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stems, narrow, 3; inch broad, erect, strict and wiry, concave in front, convex 
behind, or plano-convex, grooved, margins smooth or slightly scabrid. In- 
florescence nearly diccious or altogether so; spikelets pale, almost white, 
few flowered, sessile, collected into a linear terminal spike 3-14 inch long; 
those of the male plant with occasional female flowers or altogether uni- 
sexual; those of the female sometimes with a staminate flower at the top of 
the spikelets. Bracts short. Glumes lanceolate, thin and membranous, 
pale, acuminate or awned. Perigynia long and narrow lanceolate, plano- 
convex, nerved, tapering into a very long bidentate serrate beak. Stigmas 2. 
South Island.—Upper Waitaki, Mackenzie Plains, Lakes Tekapo and 
Pukaki, alt. 2,000-4,000 feet, T.F.C. ; Rough Ridge, alt. 3,000 feet ; Nevis 
Valley, alt. 2,000 feet; and other localities in Otago, D. Petrie! Upper 
Shotover, P. Goyen! 
A most distinct species, whose only near ally appears to be the following. 
I have given a full description of the plant, as Mr. Petrie does not allude to 
the nearly dicecious inflorescence and some other curious points. 
12. C. kaloides, Petrie, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xiii., 882. "E 
South Island.—Apparently plentiful in mountain districts throughout. 
Common in river valleys in the interior of Nelson, T.F.C.; slopes of Mount 
Torlesse, Broken River, Upper Waimakariri, Mackenzie Plains, Lakes 
Tekapo and Pukaki, and other localities in Canterbury, T.F.C.; interior of 
Otago, plentiful, D. Petrie! Altitudinal range 800-3,500 feet. 
Allied to C. viridis, but easily separated by its larger size, less strict 
habit, broader, flatter, and more grassy leaves, and larger often loosely 
branched panicles. The Nelson specimens as a rule have much larger, 
more compound, and more numerously flowered panicles than those from 
Canterbury and Otago, but I find no other difference. I have never seen 
specimens wholly unisexual, as in C. viridis, but the male flowers vary 
greatly in number ; in some cases the panicles being almost entirely pistil- 
late, while in others a considerable portion of the upper spikelets are male. 
C. kaloides and C. viridis are sharply marked off by their narrow lanceo- 
late and long-beaked plano-convex perigynia ; none of the other New Zea- 
land species even approaching them in this respect. Both are peculiar 
to the colony. 
Section III.—Spikelets separate, usually stalked, unisexual; the male 
spikelets constantly uppermost, rarely mixed with female flowers; the 
lower spikelets all female, or frequently with a few male flowers at the base 
or apex. 
18. C. vulgaris, Fries, var. gaudichaudiana, Boott, TU. Car., iv., 169, 
t. 567; Benth. Fl. Austr., vii., 442; F. Muell. Fragm., viii. 257. C. gau- 
dichaudiana, Kunth, Enum., ii., 417; Hook. fil. Fl. Tasm., ii., 99, t. 151, 4.; 
Handbk, N.Z., Flora, 813. 
