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288 CENTROLEPIDACEAE, [Centrolepis.” 
shorter. Stamen 1, exserted. Carpels from 3 to 8 in each flower, super- 
posed and connate in 2 rows; styles as many as the carpels, free almost _ 
to the base.—Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 207; 7. Kirk on Trans, N.Z. 
Inst. xxiii (1891) 442; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. #1, (1906) 756. 
Sourn Istanp: Otago—Bluff Hill, 7. Kirk! 4H. J. Matthews ! December— 
January. | 
A common Australian and Tasmanian plant. 
| 2, GAIMARDIA Gaud, 126. Aso or Fe, 
= Ryan ‘ (A omy eq cn , “Whe. 100 BID IRM. 
| < Densely tufted pevenrhal herbs, forming moss-like patches i Deu ae 
bogs. Stems much branched, leafy throughout. Leaves numerous, densely 
imbricated, linear or linear-subulate or setaceous, erect, dilated at the 
base into broad membranous sheaths. Scape terminal, shorter or slightly 
longer than the leaves. Floral bracts 2 or 3, when 3 the upper one usually 
empty. Flowers 1, or more rarely 2 to each bract. Stamen 1 to each 
flower, sometimes deficient in one of the flowers. Ovary 2-celled or more 
rarely 3-celled, the cells (or carpels) collateral, connate; styles the same 
number as the carpels, long, filiform. Fruiting carpels 2, or 1 by abortion, 
In my memoir on the botany of the Subantarctic islands of New Zealand I have 
transferred to Gaimardia three plants (G. ciliata, G. pallida, and G. minima) placed by 
Kirk in Centrolepis. As pointed out in the first edition of this work, they differ in 
the perennial densely pulvinate habit, the shape of the leaves, the flowers seldom more 
than 1 in each floral bract, and in the cells of the ovary (or carpels) being frequently 
reduced to 1. In the ‘* Pfanzenfamilien ’’ Hieronymus keeps up the genus Alepyrum 
for their reception, a course which is likelv to lead to confusion. seeine that not ane 
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