CnurgEgsEMAN.— On recent Additions to Flora of New Zealand. 801 
Hab. Swamps in the Rangipo desert, eastern base of Ruapehu; Mr. 
H. Tryon. 
Of this plant I have only received three small specimens. So far as 
these go, they correspond exactly with the deseription and plate in the 
Flora of Tasmania, and with Bentham's description in the Flora Australi- 
ensis; and at present I have no reason whatever to doubt the identifica- 
tion. A full series of specimens will be required, however, before the 
matter can be absolutely settled. The species is more nearly allied to 
S. fluitans than to any other of our New Zealand forms, but differs in being 
stouter, apparently not so much branched, and in the very much larger 
spikelet. Mr. Tryon informs me that it is not uncommon in ferruginous 
swamps in the Rangipo desert, associated with Scirpus cartilagineus, Pratia 
angulata, Drosera arcturi and D. spathulata, Gunnera prorepens?, and 
Utricularia monanthos. 
6. Carex devia, n. sp. 
Culms 9-18 inches high, smooth or nearly so, hardly tufted, leafy at the 
base only. Leaves shorter than the culms, very coriaceous, rigid, keeled, 
strongly grooved, 4,—i inch diameter; margins scabrid. Lower bract long 
and leafy, rest small. Spikelets 2-4; terminal one the largest, male, or 
very rarely with a few female flowers at the base, stout, clavate, 2-14 
inch long; remainder all female, variable in size, 4-14 inch long, erect, 
oblong or cylindric, upper sessile, lower very shortly pedunculate, in small 
specimens often closely approximate, in larger ones more distant, dark 
chestnut-brown or rarely blackish-brown. Glumes dark rich brown with a 
green centre, ovate, acute, emarginate or shortly bifid, the midrib produced 
into. a hispid awn of varying length.  Perigynia rather longer than the 
glumes, dark purplish-black, ovate or elliptic, compressed, unequally 
biconvex or nearly plano-convex, strongly nerved and wrinkled, margins 
entire; beak short, broad, terminated by two widely divergent teeth. 
Stigmas two. 
Hab. Mountain districts in Nelson, not uncommon above 2,500 feet 
altitude. 
This appears to be a very distinct species, and when once noticed can- 
not be confounded with any other. It may be readily identified by its 
seldom forming tufts, by its rigid and coriaceous grooved leaves, very 
stout clavate male spikelets, and by the broad conspicuously grooved and 
wrinkled perigynia. 
