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smooth shining sheaths,which are sometimes scabrous to the touch. Culms longer or shorter than the leaves, slender, 
obtusely three-angled. Spikelets in few, sessile or pedicelled fascicles from the axil of a bracteal leaf, + inch long, 
of four to six glabrous, linear oblong, shining, concave scales; lower smaller, empty ; upper fertile. Bristles six, 
large, flat, feathery, very conspicuous. Stamens three. Style bifid. Nut trigonous. (Name from kapbos, chaff; 
in allusion to the chafly scales.) 
1. Carpha alpina, Br.; foliis scaberulis leevibusve lineari-setaceis obtusis, spiculis paucis fasciculatis 
1-floris, setis per totam longitudinem plumosis. —Br. Prodr. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Top of Ruahine range and Taupo plains, Colenso. Nelson, 
Morse’s Mountain, 4—5,000 feet, Bidwill. Chalky Bay, Lyall. 
Gen. VIII. CHAUTOSPORA, Br.. 
Spicule fasciculatee v. paniculates. Squame distiche (raro undique imbricate), plereque vacus, extima 
minores vacuze, 1-3 superiores florifere (in C. tenaw 0). Sete Aypogyne squamis breviores. Stylus 
deciduus. 
Rigid, grassy plants of Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, South Africa, and extra-tropical South America.— 
Spikelets capitate, panicled or fascicled, one- to three-flowered. Scales distichous; lower smaller, empty. Bristles 
three to six, or very numerous, shorter than the scales, none in C. tenaz. Stamens three. Style falling away from 
the turgid trigonous nut. (Name from xaırn, a hair, and omopos, a seed.) 
§ a. Scales distichous. Spikelets compressed. 
1. Cheetospora tenaz, Hook. fil.; culmis elongatis subaphyllis tereti-compressis, vaginis in laminam 
brevem subulatam culmo appressam productis, spiculis subpaniculatis erectis pedicellatis lineari-oblongis 
pallide brunneis 3-floris, squamis distichis acuminatis enervibus subciliatis, setis nullis, stylo 2-3-fido. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Dry hills, abundant, Cunningham, etc. 
Tufted, 13-2 feet high. Culms rounded and compressed, smooth, polished, slender, with long sheaths below 
that bear short subulate grooved laminee, 1 inch long. Spikelets erect, 3 inch long, panicled, few together, from 
each upper sheath, peduncles longer than the sheath. Scales pale brown, opaque, lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, 
concave, nerveless, subciliate. Bristles 0. Styles two or three. Nut turgid, with three thick angles, and the faces 
obscurely transversely waved.— Very closely allied to the following. 
2. Chzetospora Zendo, Hook. fil. ; culmis fasciculatis elongatis filiformibus canaliculatis levibus rigidis 
aphyllis, vaginis basi lamina brevi subulata culmo appressa, spiculis subpaniculatis erectis lineari-ovatis 
3-floris, squamis distichis castaneis subearinatis acuminatis, setis paucis brevibus, nuce turgida albida 
obscure 3-gona levi. Cyperus Tendo, Banks et Sol. MSS. 
Has. Northern Island. Opuragi, in wet, shrubby places, Banks and Solander. On clay hills, 
common, Sinclair, etc. 
A smaller, more slender species than C. £enav, with grooved culm, smaller dark brown spikelets, evident bristles 
tothe ovary, and a turgid, hardly angled, quite smooth-surfaced white nut. 
3. Cheetospora pauciflora, Hook. fil; culmis cespitosis filiformibus rigidis striatis basi vaginatis 
1-foliatis, folio setaceo erecto, spiculis 3-4-floris paucis supra apicem culmi paniculatim fasciculatis, pedicellis 
gracilibus, squamis distichis carinatis acuminatis glaberrimis, setis nuce bis longiore, nuce trigono pallide 
brunnea nitida lineis impressis punctatim striata. 
Has. Northern Island; bogs. Tongariro and Patia, Colenso. 
A slender, wiry species, a span to three feet high. Culms angled, striated, covered with chesnut-brown sheaths 
below, each with one short subulate grooved leaf. Panicles solitary, lateral, short, of a few pedicellate spikelets. 
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