Eleocharis. | CYPERACEAE. 217 
minutely granular, pale, crowned with the persistent dark-brown conic 
swollen base of the style—A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 277 ; Raoul Choe 
(1846) 40; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 269 ; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 300 ; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 292 (Heleocharis) ; Cheesem. Man, N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 767; C. B. Clarke Ill. Cyp. (1909) t. xxxiv, f. 1-6. ee 
Norru Istanp : Wet swamps and margins of lakes, not uncommon at low altitudes, v>/x«/ 3: 
SournIstanp: Nelson—Takaka, T. Kirk! Canterbury—J. B. Armstrong. Westland— 
Okarito, A. Hamilton! Southland—Bluff Island, Lyall. Srewart IsLanp: Head of 
Paterson’s Inlet, Petrie / swamps from Fresh-water Valley to Mason Bay, Cockayne. 
Sea-level to 1500 ft. December—February. 
An abundant Australian and Tasmanian plant, and very closely allied to the widely 
diffused EL. plantaginea R. Br. 
| 2. E. neo-zedlandica C. B. Clarke ex T. Kuk wm Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
ee ©, xxxi (1894) 260—Rhizome slender, creeping, 1—-3in. long. Stems short, 
1-24in. high, striate; sheath membranous, mouth oblique. Spikelet 
solitary, terminal, 1-1in. long, broadly ovoid, much wider than the stem, 
A-8-flowered, Glumes broadly ovate, concave, obtuse, red-brown with a 
paler centre and scarious margins. Hypogynous bristles wanting, Sta- 
mens 3. Style with 2 linear arms and a very small swollen base. Nut 
obovoid, biconvex, smooth, pale-brown.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl, (1906) | 
768: OC. B. Clarke Il. Cyp. (1909) t. xxxvi, f. 10-14, Peanttege “Veaet- 6s. 24a 
Norra Isnanp; Auckland—Sand-dunes between Cape Maria van Diemen and 
Ahipara, 7’. f. C,, H. Carse/ . Soutu ISLAND : Najson—Ca e Farewell, 7. Kirk / 
dimetang) = nOMA POX TON VORA MA. we Pelaw’ , Trabs 6S p23? 
A curious Mile species, Ralareine to fhe section leaght. characterized by fie” 
spikelets broader than the slender stems, membranous glumes, and 2-fid style. Mr. 
Clarke remarks that it approaches the section Isolepis of Scirnus in the 2bsence 
of hypogynous bristles.and the wat--—" 
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