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shaped, spreading, orange-coloured with dark margins; lobes very obtuse ; 
8 seeds in each berry; seeds black, smooth, shining, gibbous, curved, 1-13 
lines long, sharply and obsoletely and variously angled. 
Obs. The coloured thick and spreading calyx of this species when the 
fruit is ripe has a very peculiar and novel appearance. 
Orver IX. JUNCEA. 
Genus 1. Juncus, Linn. 
1, Juncus macrostigma, sp. nov. 
Plant large, loosely cæspitose in rather small isolated clumps, erect, dull 
green, sub-glaucescent, glabrous but not shining. Culms 8-5 feet high, 
cylindrical, stout, l-inch diameter, tips acuminate and sharp, very finely 
striate, pith continuous, each culm with several (4-5) membranaceous 
sheaths at the base, outer ones very small, innermost 8-10 inches long, 
appressed, very obtuse with a long hair-like mucro 2-8 lines long, sulcate, 
pale green above dark brown below; flowers lateral, numerous, pale, pedi- 
celled and sessile, in close cymose heads and in sub-panicles on long sub- 
compressed and rigid peduncles, generally 8-4 main ones, one being much 
longer (2-8 inches) than the rest; bracts long, awned ; bracteoles numerous, 
short, broadly obovate, sub-acute, sometimes acuminate, clasping, rugulose, 
pale; perianth lobes acute sub-acuminate, pale green with white membra- 
nous margins; stamens 6, anthers bright yellow; style short, distinct; 
stigmas 8, very long, stout, erect, twisted, spiral, plumose, light reddish- 
pink; capsule ovoid, pale, reddish at tips, shining, longer than perianth ; 
seeds numerous, small, brown, turgid, oblong, irregular in shape, somewhat 
sub-lunate and gibbous, very finely striate and reticulated, testa produced 
at each end. 
Hab. Sides of water-courses, Seventy-mile Bush, between Norsewood 
and Matamau, County of Waipawa; 1882: W.C. With other Junci, but 
not like them plentiful; flowering January and February. 
Obs. In the flowering season its head of flowers presents a striking and 
pretty appearance, from their large and coloured pink stigmas and bright 
yellow anthers; very different from all our other Junci. Its affinity is, I 
think, with J. vaginatus, Br., and J. pseudo-cyperus, Linn. 
Orver XI. CYPERACEJE. 
Genus 18. Uncinia, Persoon. 
acuminate with hair-like tips, many nerved, margins finely and closely 
serrulate, glabrous below, seaberulous on upper surface, keeled, generally 
4 leaves on a eulm, sheathing below 6-12 inches from base; colour light 
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