956 Transactions. — Botany. 
two tapering styles. Fruit minute ovate turgid, somewhat compressed, 
one-celled, ribs indistinct. 
I think there can be little doubt about including the plant just described 
in the genus Hemiphues, Certainty about its position cannot of course be 
attained until flowering specimens are examined. The fruit is minute, and 
not easy to dissect so as to show its structure plainly. Still I am satisfied 
that it is one-celled. 
Whatever surprise may be felt at the discovery of a Hemiphues in 
Stewart Island, should be greatly lessened by the fact that another Tas- 
manian alpine plant, viz., Liparophyllum gunnii, grows abundantly side by 
side with it. 
By way of posteript I may add that I have another apparently umbellifer- 
ous plant, of a most anomalous character, gathered in the same localities as 
Hemiphues nove-zealandig, which may prove another species of that genus. It 
has a very different general appearance, but the involucral leaves and one- 
celled fruit closely resemble Hemiphues. The specimens are long past flower, 
and the fruits, from which the stylopodia have become detached, have fallen 
off nearly all my specimens. As I cannot indicate the genus, or even the 
natural order (for it might be a composite plant) with any certainty from 
the few poor specimens in my possession, I shall not now attempt any 
partial description of it. 
Art. LIL-— Description of a new Species of Ehrharta. By D. Perr, M.A. 
Plate X. 
(Read before the Otago Institute, 10th February, 1880.] 
Ehrharta thomsoni, n.s. 
A snort tufted grass; culm flattened, branched, 2-5 inches long. Leaves 
distichous, glabrous, flat or concave, about 4 inch long, deeply and closely 
grooved ; sheaths imbricating, broad, pale, ligule none. 
Panicle contracted, erect, of 2-4 spikelets, on short slender stalks. 
Empty glumes, four; lower pair short, broad, obtuse, nearly equal; upper 
pair thrice the engl of the lower, lanceolate, laterally compressed, nearly 
equal, silky at the base, 8—5-nerved, the nerves coalescing to form an acute 
awn-like tip, scabrid on the keel. Flowering glume shorter, three-nerved, 
bluntly and shortly acuminate. Palea linear rather coriaceous. Scales 
large, broadly acute, entire. Grain enclosed in the flowering glume. 
Stamens and styles not seen, — - 
