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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-lf 

 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. 

 Order IX. JUNCE^l. 

 Genus 1. Juncus, Linn. 

 1. Juncus macrostigma, sp. nov. 



Plant large, loosely crespitose in rather small isolated clumps, erect, dull 

 green, sub-glaucescent, glabrous but not shining. Culms 3-5 feet high, 

 cylindrical, stout, J-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 2-3 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 3-4 main ones, one being much 

 longer (2-3 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 3, 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 tlie 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. 

 Order XL CYPERACE^. 

 Genus 13. Uncinia, Persoon. 

 1. Uncinia nigra, sp. nov. 



Plant large, densely csespitose. Culms stout, erect, 3 feet long, trique- 

 trous, smooth. Leaves of equal length, J inch wide, squarrose, very 

 acuminate with hair-like tips, many nerved, margins finely and closely 

 serrulate, glabrous below, scaberulous on upper surface, keeled, generally 

 4 leaves on a culm, sheathing below 6-12 inches from base ; colour light 



