312 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Graminee. 
1. Gymnostichum gracile, Hook. fil.; culmis gracilibus vaginisque levibus, foliis planis angustis 
elongatis superne asperulis, spica elongata subflexuosa gracili, spiculis 20-40 distichis sessilibus, glumis 
setiformibus v. nullis, flosculis 2-8 hispidulis inferiore breviter secundo longe pedicellato plerumque 
pedicello tertii accedente, palea inferiore 5-nervi (lateralibus obscuris) in aristam rectam rigidam palea 
breviore angustata. (Tas. LXX.) 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands: woods at Patea and Tarauera villages, Colenso; Akaroa, Raoul. 
Slender, erect, 3-4 feet high. —Culms and sheaths smooth. Leaves narrow, flat, rough above. Spike 4-1 
inches long, slender, erect. Rachis flexuous, very flat, edges ciliate. Spikelets with awns 4-2 inch long, sessile, 
solitary, twice as long as the internodes. Gwmes 0, or two rigid sete. Florets two or three; upper often imperfect, 
with the pedicel of a third at its base; lower shortly pedicelled, secund, with a pedicel half as long as the upper 
palea. Lower palea narrow, five-nerved, rough with short hairs, produced into a straight awn one-fourth to one-half 
as long as itself. Scales ovate, entire or obliquely bilobed, ciliate. Ovary with a bristly pencil of hairs at the top. 
—PraTE LXX. Fig. 1, spikelet with subulate glumes; 2, spikelet without glumes; 3 and 4, scales; 5, stamen ; 
6, ovary :—all magnified. 
Gen. XXX. ZOYSIA, Willd. 
Spicule uniflore; flore sessili. Guma 1, antica, carinata, marginibus basi connatis. Palee 2, 
membranaceee : inferior uninervis, carinato-complicata; superior brevis v. 0, enervis, carinata. Squamule 0. 
Caryopsis libera.—Gramen pusillum, rigidum; foliis distichis, canaliculatis ; spica simplici, racemosa, con- 
tinua ; spiculis imbricatis. 
A small, rigid, wiry, creeping Grass, with short leafy culms and a terminal spicate raceme.— Leaves distichous, 
channelled. Spikelets one-flowered; flower sessile. Glume one, keeled, compressed, the margins connate, open 
above. Palee two, membranous; lower keeled, compressed, ovate-oblong, one-nerved ; upper short, nerveless, keeled, 
or wanting. Scales 0.  Caryopsis free. (Name in honour of Baron Charles de Zoys, a Carniolian ecclesiastic and 
collector of plants.) 
l. Zoysia pungens, Willd.—Br. Prodr. Kunth, Agrost. p. 471. Agrostis Matrella, Zinn. Mant. 
Rottboellia uniflora, A. Ounn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands: Bay of Islands, abundant, Sinclair, ete. ; Motucka valley, near 
Nelson, Monro. 
A curious little Grass, a native of New Zealand, Australia, India, and the Mauritius.—Culms woody below, 
there creeping horizontally, sending downwards long wiry roots, and upwards short divided branches, 1-2 inches 
long, that bear distichous, spreading, subulate, generally involute leaves. Upper part of culm naked, slender, 1 inch 
long. Spike small, of four to six closely appressed, imbricate, sessile or shortly pedicelled spikelets, arranged on a 
flattened flexuous rachis. 
END OF VOLUME I. 
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER, 
LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS. 
