Calorojpkus .] 
X. RESTIACEjE. 
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stigmas 2 or 3, deciduous. Nut hard, surrounded at the base with the per- 
sistent perianth. 
A small Australian, Tasmanian, and New Zealand genus. 
C. elongata, Lab.; — FI. N. Z. i. 267. Culms prostrate, 1-3 ft. long, 
excessively branched from the base ; branches flexuose, slender, semiterete, 
not striated, in. diam. ; sheaths | in. long, with spreading, subulate 
points. Male: Spikelets 4-6-flowered ; bract obtuse, bearded. Perianth 
of 6 linear leaflets, enclosed in pungent glumes. Anthers linear. Female : 
Spikelets 3-flowered. Flowers remote, lower with 2, upper with 6 leaflets. 
Styles long, tortuous. — Lab. FI. Nov. FIoll. ii. 7. t. 228. 
Var. /3. minor. Shorter, more slender. Male spikelet 2-flowered. Female usually 1- 
flowered. — C. minor, FI. N. Z. i. 267. 
Northern Island: Great Barrier Island, Sinclair; swamps at Wangerei, Colenso. 
Middle Island : Port Preservation, Lyall. Var. j8, base of Tongariro, Colenso ; Lake 
Tennyson, alt. 4400 ft., Travers ; top of Morse mountain, alt. 6500 ft., Bidwill. Both 
varieties are Australian and Tasmaniau plants. 
In the ‘ New Zealand Flora ’ I have referred a third New Zealand plant from Chatham 
Island, collected by Dielfenbach, which is out of flower, provisionally to this genus ; it has 
erect, much-branched steins, 2 ft. high, smooth and polished, neither striate nor flexuose ; 
sheaths with acuminate points. 
3. GAIMARDIA, Gaudichaud. 
Very small, moss-like, densely-tufted plants, glabrous, bright green. Leaves 
imbricate, setaceous, with broad membranous sheaths. — Spikelets minute, on 
a short terminal scape, of 2 glumes enclosing 1 or 2 unisexual flowers. Pe- 
rianth 0. Stamens 2. Ovaries 2, connate; stigmas 2, filiform. Capsule 
membranous, 2-celled, 2-valved, 2-seeded. 
A small genus found iu the New Zealand islands and Antarctic America. 
Leaves setaceous, with acicular points ; sheaths glabrous 1. G. setacea. 
Leaves setaceous, obtuse ; sheaths ciliated 2. G. ciliata. 
1. G. setacea, Hoolc.f. FI. N. Z. i. 267. Tufted, forming large moss- 
like patches ; stems 1-2 in. high. Leaves setaceous, imbricating, in. 
long, with long acicular points, and broad, membranous, often lacerate sheaths 
produced upwards. Scape erect, in. long. Outer scale larger, -jL in. long, 
convolute, linear-oblong, obtuse ; inner narrow, with a terete tip. 
Middle Island : Port Preservation, Lyall. 
2. G. ciliata, Hoolc.f. ; — FI. Antarct. i. 86. Very similar to G. setacea , 
but the leaves are obtuse, and the membranous sheaths excessively ciliated. 
Lord Auckland's group, forming dense moss-like tufts on the hills, J. B. H. 
4. ALEPYRUM, Br. 
Very small, tufted, moss-like herbs. Leaves subulate, soft, with broad, 
membranous white sheaths. — Spikelets minute, on a short terminal scape, of 2 
glumes enclosing 1 or 2 flowers. Stamens 1 or 2 ; filament very long and 
slender. Ovaries 2-18, connate or free; stigmas as many, free or connate, 
filiform. Capsules 2-18, membranous, 1-seeded. 
A small Australian, Tasmanian, and New Zealand genus, which should probably be united 
with Gaimardia. 
