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Atropis.| , GRAMINEAE. 203 
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2. A. antipoda( Petrie in Subantarct. Is. N.Z. (1909) 480.—Pale-green, 
tufted, leafy, 4-8in. high. Culms numerous, strict, erect, smooth and 
glabrous, 2-noded, upper node placed near the middle of the culm. Leaves 
sheathing the culm as far as the panicle, and often including the lower 
part of it, strict, erect, complicate, or nearly flat, striate, narrowed into 
long attenuate points ; sheaths long, lax, fissured to the base, rather broad, 
pale, smooth and glabrous; ligules oblong, membranous, lacerate at the tip. 
Panicle 2-3in. long, narrow, contracted, pale whitish-green, not equalling 
the leaves; branches unequal, in fascicles of 2 or 3, erect, sparingly 
divided. Spikelets 4in. long, shortly pedicelled, 5-6-flowered. Two outer 
glumes unequal, about 4 the length of the spikelet, narrow-lanceolate, 
acuminate, lower l-nerved, upper 8-nerved. Flowering glumes narrow 
oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 5-nerved, the median nerve slightly excurrent, 
glabrous except for a few hairs on the callus. Palea slightly shorter than 
the flowering glume; margins ciliate. sa. _ mm Sea. a*- 4ES 
AvucKLAND Istanps: 7. Kirk! B. OC. Aston! Antreopes Isnanp: B. C. Aston! 
This is closely allied to A. Walkeri, but appears to differ in the smaller size and more 
slender habit, 2-noded culm, and in the larger number of florets in the spikelets. 
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3. A. Walkeri Cheesem. n. comb.—Annual, pale whitish-green. Culms 
densely tufted, erect, quite glabrous, leafy, 3-4-noded, the uppermost node 
much above the middle, 4-14 in. high. Leaves sheathing the whole of 
the culm, strict, erect, complicate, striate; sheaths compressed, usually 
longer than the blades, grooved; ligules broad, membranous, hyaline, 
irregularly toothed at the tip. Panicle 2-6in. long, erect, contracted, 
dense, pale whitish-green; branches in fascicles of 2-7, very unequal, 
short, smooth, erect. Spikelets numerous, sessile or shortly pediceiled, 
about in. long, 4-5-flowered. Two outer glumes slightly unequal, about 
1 the length of the whole spikelet; lower narrow, lanceolate, acute, 
l-nerved, sometimes with a short lateral nerve on each side; upper 
broader and more obtuse, 3-nerved. Flowering glumes oblong or oblong- 
ovate, obtuse and hyaline at the tip, with sometimes an obscure notch 
on each side, 5-nerved, glabrous or slightly hairy on the back near the base. 
Palea as long as the glume, linear-oblong, minutely bidentate at the tip, 
ciliolate on the nerves. Lodicules distinct. Anthers linear-oblong, about 
sin. long.—A. novae-zealandiae Hack. in Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) $15 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906) 915. Poa Walkeri 7. Kirk in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. vit{1885) 224. Glyceria novae-zealandiae Petrie in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xxxiii (1901) 329. 
Sourn Isnanp: Brackish-water marshes on the south coast of Otago, 7. Kirk! 
Petrie! Stewart Istanp: East coast, local, 7’. Kirk / 
Easily distinguished from the preceding by the stouter habit, denser panicle with 
shorter branches, smaller pale whitish-green spikelets with fewer florets, much larger 
empty glumes, and narrower and more pointed flowering glumes. 
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4. A. Chathamica( Cheesem} n. sp.—Tall, stout, loosely tufted, perfectly 
smooth and glabrous, 9-I18in. high. Culms erect or decumbent at the 
base, 4-noded, the upper node placed about the middle ; innovation-shoots 
intravaginal. Leaves numerous, those at the base short and scale-like, 
membranous, without any lamina; cauline leaves sheathing the whole 
culm and the greater part of the panicle, perfectly smooth and glabrous, 
pale whitish-green, folded, grooved, tip cartilaginous, subobtuse ; sheaths 
very large and broad, longer than the blades, split to the base, compressed, 
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