Cladium . .] 
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Northern Island : Opurago and Otago, Banks and Solander ; Bay of Islands, Cun- 
ningham ; Auckland, Sinclair. This is clearly the Australian plant, though the panicle is 
very much longer than iu my Tasmanian specimens, being quite like Mueller’s Victorian. 
5. C. junceum, Br. — Lepidosperma striata, FI. N. Z. i. 279, not Br. 
Culms £-2 ft. high, densely tufted, rigid, rising from a woody scaly rhizome, 
terete, leafless, covered with a long oppressed sheath ; tip of the latter ver- 
tically flattened, sickle-shaped. Spikelets in a very short, simple or spa- 
ringly-branched, few-flowered spike, 1 in. long, 1 -flowered; bracts small, 
obtuse, oppressed. Glumes oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or awned, scaberu- 
lous at the back. Nut 3-gonous, obovoid ; top tumid, hemispherical, pube- 
l’ulous. 
Northern Island: abundant in fresh and brackish water marshes, etc., Banks and So- 
lander, etc. Also a native of Australia and Tasmania. 
6. C. Sinclairii, Hoolc.f. — Vincentia anceps, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 276. 
Culms tall, coarse, several ft. high, quite flat, £ in. broad, smooth. Leaves quite 
flat, striate, 1 in. broad ; edges sharp but not cutting. Tanicle 1 ft. long, soft, 
excessively branched, nodding; bracts sheathing; branches drooping, arising 
from smaller bracts. Spikelets small, fascicled, pale-brown, 2- or 3 -flowered. 
Lower glumes and bracts awned, striated, scaberulous. Flowers about 3, of 
which 1 only seems to ripen fruit. Stamens elongating greatly after flowering. 
Nut attenuated at both ends; sharply 3-angled at the cuspidate top, crusta- 
ceous, mottled with red, pedicel with a tuberous base. 
Northern Island : in swamps. Banks and Solander ; east coast and interior, Colon so ; 
Auckland, Sinclair ; Mercury Bay, Jolliffe. I have referred this to Cladium, into which 
the genera Baumea, Chapelliera, and Vinceniia must fall. There being a Cladium anceps 
renders it necessary to change the specific name of this. 
10. GAHKIA, Forst. 
{Including Lamfocarya, Br.) 
Tall, coarse, leafy, rigid, scabrid sedges. Culm erect, terete or 3-gonous, 
stout. Leaves very long, involute, harsh and cutting, with scabrid edges and 
points. — Spikelets excessively numerous, small, terete, 1- or 2-flowered, dis- 
posed in a terminal branched, often effuse panicle. Glumes few, imbricated 
all round the rachis, the terminal (or last 2) minute, floriferous. Bristles and 
hypogynous scales 0. Stamens 3, 4, or 6 ; filaments usually lengthening 
much after flowering, and often twisting together and holding the nut sus-, 
pended. Nut very hard, obscurely 3-gonous, sessile, obscurely thickened at 
the top. Stigmas 3 or 4, sometimes 2-fid. 
A small geuus, native of Australia, Tasmania, and the Malayan and Pacific Islands. 
Closely allied to Cladium , but very different in their more harsh habit and foliage. 
Hut of stony hardness, transversely grooved inside. Stamens 4. 
Spikelets black, J in. long. Nut pale red-brown 1. G. setifolia. 
Spikelets red-brown, J -5 iu. long. Nut pale-brown ,2. G.procera. 
Nut not transversely grooved internally. Stamens 3 or 4. (Lampocarva, Br.) 
Leaves with very slender points. Stamens 4. Nut black .... 3. G.lacera. 
Panicle 2-3 ft. long. Branches very long, pendulous. Stamens 4. 
Nut yellow 4. G.xanthocarpa, 
Culms robust, angled, scabrous. Stamens 3. Nut black , ... 5. G. arenaria , 
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