206 FLORA OF SEW ZEALAND. {B e s tia c ea .
masculis panicGatis peGcellatis, squamis ovato-lanceolatis v. subulatis acuminatis floribus 2-plo lougioribus,
spicGis foemineis fasciculis sessilibus alternis remotis aggregatisve dispositis, squamis exterioribus late
ovatis rotundatisve aristatis mucronatisve pubernlis glabratisve floribus lougioribus, glumis lanceolatis
exterioribus acummatis iuterioribus brevioribus aeutis v. demum obtusis cliartaceis, aclieiiio glumis interioribus
persistentibus incluso.—-Br. P n d r . A. Pick. Flor. A. Cunn. Prodr. Eestio simplex, Ford.
S. tenax, B a n h et Sol. MSS. et Ic. (Tab. LXI. A et C.)
Var. /3. fasciculatv.s ; cGmis robustis, fasciculis versus apices culmonim subpaniculatim congestis,
squamis exterioribus late ovatis mucronatis ai’istatisve floribus vix longioribus, glumis lanceolatis exterioribus
acuminatis interioribus obtusis. (Tab. LXI. B.)
Hab. Northern and Middle Islands, common on sand-hills and in marshes, B a n h and Solander, etc.
Var. f t Massacre Bay, Lyall. Nat. name, “ Oioi” (shaking). Col.
A variable plant in size ; abundant in Tasmania. Stems cpiite simple, numeions, arising from a sheathed
creeping rhizome, slender or stont, 1-2 feet liigh. SUatU 1-3 inches apart, i inch long. Peduncles of the male
spikes glabrous or downy. Fascicles of female flowers solitary or generally crowded into lobed heads i-1 inch long,
which are sessile and altemate on the culms, sometimes very few, small, and distant. Outer scales broadly
ovate, acuminate or mucronate or awned, longer thau the glumes, which are lanceolate, the outer acummate. The
var. R is a much larger and more robust plant than L. simplex, with fascicles of flowers collected in dense somewhat
panicled sessfle heads nearly an inch long. I had long supposed the males and females of this plant to belong to
different species, especially as Mr. Brown describes the female flowers of R. simplex as oecuiring on the upper part
of the same cGm as the males : this however is not the case with Forster’s original specimen from New Zealand, nor
with mine from Tasmania. Those from the latter country are shorter and more slender than the New Zealand ones,
with terminal heads or fascicles of spikelets, and the peduncles of the female spikelets more downy. I can find né
characters however whereby to separate them specifically.—P late LXI. A. Female plants of L. simplex, its
common form; B. of var. fasciculalus; C. mGe plant. Fig. 1, male flower and scale; 2, the same removed; 3,
stamen ; 4, female flower ; 5, the same with the inner scales surrounding the ripe fruit ; 6, achenium ; 7, vertical
section of the same :—aV ’
Gen. II . CALOIIOPHUS, Lab.
Spkæ vaginis culmi axillaribus breviter exsertæ, paucifloræ. Flores dioici, rarius monoici, bracteati.
S PertantAn foliola'6, linearia. Stamina 3, antheris peltatis. ¥ FeriantUi mGtibracteati foliola 6, brevissima.
Styh 2-3, decMG. Nux ossea, calva, l-sperma, basi periautliio breviore cincta, spicam terminaos.
—Herbæ Australasiæ et Novæ Zelandiæ. Culmi filiformes, graciles, [sæpe fastigiatim) ramosi, elongati,
semiteretes, striati, virides, rigidi, strioti v. Jlexuosi. Vaginæ breves, cartilaginea: ; ore sæpius barbato;
lamina brevi, subulata, sæpe divaricata. Spicæ mbulaU
Calorophus, Lab. Fl. Nov. Eoli. Eestio in pari., Br. Proir.
Rigid, wiry, green plants, with very slender, often flexuose, fastigiately branched, striate culms, flattened on one
side. Sheaths short, very coriaceous, with generally bearded mouths, and short, subulate, often spreading points.
Spikes uGsexnal, short, rigid, subulate, sunk in tbe sheaths, few-flowered. Males with three or four flowers each,
hid within a hard convolute scale. Glumes six, lanceolate. Stamens three; anthers peltate, one-celled, exserted.
Female spike of two or three flowers, the terminal only fertile. Scaks as in the male, hut more numerous. Glumes
six, short and broad. Nut terminal on the spike, bony, obovate, blunt, shining, one-celled and seeded, with two or
three curling deciduous styles, longer than the six persistent glumes which surround its base.—This genus is also
found in Tasmania and Australia, as are two of the New Zealand species. Mr. Brown, who had not scon the fruit
(which is however correctly represented in Labillardière’s drawing), united it with Restio, from whicli it differs in
the one-celled and seeded nut; it is much more nearly allied to Ihjpolcma, but diifers conspicuously in babit and
the lateral spikes. Restio flexuosus, Br., possibly belongs to this genus, but I have not seen its female flowers or
frait. (Name from Ka\o>goif>os, a Restio, according to the author of the genus.)
1. CGorophus elongata, Lab.; cGmis basì subfastigiatim ramosis, ramGls gracilibus elon^itis
flexuosis, vagiGs apicibus patulis subulatis, spicis vagiuis immersis, 4-6-floris bractea obtusa barbata
suffultis, glumis 6 linearibus squama pungente iuvolutis, ¥ spicis 3-floris, glumis brevibus, floribus remote,
inferiore 2-glumi, bracteola obtusa barbata, cæteris 6-glumis bracteola acuta v. pungente.—i a i . Fl. hov.
Eoli. ». 2 .* . 7. t. 228. Eestio laterifloms, Br. Prodr.
Hab. Northern Island. Great Barrière Island, Sinclair. Swamps at Wangarei, Colenso.
A common South Austrahan and Tasmanian plant. 2 feet high, branched from the base; branches green,
slender, flexnose, slightly compressed or angled. Sheaths i inch long, with spreading subulate points. Flo,vers m
short spikes, sunk iu the sheaths ,■ males four to six, crowded, subtended by an oblong blunt woolly bract. Glumes
six, linear, acuminate, enclosed in a scale with a pungent point. Femak spike more exserted. three-flowered, lower
of two glumes with a bearded blunt bract ; upper of six glumes, with acute or pungent bracts.
2. Calorophus minor, Hook, fil.; fastigiatim ramosus, ramis brevibus filiformibus gracilibus stnatis,
spicGis <î sub-2-floris, fl. ¥ subsolitariis.
Hab. Northern and Middle Islands. Bogs, base of Tongariro, Colenso. Top of Morse Mount, boUO
feet, Bidwill. Port Preservation, Lyall.
A span to 2 feet high ; smaller and more slender and branched than the last. Skms ascending, much branched ;
irancles short. Tops of sheaths erect. Mak spikekls two-flowered ; female flowers solitary. pedicellate.-Dr.
Lyall’s specimen is not in flower; it is rather more robust than the rest, with a large beard witliin the sheaths.
In one of Mr. Bidwfll’s I find a ripe fruit ot what I take tor a male plant ; it occupies an upper sheath of the culm.
This is also a common alpine Tasmanian plant : I doubt its being distinct from C. elongata, Lab.
3. Calorophus? ramis fastigiatis strictis erectis lævibus estriatis, vaginis longe acuminatis.
Hab. Chatham Island, Dieffenhach.
I regret not having this very distinct-looking plant in flower or frait. Skms 2 feet high, much branched;
branches °quite erect, smooth, round, polished, not striated nor fle.xnose. SheaiU with acuminate points.—A much
more robust plant than either of the former, and possibly belonging to a different genns.
Gen. I I I . GAIMAEDIA, Gaud.
Spicula terminalis, 1-2-flora. Spaila bivalvis, inferior superiorem minorem amplectens. Stamina
2 ; antheris peltatis. Ovaria 2, in unum coalita; stylis 2, exsertis. Vtrieulus membranaceus, 2-locGaris,
2-valvis, 2-spcrmus.
A gcnns ot three species, one fonnd in New ZeGand, another in Lord Auckland’s Group, and the third iu
Enegia mid the Falklands. G. setacea forms large patches on the ground, resembling moss.—Everywhere quite
sraoGli, bright green. Skms densely tufted. 1-2 inches long. Leaves imbricated, setaceous, 4 incb long, acuminate,
with broad, membranous, often laciniated sheaths. Flowers minute, solitary, on an erect termiuG peduncle è inch
long. Ferianth of two bracts, outer or lower enclosing the upper, coriaceous. Stamens 2. Ovaries 2, muted, each
with a long style. Fmit mcmbranoiis, 2-ccllcd. (Name in honour of M. Faul Gaimard, surgeon and naturalist to
Admiral Frcycinet’s voyage.)
1. Gaimardia setacea, Hook, fll.; foliis setaceis, vaginis membranaceis glaberrimis.
IIab. Southern extreme of New Zealand. Port Preservation, Lyall.
Obs. Tlie C. ciliala of Auckland’s Island (El. Antnrct. p. 86) closely resembles this, but has blunt leaves witb
ciliated sheaths.
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