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Juneus pauciflorus, n. s. 
A small densely tufted species. Leaves 4-1 inch long, with broad 
sheathing bases, linear acuminate, flat, shorter than the culms. Culms 
simple, 1-2 inches high, leafy at the base only, 1-5 flowered ; involucral 
leaves ovate, perianth segments lanceolate, acuminate, with membranous 
margins. Stamens 8; stigmas 8. Fruit ovate, prismatic, equalling the 
perianth, faintly 3-angled. 
ab.: South Island: Broken River, Canterbury, 2,000 feet. 
The peculiar habit at once distinguishes this from all other New Zea- 
land species. . The capsule resembles J. nove zealandie, Hook., f., from 
which it differs in the flat radical leaves and simple culms. 
CYPERACES. 
Cladium huttoni, n. 8. 
Culms slender, 3-5 feet high, glabrous, terete, wiry, striate, pith con- 
tinuous. Leaves terete, subulate, with broad sheathing bases, finely stri- 
ated. Panicle elongated, 10-18 inches long, drooping, lower branches dis- 
tant, with spathaceous, membranous, acuminate bracts; spikelets sessile in 
rather loose fascicles, 4 inch long; glumes ovate-lanceolate, membranous, 
acute. Nut ovoid, 8-ribbed, smooth. 
Hab.: North Island: Whangape, Waikare, and Wahi Lakes, Lower 
Waikato; Tikitapu Lake, Taupo. 
Allied to C. glomeratum, Br., but at once distinguished by its drooping 
habit, open panicle, and small florets. 
Gahnia rigida, n. 8. 
Densely tufted, culms leafy at base, harsh and rigid, erect, 3 feet high. 
Leaves 2-3 feet long, convolute, with drooping points and cutting margins, 
lower surface excessively scabrid. Panicle erect, branches numerous, short, 
strict, erect, spikelets crowded. Glumes coriaceous, outer longer than the 
spikelets, awned, margins membranous; upper glumes lanceolate, acute, 
with a stout nerve serrated at the back. Stamens 5. Nut ovate, brown, or 
slightly mottled, narrowed at both ends, with 4 furrows on the outside, 
transversely grooved within. 
b.: South Island: Between Ross and Hokitika; near the Junction 
Hotel on the Christchurch-road; between Hokitika and Marsden; near 
Greymouth, Westland ; Valley of the Grey ; near Square-town ; Nelson. 
Allied to G. setifolia, Hook, f., from which it is distinguished by its erect 
panicle, and larger furrowed nuts, transversely grooved within. The nut 
resembles that of G. procera, Forst., from which it is separated by its habit, 
densely branched panicle, and smaller glumes. 
Gahnia hectori, n. 8. 
Culms 2-8 feet high, sparingly leafy, leaves flat, panicle slender, droop- 
