110 Descriptive Characters of 
and J. Hooker Oreobolus pectinatus from Lord Auckland’s 
Group, Campbell’s Island and New Zealand. Thus, it ap- 
pears, that all these islands possess only an isolated represen- 
tant of the genus. 
30. Carex Polyantha. 
Tall; leaves broad-linear, nearly flat, keeled, with the erect 
triquetrous stem a little scabrous ; male spikes 4—5, elongate- 
cylindrical, the lowest ramified by several short ones; female 
spikes 3—5, very long, cylindrical, the lowest long peduncu- 
late with remote flowers at the base ; lower bracts very long 
foliaceous, auriculate but not vaginate at the base; stigmas 
two; fruit brown, ovate, sessile, glabrous, dotted, on both 
sides convex and distinctly streaked, abruptly terminated into 
a very short bidentate beak, as long as the lanceolate-subu- 
late black bracteoles; caryopsis compressed, round-oyate, 
straw-yellow, shining, even. 
In the vallies of the Upper Mitta Mitta, near Mount 
Hotham. 
More allied to Carex acuta and paludosa, than to any of 
the Australian, Antarctic and New Zealandian species. 
31. Carex cephatotes. 
(Sect. Psyllophora.) 
Dwarf; root fibrous; leaves narrow-linear, channelled, 
scabrid, as long as the smooth thin triquetrous stem; spike 
terminal, solitary, androgynous, dense-flowered, roundish- 
ovate, generally bractless, with male flowers at the summit; 
stigmas two; fruit spreading, lanceolote-ovate, very short 
stalked, terminated by a short undivided beak, nerveless, even, 
green with black-brown tip, slightly convex at the back, 
longer than the brown ovate acute persistent one-nerved 
bracteoles; basal arista wanting; caryopsis round-oyate, 
tapering into the base, brownish-yellow, even, shining. i 
On the grassy summits of the Munyang Mountains, mois- 
tened by the perpetual glaciers, or on the most elevated 
springs. 
One of the handsomest species of a large cosmopolitan 
genus, allied to Carex capitata, from Kuropean and Asiatic 
Alps. 
