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A rather short sparsely-tufted grass, 4 in. high or less, but occasionally 
somewhat taller. Stems few, branching from the base and more or less 
stoloniferous ; leaves + lin. (2-5 ст.) long, about equalling their broad 
thin scarious sheaths, narrow-linear, flat or more or less complicate, faintly 
tuft of long hairs at the back and the base, scarious at the edges and 
‘specially at the tips; palea nearly as long as its glume, ciliate along the 
nerves and shortly bifid at the tip. 
Hab.—Top of the Craigieburn Range, Canterbury Alps, circa 6,000 ft. : 
Arnold Wall! I have seen a few taller pieces of what seems to be the same 
Авт. 41.—Notes on Pittosporum obcordatum. 
By G. О. K. SAINSBURY. 
Communicated by T. F. Cheeseman. 
[Read before the Auckland Institute, 19th December, 1921; received by Editor, 21st 
December, 1921 ; issued separately, 22nd May, 1923.] 
remarkable as a striking example of discontinuous distribution. So extreme 
was the case censidered that it was suggested that Raoul, who also 
collected at the Bay of Islands, had made a mistake in the habitat of the 
