Cladium.] CYPERACEAE, 231 
smaller than the succeeding flowering ones. Hypogynous bristles usually 
wanting. Stamens 3. Style long, linear; base often dilated but con- 
tinuous with the nut; style-branches 3, rarely 2. Nut ovoid or oblong, 
terete or obscurely trigonous or tricostate, smooth, crowned by the adnate 
base of the style. 
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Species between 40 and 50, widely distributed, but more plentiful in the Southern 
Hemisphere than in the Northern. Of the 10 species found in New Zealand, 6 extend 
to Australia and Tasmania, 3 of them being also found in the Pacific islands or eastern 
Asia ; the remaining 4 are endemic. 
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A. Vincentia. Spikelets with 2-4 perfect flowers. Nut stipitate, triquetrous, narrowed 
upwards into a long cuspidate beak. 
Tall, 2-5 ft. Stems and leaves flattened, the latter 1-1 in. broad. 
Panicle very large, lax, drooping .. “% af .. IL. OC. Sinclairit. 
B. Baumea. Spikelets with 1 or rarely 2 perfect flowers. Nut sessile, often tumid at 
the apex, not narrowed into a cuspidate beak. 
* Spikelets usually 2-3-flowered, 1 or sometimes 2 of the flowers perfecting fruit. 
Stems and leaves flattened, 1-Lin. broad. Panicle 6-12 in., 
narrow. Nut ovoid, trigonous Se ate * : 
Stems and leaves stout, terete, transversely septate. Panicle very 
large and broad, drooping. Nut obovoid, trigonous .. .. 3d C. articulatum. 
Stems and leaves slender, terete, not septate. Panicle narrow 
erect, 3-10 in. long, interrupted; bracts spathaceous. Nut 
reddish-yellow, trigonous .. is A = 
Stems and leaves slender, terete, not septate. Panicle narrow, 
10-18 in.; branches drooping. Nut pale .. oe ..  C. Huttonr, 
2. C. complanatum. 
4, C. glomeratum. 
** Spikelets 1- or rarely 2-flowered, never more than one flower perfecting fruit. 
Stems and leaves slender, terete. Panicle 2-6 in. long, stiff, dense ; 
bracts small. Nut small, oblong-orbicular .. “ .. 6. C. teretifolium. 
Stems very slender, terete. Leaf solitary and long, or reduced to 
sheathing scales. Panicle 6-18 in. long, slender. Nut ovoid, 
smooth ; tip large, tumid .. Le oa af -. 4. C. Gunnit, 
Stems terete. Leaves reduced to sheathing scales. Panicle short, 
2-ly in. long. Nut obtusely trigonous, tip small, puberulous .. 8. C. junceum. 
Stems stout, tetragonous. Leaves like the stems, short, often 
reduced to sheathing scales. Panicle contracted into a spike 
4-3 in. long. Hypogynous bristles present 24 .. 9. C. Vauthiera., 
Stems filiform. Leaves reduced to sheathing scales. Panicle short, 
3-7 in. long; spikelets 3-7. Nut with a persistent style-base as 
long as itself a a a oh .. 16. C. capillaceum. 
V. cancefos Hie. +. 
l. G. Sinelairii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 305.—-Stems tall, leafy, 
quite flat, smooth, 2-5 ft. high, din. diam., forming large clumps. Leaves 
2-4 it. long, distichous and equitant at the base, acuminate, quite fat, 
3-lin. broad, pale-green, smooth, striate; margins thin, even. Panicle 
large, terminal, nodding, excessively branched, 9-12 in. long or more; 
bracts sheathing, 2-edged ; branches drooping. Spikelets innumerable, rich 
dark red-brown, fascicled, 4in. long, 2-3-flowered, the lower flower usually 
alone fertile. Glumes usually 5, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or almost 
awned, minutely scabrid-pubescent, 2 or 3 outer empty. Hypogynous 
bristles wanting. Stamens 3, elongating after flowering. Style-branches 3. 
Nut small, red-brown, fusiform, trigonous, conspicuously narrowed at the 
base, and also upwards into a triquetrous minutely scabrid beak.—Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 785; Ill. N.Z. Fl. ii (1914) t. 211. ¢. gahnioides 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 340, Vincentia anceps Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i (1853) 276. V. gladiata Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxviii (1874) 250. 
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