Carez. | CYPERACEAE. ; 265 
broadly oblong.—Raoul Choixz (1846) 40; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1 (1844) 89 ; 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 282; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 314; Boott Ill, Car. iv 
(1867) 176, t. 596; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z, Inst. xvi (1884) 431; 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 820; Kukenth. in Pflanzenr. Heit 38 (1909) 369. 
C. geminata Schkuhr Riedgr. i (1801) 65; A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 290. 
C. polystachya A, Rich, Fl. Nouv, Zel. (1832) 118, t. 21. 
Var. gracilis Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 431.—Tall, slender. Leaves 
usually narrower, $-tin. broad. Spikelets numerous, long, often over 41in., slender, 
sometimes barely 4in. diam. 
Var. pallida Cheesem. 1.c.— Stout. Leaves strict, rigid, often coriaceous, Spike- 
lets fewer, short, pale, on long filiform peduncles. Utricles broader and more turgid, 
indistinctly nerved, sometimes with serrate margins. 
Nortu anp SourH Istanps, Stewart Istanp, AUCKLAND ISLANDS, ANTIPODES 
_IstAnD: The typical form and var. gracilis abundant throughout, var. pallida not 
uncommon in the mountains of the South Island. Sea-level to 4000 ft. November— 
February. 
Very distinct in its ordinary state, but small slender forms appear to run into 
C’. subdola and into the following species. I do not consider that my var. pallida can 
be possibly included in Boott’s var. minor, as has been done by Kukenthal. The late 
Mr. C, B. Clarke agreed with me in treating var. minor as a depauperated state of the 
type, and he was well acquainted with it. 
23. ©. Sinclairii Boott MS. in Herb. Kew.—Rhizome creeping, stoloni- 
ferous. Culms slender or rather stout, triquetrous, scabrid above, 6-18 in. 
high. Leaves shorter or longer than the culms, flat, grassy, striate, 4-4 in. 
broad; margins scabrid; sheaths at the base not transversely fibrillose. 
Spikelets 4-6, erect or nearly so, short, stalked or the uppermost sessile, 
$-l$in. long; terminal 1 or 2 male, very slender; remainder female, 
usually with a few male flowers at the top, solitary or the upper geminate, 
rarely compound at the base, the lower usually on longer peduncles. Glumes 
oblong or oblong-ovate, tapering upwards, acute or obtuse, not mucronate 
or the mucro very short and inconspicuous, dark red-brown, unicolorous 
or with a very narrow pale stripe down the centre. Ubtricle equalling the 
glume or barely exceeding it, ovate, much compressed, nerved, narrowed 
into a short minutely 2-toothed beak. Styles 2. Nut broadly oblong, 
lenticular—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 820. 
Sourn Istanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur Plateau, Wairau Valley, Hanmer Plains, 
T. #, C. Canterbury—Sinclair and Haast, n. 138 in Herb. Kew ; Broken River, Lake 
Tekapo, 7’. F. C. Westland—Okarito, A. Hamilion! Otago—Hector and Buchanan, 
Petrie ! 1000-3000 ft. December—February. 
I am indebted to Mr. C. B. Clarke for supplying me with information respecting 
this, and for identifying some of my specimens. It appears to be a somewhat critical 
species, differing from depauperated states of C. ternaria in the basal leaf-sheaths not 
being transversely fibrillose, in the much fewer erect spikelets, and barely awned 
glumes, &c. From C. Gaudichaudiana, large states of which approach it in habit, it is 
removed by the broader harsher leaves, the spikelets often stalked and geminate, the 
longer glumes not rounded at the tip, and by the utricle not being granular-papillose. 
I suspect that in the South Island mountain states have been confused with C. subdola. 
24. C. Raoulii Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Nov, Zel. i (1853) 283.—Yellowish- 
green or dark-green, laxly tufted, often spreading at the base. Culms rather 
stout, triquetrous, scabrid on the angles, 9-18in, high. Leaves longer 
than the culms, flat, broad, coriaceous, grooved, 4-1+in. broad, seabrid on 
the margins and midrib beneath. Spikelets 4-8, all female but usually 
with a few male flowers below, the uppermost generally with more male 
