Poa.| GRAMINEA. 901 
3-5-flowered. Two outer glumes slightly unequal, keeled, acumi- 
nate; the lower subulate-lanceolate, 1-nerved; the upper broader 
and larger, about 2 the length of the whole spikelet, lanceolate, 
3-nerved. Flowering glumes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, incurved 
at the tip, prominently 5-nerved; callus, together with the back and 
margins for half their length, clothed with crisped silky hairs ; upper 
portion of the glume scabrid. Palea 4 shorter than the glume, 
linear-oblong, bifid at the tip.—Buch. N.Z. Grasses, t. 42. Festuca 
foliosa, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.i. 99, t. 55. 
Srmwarr IsuaANnp: Herekopere Island and headlands near the South Cape, 
Kirk! Tus Snares: Kirk! Chapman! AtvcKLAND AND CAMPBELL ISLANDS: 
Abundant, Hooker, Buchanan! Kirk! Chapman! AnripopEs IsuaAnpD: Kirk ! 
Macquanrig Isuanp: Fraser, Professor Scott, A. Hamilton ! 
Hasily distinguished from all other New Zealand species by the great size, 
very broad flat leaves, and large dense panicle. It is closely allied to the Ker- 
guelen Island P. Cookii, Hook. f., and to the well-known tussock grass of the 
Falkland Islands and Fuegia, P. flabellata, Hook. f. (Dactylis c@spitosa, 
Forst.). The flowers seem to be partly if not altogether unisexual, most of the 
specimens that I have seen being females with the anthers much reduced in 
size. 
2. P. novee-zealandiz, Hack. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxv. (1903) 
381.—Perennial, tufted, innovation-shoots intravaginal or mixed. 
Culms erect, 3-18in. high, slender, glabrous, 3-noded, upper node 
about the middle of the culm. Leaves usually much shorter than 
the culms, 2-10 in. long, ;1,-+ in. broad, linear, suddenly acuminate 
at the tip, flat or those of the innovation-shoots complicate, erect, 
quite glabrous, finely striate; sheaths lax, compressed ; ligules 
ovate, acuminate, often dentate. Panicle broadly ovate to ovate- 
oblong or linear-oblong, dense, nodding or more rarely erect, 1—4in. 
long; rhachis smooth, terete; branches binate or ternate, once or 
twice divided, smooth, capillary. Spikelets pale-green or whitish- 
green, much compressed, elliptic-oblong, +—4in. long, 5-6-flowered. 
Two outer glumes slightly unequal, acuminate, glabrous; lower 
subulate-lanceolate, l-nerved ; upper longer and broader, about 
half as long as the whole spikelet or rather more, lanceolate, 
3-nerved. Flowering glumes lanceolate, acuminate, often incurved 
at the tip, usually 5-nerved, but the intermediate nerve on each 
side faint and sometimes obsolete, callus with a tuft of crisped 
woolly hairs more than half as long as the glume, remainder of 
the glume glabrous, smooth. Palea 4 shorter than tie glume, 
linear-oblong, bidentate, pubescent on the keels.—P. foliosa var. b, 
Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 338; Buch. N.Z. Grasses, t. 43. Festuca 
foliosa, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 308 (not of Fl. Antarct.). 
Var. subvestita, Hack. l.c.—Flowering glumes rather longer, clothed with 
erisp hairs in the lower 4, exterior lateral nerves more prominent. Spikelets 
often tinged with violet. 
