228 CYPERACEAE. [ Schoenus, 
and a short erect lamina. Spikelets lanceolate, compressed, 3-4 in. long, 
2-3-flowered, red-brown. Glumes 6-9, distichous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
concave, nerveless; margins ciliate; the 4-6 outer smaller and empty. 
Hypogynous bristles wanting. Stamens usually 2.  Style-branches 3. 
Nut small, turgid, cbovoid, trigonous with the angles thickened, faces 
transversely rugose.—Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 170; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 780. S. tenax Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 298. 
Chaetospora tenax Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 273. 
Norra Istanp: From the North Cape to Cook Strait, but rare and local to the 
south of Rotorua. Souru Istanp: Nelson—Aorere Valley, 7’. Kirk / Sea-level to 
1500 ft. December—January. oy 1 fon he a 
Also in extratropical Australia. 
2. S. Tendo Banks and Sol. ex Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 298.— 
Rhizome stout, creeping. Stems much more slender than in S. brevifolius, 
1-3 ft. high, rigid, deeply grooved throughout their length. Leaves 
reduced to 2-3 dark chestnut-brown or almost black sheaths at the base of 
the stem, the uppermost produced into a subulate lamina {-41n, long; 
the mouths of the sheaths fringed with cobwebby hairs. Panicle slender, 
narrow, 2-8in. long; branches short, slender, erect. Spikelets lnear- 
lanceolate, compressed, 2—4-flowered, +-4din. long, dark-brown or almost 
black. Glumes 8-10, distichous, ovate-lanceolate, acute, concave, keeled, 
nerveless except the midrib; margins ciliate ; the 5-6 outer smaller and 
empty. Hypogynous bristles 3-6, short, slender, sometimes not equalling 
the nut. Stamens 2, Style-branches usually 2. Nut obovoid, unequally 
and obliquely biconvex, quite smooth, white.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 781. Chaetospora Tendo Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 278. 
Ma~to Qet . thm. Gt 
—_— = a Ss ‘ ae «a *¢€ ) ° - abe — = 
| ’ Norte Isuasp : Abundant on clay hills from the North Cape to Hawke’s Bay 
and Taranaki. Sour Istanp: Nelson—Aorere Valley, 7. Kirk. Sea-level to 2000 ft. 
October—January. ver. Me. of ~A-- ¥ —e. 635, brite 
Easily distinguished from the preceding species by the more slender grooved 
stems, smaller darker spikelets, the presence of bristles, and by the smooth biconvex 
nut. 
3. S. Carsei Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 781.—Rhizome short, 
stout, creeping, clothed with chestnut-brown scales. Stems densely tufted, 
very slender, 1-24 it. high, terete, grooved. Leaves reduced to 2-3 chest- 
nut-brown sheaths at the base of the stem, produced at the tip into an 
erect subulate lamina }-2in. long; the mouths of the sheaths oblique, 
glabrous. Panicle slender, narrow, 2-6in. long; branches filiform, erect ; 
bracts at the base with appressed sheaths, and a short erect lamina, 
Spikelets numerous, compressed, very narrow, 4-4 in. long, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, brownish. Glumes 5-7, distichous, closely imbricate, ovate-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, concave, keeled, thin and membranous, nerveless; the 
3-4 outer empty. Hypogynous bristles wanting. Stamens 3.  Style- 
branches 3. Nut oblong, obtuse at both ends, not trigonous, smooth, 
white.—Cheesem. Ill. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 209. 
Nortu Istanp : Auckland—Rangaunu Harbour, H. Carse / swamps at Whangarei 
and between the Manukau Harbour and the Waikato River, H. Carse/ Papatoetoe, 
T’. Kirk! swamps by the Waitoa River, P. H. Allen! Taranaki—Ngaire Swamp, 
Por C. January—March. S.Auvheafla Blake i4,+S 
This seems to have been confounded with S. pauciflorus, but differs from that 
species in the shorter leaves, longer panicle with numerous spikelets, in the absence 
of bristles, and in the nut. It is probably common in lowland swamps. 
Ure Ve. Anew 
