Cp Cees Vehin , Cc. Madu Pehuai c. Pedunge ae 
ae MakKeonkwn PP, Cc. v- obo ences ale Al Chalthow le. 
“Prams. SE. 47.6 -G | 
268 CYPERACEAR, [ Carex. 
Sourn Istanp: Nelson—Mount Arthur Plateau, St. Arnaud Mountains, Raglan 
Range, 7. F. C.; Dun Mountain, H. H. Travers ! D’Urville Island, H. B. Kirk! 
1000-3000 ft. December-—January. 
Mr. C. B. Clarke considered this to be a variety of C. lucida, to which it approaches 
very closely in the glumes and utricle. But the habit is altogether different, being 
nearer to some states of C. testacea, the leaves are shorter and broader and more 
coriaceous, the spikelets are fewer in number and shorter and broader, the terminal 
male one being often clavate, and the utricles are conspicuously nerved on both faces. 
299. ©. lucida Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 283.—Densely 
tufted, usually forming large tussocks. Culms very slender, leafy, smooth 
or slightly scabrid above, in the flowering stage 12-24 in. high and usually 
overtopped by the leaves, in fruit often but not invariably elongating and 
becoming prostrate, sometimes reaching a length of 4 or 5it. or even 
more. Leaves numerous, spreading or drooping at the tips, narrow, ;—} in. 
broad, keeled; margins and keel sharply scabrid. Spikelets 4-8, narrow, 
erect, cylindric, $-2 in. long, pale-brown to dark-brown; upper 1-3 male, 
very slender, unequal in length, close together; remainder female but 
occasionally with a few male flowers below or rarely at the top, almost 
sessile or on peduncles of varying length, usually rather distant, the lower- 
most often remote and occasionally compound at the base; bracts very 
long and leafy. Glumes broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, rarely very shortly 
emarginate, cuspidate with a short hispid awn, pale or dark chestnut-brown 
with a pale keel. Utricle about as long as the glume, elliptic-ovoid, un- 
equally biconvex, smooth or obscurely nerved on the rounded face, shining, 
from purplish-black to pale-brown; margins smooth; beak short, acutely 
bidentate. Styles 2. Nut broadly oblong, biconvex. — Hook. f. Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 314; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 314; Man432 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 824; Kukenth. in Pflanzenr. Heft 38 (1909) 686. U. flagel- 
lifera Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 342. 
Krrmapec Istanps: W. R. B. Oliver! Norru anp Soutu Istanps, STEWART 
Istanp: From the North Cape southwards, abundant. Sea-level to 3000 it. 
October—January. 
A well-known species, easily distinguished by the slender culms, narrow keeled 
leaves, distant long and narrow spikelets, usually entire glumes, and turgid smooth 
and polished. utricles. 
30. C. Buchanani Berggr. in Journ. Bot. xviii (1880) 104. — Densely 
tufted, usually reddish-purple, rarely whitish-green, Culms closely packed, 
slender, strict, erect, 1-2 ft. high, quite smooth. Leaves equalling the 
culms or longer than them, narrow, strict, semiterete, grooved on the 
convex face, s4-7sin. broad; margins scabrid. Spikelets 4-6, linear- 
oblong, erect, cylindric, $-1}in. long, remote or the upper approximate, 
pale whitish-green ; terminal 1 or rarely 2 male, very slender ; remainder 
female, usually with a few male flowers below, sessile or the lowest shortly 
pedunculate; bracts long and leafy. Glumes longer than the utricles, 
broadly ovate with a long hispid awn, pale, membranous ; margins lacerate. 
Utricle elliptic, plano-convex, smooth or faintly nerved on the convex face, 
spotted with dark-purple; margins ciliate-serrate above ; beak rather long, 
deeply bifid. Styles 2. Nut obovoid-oblong, plano-convex.—Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xiii (1881) 290; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 431; Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 825. C. lucida var. Buchanani Kukenth. in Pflanzen. 
Heft 38 (1909) 686. C. tenax Berggr. in Minneskr. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. 
(1877) 27, t. 7, t. 1-7 (not of Chapm.). 
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