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_ Panicle riszid, erect; glumes 6, 5 empty 
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Panicle slender, narrow; glumes Ts 
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distant. Glumes 8; 5 empty, unequal. Fruit large, 4-jin., 
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Very tall and stout, 5-12 ft. Panicle 2-5 ft., nodding. Glumes 
6-7; 4-5 empty, subequal. Nut large, 4-}in., black when fully 
ripe toe bs ra a 7 A .. 4. G. wanthocarpa. - 
Tall and stout, 5-7 ft. Panicle 2-3 ft., rigid, erect. Glumes 8; 
5 empty, subequal. Nut small, 4 in,, black os 7 
Leafy, 2-4 ft. Panicle 1-14 ft., narrow, lax. Glumes4; 2 empty, 
very long. Nut large, +in., red-brown x We ‘5 
Slender, 2-4ft. Panicle 9-18in., slender, narrow but dense. 
3. G. pauciflora. - 
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6. G. procera. *. 
Glumes 4-5 ; 2-3 empty. Nut small, fin., black .. .. d. G. lacera, = 
Small, 6-14in. Leaves exceeding the stem, spreading. Glumes 
6; 4empty. Nut small, ovoid, apiculate, black te .. 8. G. gahniaeformis. 
1. G. setifolia Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 278.—Stems numerous, 
tall, stout, 3-7 ft. high, forming large tussocks. Leaves many, almost 
-as long as the stems, involute, with scabrid cutting edges and long filiform 
points. Panicle large, nodding, 1-3 ft. long, much and laxly branched ; 
branches long, erect in flower, drooping in fruit; bracts long and leafy, 
with scabrid filiform points. Spikelets very numerous, dark-brown or 
almost black, }-1in. long, 2-flowered ; the lower flower male, the upper 
hermaphrodite and fruit-bearing. Glumes 7-8; the 4-5 outer ones empty, 
gradually increasing in length, keeled, acuminate, minutely scaberulous ; 
the 3 upper very small at the time of flowering and concealed within the 
uppermost empty glume, enlarged in fruit and closely appressed to the 
nut, obtuse, convolute. Stamens usually 4 to each flower, but varying 
from 4 to 6; filaments greatly elongated in fruit. Style-branches 3, 
rarely 4. Nut small, din. long, elliptic-obovoid, narrowed at both ends, 
smooth and shining, indistinctly grooved, red-brown when fully ripe, 
transversely grooved within.— Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1860) 306 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 792; C. B. Clarke Ill. Cyp. (1909) t. xevini, 
f. 1-7. G. scaberula, G. parviflora, and G. multiglumis Col. in Trans. 
