Petrie.—Deseription of new Plants. 363 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 19th July, 1881.] 
Carex wakatipu, n 
i. A czspitose small species, much branched at the base. 
rt Leaves usually broad, flat, much longer than the culms, slightly scabrid 
: at the margins. Culms much shorter than the leaves, 3-angled, smooth, 
invested by the sheathing bases of the leaves. Spikelets 4-6, erect, lower 
shortly peduncled, upper sessile; uppermost male, others male at the top 
only. Bracts long and leaf-like. Glumes ovate-oblong, brownish, mem- 
braneous, bifid, with a rather long hispid awn, being a continuation of the 
strong green nerve. Ubtricles turgid, biconvex, nerved, shortly bifid at the 
smooth apex but scarcely produced into a beak. Stigmas 2. 
Hab.—Ben Lomond, near Queenstown, 3—5,000 feet. 
I have a good series of depauperized forms in some of which the spike- 
lets are reduced in number, and conspicuously in length and stoutness. 
Carex goyeni, D. sp. 
A tufted strong-growing, dark-green, species. Culms stout, 3-angled, 
almost smooth, a foot high or less. 
Leaves longer than the culms, flat, broad, keeled, seabrid at the margins. 
Bracts long, leafy, flat. Spikelets 7 to 9, stout, cylindric, erect, 1 inch 
long or less; the lower somewhat distant, peduncled; upper sessile, approxi- 
mate ; uppermost male in the lower half, female above, others female 
a few ‘tial flowers at the bottom of the lower spikelets. Glumes nearly as 
long as the utricles, rounded-ovate, membraneous, brown, shortly awned. 
Utricles turgid, divaricating, pale, shining, nerveless, with a short bifid 
beak which is smooth or slightly seabrid at the margins. Styles 2, short. 
Hab.—Head of Lake Wakatipu, 1,100 feet. 
This species is easily distinguished by its robust habit, its broad flat 
a leaves exceeding the culms, its short spikelets, and the absence of any 
_ &ntirely male spikelet. It is named in honour of Mr. P. Goyen, who has 
__ been for some time engaged in work calculated to throw considerable light 
0n the alpine flora of the §.W. of Otago. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 22nd November, 1881.] 
Carex longiculmis, D. sp. 
A tall cespitose species, somewhat similar to Carex trifida, Cavanilles, 
but more slender lax and tall. 
Leaves shorter than the culms, pale green, } of an inch broad, usually 
flat, keeled, smooth save at the margins near the top, the lower part with 
an expanded sheath ending in a truncated ligule. Culms tall, rounded, 2- 
cP eee Bracts long, leaf-like Salil se Ge ns one 
SAnawinnaAet male only ; . 
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