Danthonia.) GRAMINEA. 885 
base. Palea nearly as long as the glume, linear-oblong.—Buch. 
N.Z. Grasses, t. 29. D. antarctica var. laxiflora, Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zei. i. 302. D. rigida, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 303, t. 694 
(not of Raoul). D. pentaflora, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. (1884) 
343. Agrostis pilosa, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 254 (not of A. Rich.). 
NortH anp SourH Isnanps, STEWART IsLAND: From the Bay of Islands 
southwards, but often local or absent from large districts. Sea-level to 
3500 ft. 
A handsome species, often attaining a large size. It is distinguished 
from all the forms of D. Haouli by the flatter leaves, which are often softly 
pilose on the sheaths and margins, and by the rather smaller spikelets with a 
straight subulate awn, not flattened nor twisted at the base. 
2. D. ovata, Buch. N.Z. Grasses, t. xxix. 2.—Culms 14-2 ft. 
high, pilose below. Leaves 10-12 in. long, narrow, involute, pilose ; 
ligule wanting or reduced to a narrow line of short hairs with a tuft 
of longer ones on each side. Panicle 3—4in. long, erect, ovate; 
branches alternate, 1-I4in. long. Spikelets alternate on the 
branches, $in. long, 4—6-flowered. Two outer glumes subequal, 
3-nerved. Flowering glumes silky at the base, fringed on the 
margins and back with pencils of short hairs, 9-nerved, 2-fid at 
the tip, the divisions produced into short awns; central awn 
straight, not flattened nor twisted at the base. Palea bifid, 
margins with long straggling hairs. 
SourH Istanp: Otago—Mount Eglinton, Southland, J. Morton. 
The above description is an abstract of Mr. Buchanan’s, the plant being 
unknown tome. It appears to differ from D. Cunninghamii in the smaller size, 
smaller panicle, and, according to Mr. Buchanan’s plate, in the numerous 
separate tufts of short hairs on the margins and back of the flowering glume. 
3. D. bromoides, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 303, t. 684.—Densely 
tufted, forming tussocks 1-4 ft. high. Culms stout, often as thick 
as the little finger at the base, quite glabrous, leafy throughout. 
Leaves longer or shorter than the culms, involute, gradually nar- 
rowed into very slender almost filiform points, coriaceous, smooth, 
polished, deeply striate; margins smooth, often pilose with long 
hairs towards the base; sheaths long, pale, compressed, grooved, 
margins scarious ; ligules reduced to a transverse band of short 
densely set silky hairs. Panicle short, ovate-lanceolate or ovate- 
oblong, contracted, densely many-flowered, 4-6in. long; rhachis 
glabrous, angled; branches short, close, suberect, 1-3in. long. 
Spikelets pedicelled, about #in. long without the awns, rather . 
broad, oblong or linear-oblong, 4—10-flowered, the upper flower 
usually imperfect. ‘Two outer glumes about 2 the length of the spike- 
let, unequal, lanceolate, obscurely 3-5-nerved. Flowering glumes 
clothed in their lower half with long silky hairs on the margins and 
back, 7—9-nerved, sharply 2-fid at the tip, the divisions often pro- 
