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192 GRAMINEAE. [ Poa. 
9. P. polyphylla Hack. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxv (1903) 383.— 
Tufted; innovation-shoots extravaginal. Culms erect or decumbent 
at the base and then ascending, often much branched, many-noded, com- 
pressed, glabrous, wiry, 6-18in. high. Leaves numerous, sheathing the 
culm, distichously spreading, 4-l0in. long, about #5in. broad, flat or 
complicate, lower portion smooth, upper part scabrid on the margins 
and keel; sheaths overlapping, tight, compressed, grooved; ligules 
reduced to a narrow truncate rim.. Panicle 1-3in. long by 3-1 in. broad, 
oblong, dense, contracted ; branches usually binate, short, erect, divided, 
spiculate almost to the base, more or less scabrid. Spikelets oblong, 
compressed, 4-5-flowered, #-zin. long. Two outer glumes unequal, 
lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved, sharply scabrid along the keel, the upper 
the longer, rather more than } the length of the spikelet. Flowering 
elumes lanceolate, sharply acuminate, almost mucronate, keeled, pro- 
minently 5-nerved, minutely scabrid on the surface and nerves and 
sharply scabrid along the keel, callus and lower part of keel with long 
crisped woolly hairs. Palea slightly shorter than the glume, linear-oblong, 
scabrid on the keels. Anthers long.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. fF. re 
903; Il. NZ. Fl. ii (1914) t. 229. Placed bo tote. (13+ 236) a 
var. 
7 Fue >. 
KermMapec Isnanps: Abundant on Sunday and Macaulay Islands, chiefiy near 
the sea, 7. F. C., Miss Shakespear! W. R. B. Oliver / 
Distinguished by the branching habit, distichously spreading leaves, short con- 
tracted panicle, and narrow acuminate flowering glumes, which are sharply scabrid on 
the keel, and scaberulous on the surfaces and veins. 
10. P. anceps Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 43.—Perennial, very variable ; 
innovation-shoots extravaginal. Culms tufted, often branched at the 
base, stout, compressed, glabrous, leafy, 10-36in. high or even more. 
Leaves longer or shorter than the culms, subdistichous, 9-18in. long, 
1-lin. broad, acute or acuminate, rather coriaceous, flat or concave, 
smooth on both surfaces or the margins slightly scabrid near the apex ; 
sheaths compressed, grooved ; ligules a short truncate rim. Panicle very 
variable, 4-12 in. long, 1-5 in. broad, lanceolate to oblong or ovate, effuse 
or contracted, rather dense or open, inclined or erect; rhachis smooth 
or scaberulous; branches short or long, suberect or spreading, 2 or 3 or 
more from one node, once or twice divided; branchlets capillary, sca- 
berulous. Spikelets ovate-oblong, compressed, }4in. long, 4-6-flowered. 
Two outer glumes unequal, not 4 the length of the spikelet, but reach- 
ing 3-way up the flowering glume above them, lanceolate, acuminate, 
3-nerved, scabrid on the keel and sides or almost glabrous. Flowermg 
glumes oblong to oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, keeled, prominently 
5-nerved, minutely scaberulous on the surface and nerves or almost 
smooth, keel usually scabrid, callus and lower part of keel with a few 
crisped hairs or almost glabrous. Palea almost as long as the flowering 
glume, linear-oblong, minutely ciliate-scabrid on the keels. Anthers long. 
—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 306; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 339; Buch. 
N.Z. Grasses (1880) t. 44; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 904. P. aus- 
tralis A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 141; A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 262 ; 
Raoul Choix (1846) 39 (not of R. Br.). 
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Var. eondensata Cheesem._Culms 4-18 in. high, often overtopped by the leaves. 
Panicle shorter and much more compact, dense-flowered. Spikelets rather smaller, 
2-4-flowered. Glumes smoother, hardly scaberulous. 
