Restiacee. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 267 
the lateral spikes. Restio Jlexuosus, Br., possibly belongs to this genus, but I have not seen its female flowers or 
fruit. (Name from xadwpodos, a Restio, according to the author of the genus.) 
1. Calorophus elongata, Lab.; culmis basi subfastigiatim ramosis, ramulis gracilibus elongatis 
flexuosis, vaginis apicibus patulis subulatis, spicis vaginis immersis, Y 4-6-floris bractea obtusa barbata 
suffultis, glumis 6 linearibus squama pungente involutis, 9 spicis 3-floris, glumis brevibus, floribus remotis, 
inferiore 2-glumi, bracteola obtusa barbata, czeteris 6-glumis bracteola acuta v. pungente.—Za2. Fl. Nov. 
Holl. v. 2. p. 1. t. 228. Restio lateriflorus, Br. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island. Great Barrióre Island, Sinclair. Swamps at Wangarei, Colenso. 
A common South Australian and Tasmanian plant, 2 feet high, branched from the base; branches green, 
slender, flexuose, slightly compressed or angled. Sheaths 4 inch long, with spreading subulate points. Flowers in 
Short spikes, sunk in the sheaths ; males four to six, crowded, subtended by an oblong blunt woolly braet. Glumes 
six, linear, acuminate, enclosed in a scale with a pungent point. Female spike more exserted, three-flowered, lower 
of two glumes with a bearded blunt bract ; upper of six glumes, with acute or pungent bracts. 
3. Calorophus minor, Hook. fil.; fastigiatim ramosus, ramis brevibus filiformibus gracilibus striatis, 
spiculis Y sub-2-floris, fl. 9 subsolitariis. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Bogs, base of Tongariro, Colenso. Top of Morse Mount, 6500 
feet, Bidwill. Port Preservation, Lyall. 
A span to 2 feet high; smaller and more slender and branched than the last. Stems ascending, much branched ; 
branches short. Tops of sheaths erect. Male spikelets two-flowered; female flowers solitary, pedicellate.— Dr. 
Lyall's specimen is not in flower; it is rather more robust than the rest, with a large beard within the sheaths. 
In one of Mr. Bidwill'sIfind a ripe fruit of what I take for a male plant: it occupies an upper sheath of the culm. 
This is also a common alpine Tasmanian plant: I doubt its being distinct from C. elongata, Lab. 
3. Calorophus? ramis fastigiatis strictis erectis levibus estriatis, vaginis longe acuminatis. 
Has. Chatham Island, Dieffenbach. 
I regret not having this very distinct-looking plant in flower or fruit. Stems 2 feet high, much branched ; 
branches quite erect, smooth, round, polished, not striated nor flexuose. Sheaths with acuminate points. —A much 
more robust plant than either of the former, and possibly belonging to a different genus. 
Gen. IIT. GAIMARDIA, Gaud. 
Spicula terminalis, 1-2-flora. Spatha bivalvis, inferior superiorem minorem amplectens. Stamina 
2; antheris peltatis. Ovaria 2, in unum coalita; stylis 2, exsertis. Utriculus membranaceus, 2-locularis, 
2-valvis, 2-spermus. 
A genus of three species, one found in New Zealand, another in Lord Auckland’s Group, and the third in 
Fuegia and the Falklands. G. setacea forms large patches on the ground, resembling moss. —Everywhere guite 
smooth, bright green. Stems densely tufted, 1-2 inches long. Leaves imbricated, setaceous, } inch long, acuminate, 
with broad, membranous, often laciniated sheaths. Flowers minute, solitary, on an erect terminal peduncle + inch 
long. Perianth of two bracts, outer or lower enclosing the upper, coriaceous. Stamens 2. Ovaries 2, united, each 
with a long style. Fruit membranous, 2-celled. (Name in honour of M. Paul Gaimard, surgeon and naturalist to 
Admiral Freycinet’s voyage.) 
1. Gaimardia setacea, Hook. fil.; foliis setaceis, vaginis membranaceis glaberrimis. 
Haz. Southern extreme of New Zealand. Port Preservation, Lyall. 
Oss. The G. ciliata of Auckland’s Island (Fl. Antarct. p. 86) closely resembles this, but has blunt leaves with 
ciliated sheaths. 
