Carex. | CYPERACEAE, 271 
male flowers at the top, shortly pedicellate; bracts long, filiform, Glumes 
ovate, pale, membranous, strongly keeled, gradually narrowed into a short 
scabrid mucro. Utricles about as long as the glumes, turgid, elliptic, 
slightly stipitate, plano-convex, with two prominent lateral nerves, and 
faint intermediate ones, narrowed into a short broad obscurely bidentate 
beak. Styles 3. 
Stewart Isnanp: Table Hill, W. J. Murdoch! high lands at Port Pegasus, 
T. Kirk! high lands at the head of Paterson Inlet, H. Guthrie Smith / 
Probably C. uncifolia is the nearest ally of this curious little plant, which is 
mainly known from cultivated plants. Tams..5S OU K = IA) 
36. C. uneifolia Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 412. — 
Brownish-red or green, forming lax or dense spreading tufts. Culms 
short, 1-4in. high, usually sheathed to the top by the leaves. Leaves 
numerous, spreading, far exceeding the culms, 3-lOin. long, 34-75 im. 
broad, rarely narrower and filiform, concave in front, convex on the back, 
grooved, tips often curled and twisted when dry; margins finely scabrid 
above. Spikelets 3-5, short, closely approximate or sometimes the lowest 
one remote, chestnut-brown to dark-brown, 4-;in. long; terminal one 
male, slender, erect; remainder all female, spreading, ovoid or oblong, 
all sessile or the lowest very shortly pedunculate. Glumes ovate, obtuse 
or cuspidate, membranous, chestnut-brown with a green centre; margins 
sometimes erose. Utricles longer than the glumes, narrowed at the base, 
elliptic-oblong, trigonous, more or less distinctly nerved, reddish-brown 
to blackish-brown, rarely pale; margins rounded, entire; beak very 
short, with an almost entire or obscurely 2-toothed mouth. Styles 3. 
Nut obovoid, trigonous.—Tvrans. N.Z. Inst. xxiv (1892) 415; Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 827; Kukenth. in Pflanzenr. Heft 38 (1909) 685. 
Var. libera Kukenth. in Pflanzenr. Heft 38 (1909) 685. — Culms longer, not 
sheathed by the leaves to the top. Spikelets 4-5, often $in. long. Glumes of the 
females notched at the top. 
Norto AnD ~-SoutH Istanps, Stewart Is~tanp: Apparently not uncommon in 
mountain districts throughout. 2000-4000 ft. | December-February. Var. libera : 
Mount Arthur Plateau, Nelson, 7’. F. C. 
37. C. Dallii 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi (1894) 261.—Small, 
slender, laxly tufted, usually reddish-brown. Culms very slender, smooth, 
grooved, 4-10 in. high. Leaves shorter than the culms or almost equalling 
them, sheathing at the base, narrow, 24-7); in. broad, concave in front, 
convex behind, grooved, narrowed into long filiform points; margins 
slightly scabrid above. Spikelets 3-5, narrow, 4-3 in. long, more or less 
distant, the lowermost often almost basal, dark red-brown; terminal one 
male, slender; remainder all female, sometimes with a few male flowers 
below, sessile except the lowest, which is on a long filiform peduncle ; 
bracts long, leafy. Glumes ovate, acuminate or slightly awned, mem- 
branous, reddish-brown.  Utricles narrow-ovoid, obscurely trigonous, 
smooth or faintly nerved, dark purplish-black; margins entire; beak 
sharply 2-toothed. Styles 3. Nut trigonous.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 898. C. Travers T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi (1894) 262. 
C. Gibbsii Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvi (1913) 35. 
Soutn Istanp: Nelson—Source of the Heaphy River, Dall/ Dun Mountain, 
H H. Travers! (C. Traversii) ; Cedar Creek, near Denniston, Petrie / (C. Gibbsii), 
