20 PASPALUM DISTICHUM. 



Isthmus of Auckland; one of these (quoting from " Lindley's Vegetable King- 

 dom," p. 113), is " Paspalum exile, a species common on the West Coast of Africa, 

 and from which a fine-grained com is gathered and sold there under the name of 

 Fundi." 



This species would, in addition to improving the pasture, furnish a large food- 

 supply for native wild fowl and introduced game birds, the millets being often 

 sown in copses in England for that purpose. DISTRIBUTION IN NEW ZEALAND : 

 NORTH ISLAND: BAY OF ISLANDS Cunningham ; AUCKLAND 

 Sinclair ; WAIKATO and GREAT BARRIER ISLAND Kirk ; TITIRANGI 

 Cheeseman ; KAWAU Buchanan. 



Reference to Plate X. B : Fig. 1 . Plant. 2, 2'. Spikelet open and closed. 

 3. Palea with feathery stigmas and stamens. 4. Nervation of empty glumes. 

 5. Nervation of flowering glume. 6. Nervation of Palea. 7, Ovary with feathery 

 stigmas and stamens. 8. Scale. 9, 9'. Grain, front and side views. 



