TW.4, ee. SG 2 4. 
HOENUS. CAESPITANS Petrie. Species | 
Tense caespitans depressa c. 4 cm. (1-14 in. 
alta. Folia a bas erecta, filiformia, culmos 
aequantia vel excedentia, basi = expansa ac 
vaginantia; culmi folius erassiores virides 
erecti; inflorescentia brevis capituliformis; 
capitulum parvum sublonge bracheatum, © 
fasciculis tribus 8-10 florigeris arcte 
arsregatis compositum; glumae distichae 
3 inferiores vacuae, quarta florem hermaphrodit 
cerens, summa vacuo raro staminifera; setae 
plerumque 3; stylus erectus supra in ramos 3 
Sivaricantes divisus; spiculae culmique maturi 
haud visi. Ure Valley, A. Wall. 
TNH, So-SO 192+4- 
"Sehoenus fluitans Hook. A silencer, spreading 
muchebranched waterpr mud plant; branches slen 
der. Leaves slender, filifern, mostly 2 or 3 
inches long, solitary at intervals or sufted 
at nodes. Spikelets usuaily ger at the 
ends of the branches, linear, 4 or 5 ines long 
contained in 2 more or less glume-like bracts, 
%—_l Flowers, with only oné or no empty glumes. 
Hypogynous bristles none. Stamens 3. Nut 
ovoid, prominently 3-ribbed." (Rodway ) - 
oS 
EouLuiirse.= 
shorter than it. Spikelets numerous, narrow, 1-flowered, arranged m a 
terminal corymb or panicle, sometimes contracted into a more or less dense 
head, Glumes usually 4, distichous; the 2 lowest small, empty ; the third 
large, also empty ; the uppermost about the same size, with a single herma- 
phrodite flower in its axil. Hypogynous bristles 6, plumose, much enlarged 
in fruit and exceeding the glumes. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut 
oblong, 3-angled, narrowed above into the persistent and hardened base 
of the style. 
In addition to the New Zealand species, which is also found in Tasmania, Victoria, 
and on the mountains of New Guinea, there are 2 or 3 closely allied species in Chile and 
Fuegia. 
_ 1. G, alpina R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 230.—A tufted grass-like herb 3-12 in. 
high. Leaves usually shorter than the stems, numerous, narrow-linear, 
rigid, obtuse at the tip, flat or concave, grooved, dilated at the base into 
broad membranous sheaths. Spikelets 4-4 in. long, lanceolate, compresse¢, 
arranged in a corymbose manner at the top of the stem, in small specimens ; 
