478 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Gramina. 



On the main islands the species occurs only on littoral rocks and cliffs. Its 

 occurrence at 1,000 ft. in the Auckland Islands is unexpected, but salt-bearing spray 

 is doubtless conveyed to all the higher parts of these stormy islands. 



Poa ramosissima, Hook. f. 



Poa ramosissima, Hook, f., Fl. Antarct., i, 101. 



Auckland Islands ; B. C. Aston ! J. S. Tennant ! L. Cockayne ! H. C. Field ! 

 Campbell Island ; W. R. Chambers ! H. M. Laing ! 



So far as is known, endemic in the Auckland and Campbell Islands. 



Poa antipoda, sp. nov. 



Gramen gracile, foliosum, subrepens, ramosum. Culmi graciles, infra decum- 

 bentes, 2-5 dcm. longi, striati, leves, panicula tenus foliis vestiti ; nodis subfuscis, 

 constrictis, striatis. 



Folia paullo remota, longe vaginantia, plus minus 3 dcm. longa (folio summo 

 paniculam aequante), striata, glabra, tenuia, plana, linearia, gradatim apice tenus 

 attenuata ; ligula lata, oblongo-acuta, scariosa,, plus minus lacera. 



Panicula 2 dcm. longa, anguste oblonga ; rachis gracilis ; rami complures, 

 capillares, simplices aut compositi, stricti, scabridi, plerumque multos flores gerentes, 

 rachi alternatim in circa sex fasciculis insiti. Spiculae parvae, 3 mm. longae, anguste 

 ovatae, compressae, 3 (rarius 4) flosculos gerentes ; pedicellis brevibus, scabridis. 



Glumae vacuae inaequales, spiculo dimidio breviores, membranaceae, ovato- 

 lanceolatae, acutae, glabrae aut leviter scabriusculae ; carina scabrida ; gluma 

 inferior 1-nervata, superior 3-nervata. 



Flosculi paullo remoti, sessiles. 



Glumae florigerae anguste ovatae, acutae, membranaceae, glabrae aut leviter 

 scabriusculae ; 5-nervatae, basi et dorso parce lanatae ; carina scabrida. 



Palea gluma fiorigera parum brevior. 



Stamina et pistillum parva, palea dimidio breviora. 



Auckland Islands ; F. R. Chapman ! H. C. Field ! Campbell Island ; W. R. 

 Chambers ! Antipodes Islands ; T. Kirk ! 



The present species is very closely allied to Poa trivialis, L. Endemic in the 

 subantarctic islands mentioned above. 



Poa aucklandica, sp. nov. 



Gramen caespitosum, tenue, breve, permultis fibrosis radicibus praeditum. 



Culmi a basi ramosi, gracillimi, 12-16 cm. longi, foliis confertis vestiti. 



Folia culmis subaequilonga, a parte inferiore angusta, superne setacea ; ligula 

 oblonga, plus minus lacera. 



Panicula anguste oblonga, 5 cm. longa, 1^-2 cm. lata, flores paucos gerens ; 

 rachis gracillima, scabrida ; ramulis paniculae paucis, capillaribus, teretibus, leviter 

 scabridis, curvatis, apice incrassatis. 



Spiculae obovatae, glabrae, compressae, pallidae, 7 mm. longae. 



Glumae vacuae floriferis similes, fere aequales, spiculis tertia parte breviores, 

 lanceolatae, acutae, membranaceae, 3-nervatae. 



