886 GRAMINES. (Danthonia. 
duced into short awns; intermediate awn from between the 
divisions, $—# in. long, stout, erect or spreading, convex or slightly 
flattened at the base, rarely twisted. Palea linear-oblong, 2-nerved, 
ciliate on the nerves.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 352. Bromus antarcticus, 
Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 97, t. 54. Danthonia antarctica var. elata, 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 302. 
Nortru Isnanp: In various localities near the sea, rare and local. Auck- 
land—Between Whangaroa and Mongonui, 7. F’. C.; Bay of Islands, Kirk! 
T. F. C.; Maunganui Bluff, Petrie! Wellington—Hills near Wellington, 
Stephenson; near Cape Palliser, Buchanan! AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL 
Istanps: Abundant on the hills, Hooker, Buchanan! Kirk ! 
Ido not feel at all certain that the Auckland and Campbell Islands plant, 
originally described by Hooker as Bromus antarcticus, has been rightly merged 
by him with the North Island D. bromoides. It is much larger and stouter, 
with larger spikelets containing more numerous florets, and often forms tussocks 
3-4 ft. high, attaining a size almost equal to that of D. Raouwlii, whereas the 
typical bromoides is rarely more than 18in. high. If further investigation 
should prove it to be distinct, there seems to be no reason why Hooker’s name 
of D. antarctica (Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 302) should not be reapplied to it, for although 
he also included the plant now known as D. Cunninghamii it was as a separate 
variety, the Auckland Islands plant being evidently treated as the type of the 
species. 
4. D. Raoulii, Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. 246.— Densely tufted, 
forming large brownish-green tussocks 2-5 ft. high. Culms stout or 
slender, smooth, often branched at the base. Leaves numerous, 
longer or shorter than the culms, variable in width at the base, 
gradually narrowed into long filiform points, strongly involute and 
rush-like when dry, coriaceous, smooth and polished on the back, 
ribbed on the inner face; margins smooth, glabrous or pilose just 
above the ligules; sheaths brownish, much broader than the blade, 
often lax and scarious towards the base, coriaceous above, glabrous 
or sparsely pubescent; ligules reduced to a transverse band of short 
dense hairs. Panicle variable in size, 4-18 in. long, lax; branches 
few or many, divided, slender, filiform, smooth and glabrous; 
pedicels long, often silky towards the tips. Spikelets 4-?in. long 
without the awns, 4-10-flowered. Two empty glumes unequal, 
from 4-2 the length of the spikelet, ovate-lanceolate, the lower 
3-nerved, the upper 5-nerved, the lateral nerves usually short. 
Flowering glumes with long silky hairs at the base and on the 
margins for half their length or more, often also fringed on the 
lower part of the back, deeply bifid at the tip, the divisions usually 
produced into short scabrid awns, 7—9-nerved; central awn long, 
1tin., straight or recurved, flattened and usually twisted at the 
base. Palea rather shorter than the glume, 2-nerved, silky on the 
nerves.—Buch. N.Z. Grasses, t. 30. D. rigida, Raoul, Chow, 12; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 303, t. 69a (not of Steud.). 
Var. flavescens, Hack. MSS.—More robust; culms often 3 in. diam at the 
base. Leaves broader; sheaths sometimes 4—?in. across; lamina +4 in. at the 
base. Spikelets rather larger.—D. flavescens, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 332; 
Buch. N.Z. Grasses, t. 32. 
