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membranous, 3-nerved, the upper one shorter than the flowering glume 
above it. Flowering glumes clothed with long silky hairs at the base and 
along the lower half of the margins, glabrous elsewhere, 7-9-nerved, deeply 
2-fid at the tip with the points produced into short awns; awn from 
between the lobes, about din. long, straight or recurved, not flattened 
nor twisted at the base. Palea nearly as long as the glume, linear- 
oblong.— Buch. N.Z. Grasses (1879) t. 29; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
884. D. antarctica var. laxiflora Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 302. 
D. rigida Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 303, t. 694 (not of Raoul). 
D. pentaflora Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 343. Agrostis pilosa 
A. Ounn. Precur. (1836) n. 254 (not of A. Rich.). 
NorRTH AND SOUTH ISLANDS, Srewart IstAnp: From the Bay of Islands southwards, 
but often local or absent from large districts. Sea-level to 3500 ft. 
A handsome species, often attaining a large size. It is distinguished from ali the 
forms of D. Raoulii by the flatter leaves, which are often softly pilose on the sheaths and 
margins, and by the rather smaller spikelets with a straight subulate awn, not flattened 
nor twisted at the base. 
Mwew - 2. 
2. D. ovata Buch. N.Z. Grasses (1879) t. 29.—Densely tufted, forming 
compact yellowish-green tussocks. Culms 14-2 ft. high, gin. diam. at the 
base, slender, terete, glabrous or slightly pilose. Leaves shorter than the 
culms, few in number, slender, involute and terete, undulate above the 
middle and sometimes almost to the base, rigid, pale yellowish-green, 
narrowed upwards into long filiform undulate points ; both surfaces clothed 
with long appressed hairs except the smooth rounded keel and the thickened 
margins, which are more or less glabrous, deeply and regularly grooved, 
Sheaths long, cylindric, closed almost to the top, glabrous or nearly so ; 
ligule a broad rim of hairs at the mouth of the sheath. Panicle 2-4 in. long, 
sparingly branched, ovate, branches few, in whorls of 3, glabrous. Spike- 
lets few, remote, rather large for the size of the plant, }-$in. long without 
the awns, 4-6-flowered ; pedicels long, giabrous or nearly so. Flowering 
elumes subequal, lanceolate, acute, 3-7-nerved, deeply 2-fid at the tip, 
silky at the base and sides ; central awn flattened at the base and twisted. 
Palea nearly as long as the glume.—-Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 885. 
D. teretifolia Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvi (1914) 36. 
Soutn IsLAND: Southland—Mount Eglinton, J. Morton ; End Peak and Mount 
Cleaughearn, Crosby Smith! The Hump, near Lake Hauroto, J. Speden! top of Long- 
wood Range, Petrie! 2500-4500 ft. ‘ 
A remarkably distinct species. It is no doubt identical with Buchanan’s D. ovata, 
but it ig so badly described and figured that his name barely deserves consideration. 
3. D. bromoides Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel, 1 (1853) 303, t. 684.—Densely 
tufted, forming tussocks 1-4 ft. high. Culms stout, often as thick as the 
little finger at the base, quite glabrous, leafy throughout. Leaves longer 
or shorter than the culms, involute, gradually narrowed into very slender 
almost filiform points, coriaceous, smooth, polished, deeply striate ; mar- 
gins smooth, often pilose with long hairs towards the base ; sheaths long, 
pale, compressed, grooved, margins scarious ; ligules reduced to a trans- 
verse band of short densely set silky hairs. Panicle short, ovate-lanceolate 
or ovate-oblong, contracted, densely many-flowered, 4-6in. long; rhachis 
glabrous, angled ; branches short, close, suberect, 1-3in. long. Spikelets 
pedicelled, about in. long without the awns, rather broad, oblong or 
linear-oblong, 4-10-flowered, the upper flower usually imperfect. Two 
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