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FLORA OF NEW ZEiUiAND.
niyisculis paniculatis pedicellatis, squamis ovato-lanceolatis v. subulatis acumiHiatis floribus 3 -plo lougioribus,
spicubs foemineis fasciculis sessilibus alternis remotis aggregatisve dispositis, squamis exterioribus late
oviitis rotundatisve aristatis mucronatisve puberulis glabratisve floribus lougioribus, glumis lanceolatis
exterioribus acuminatis interioribus brevioribus acutis v. demum obtusis chartaceis, aclieuio glumis in te rioribus
persistentibus incluse.— * . P r o ir . A . R ich . Flor. A. Cunn. Prodr. Itestio simplex, Forst.
E . tenax, B a n h e t Sol. M S S . et Ic. (Tab. L X I. A et C.)
Var. fi. fa sc icu la tu s ; culmis robustis, fasciculis versus apices culmorum subpyaniculatim congestis,
squamis exterioribus late ovatis mucronatis aristatisve floribus vix longioribus, glumis lanceolatis exterio-
rib u s aeuminatis interioribus obtusis. (Tab. LX I. B .)
H ab. No rtliern an d Middle Islands, common ou sand-bills and iu marslies, B a n h a n d Solander, etc.
Var. fi. Massacre Bay, LyaU. N a t. name, “ Oioi” (shaking). Col.
A variable plant in size ; abundant in Tasmania. Stems qnite simple, numerous, arising from a slieathed
creeping rhizome, slender or stout, 1-3 feet high. SUatU 1 -3 inches apart, i inch long. Peduncles of the male
spikes glabrous or downy. Pascides of female flowers solitary or generally crowded into lobed heads 4 -1 inch long,
which are sessile and alternate on the culms, sometimes very few, smaU, and distant. Outer scales broadly
ovate, acuminate or mucronate or awned, longer thau the glumes, which are lanceolate, the outer acummate. The
1 ar. /3 is a much larger and more robust plant than Z. simplex, with fascicles of flowers collected iu dense somewhat
panicled sessile heads nearly an inch long. I had long supposed the males and females of this plant to belong to
different species, especiaUy as Mr. Brown describes the female flowers of E. simplex as occumng on the upper part
of the same culm 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 no
characters however whereby to separate them specifically.— P l a t e LXI. A. Female plants of L. simplex, its
common form; B. of var. fasciculatus; C. male plant. Fig. 1, male flower and scale; 2, the same removed; 8,
stamen ; 4, female flower ; 5, the same with the inner scales surrounding the ripe fruit ; 6, achenium ; 7, vertical
section of tke same :— all
Gen. I I . CALOROPHUSy Lab.
Spwæ vagims culmi axiUaribus breviter exsertæ, paucifloræ. Flores dioici, rarius monoici, bracteati.
S F e ria n th n fohola 6, linearía. Stamina 3, antheris peltatis. ¥ P e ria n th ii multibracteati foliola 6, b re vissima.
S ty h 3 - 3 , decidui. N u x ossea, calva, 1-sperma, basi perianthio breviore cincta, spicam terminans.
Herbæ Australasiæ et Novæ Zelandiæ. Culmi filiformes, graciles, [sæpe fa s tig ia tim ) ramosi, elongati,
semiteretes, stria ti, virides, rigidi, s tricti v. fle xm s i. Vaginæ Ireves, cartilagineæ ; ore sæpius barbato;
lamina brevi, subulata, sæpe divaricata. Spicæ subulatæ, breves, slrictæ, squamis cartilagineis rigidis.—
Calorophus, Lab. Pi. Nov. Holl. Eestio in p a r t., B r . Prodr.
Rigid, wuy, green plants, with very slender, often flexuose, fastigiotely branched, striate culms, flattened on one
side. Sheaths short, very coriaceous, with generaUy bearded mouths, and short, subulate, often spreading points.
Spikes umsexual, short, rigid, subulate, sunk in the sheaths, few-flowered. Males with three or four flowers each,
hid withm a hard convolute scale. Glumes six, lanceolate, Siamens three; anthers peltate, one-celled, exserted.
Female spike of two or three flowers, the terminal only fertile. Scales as in the male, but more numerous. Glumes
six, short and broad. B fit terminal on the spike, bony, obovate, blunt, shining, one-ccHcd 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 Tasmama and Australia, as are two of the New Zealand species, Mr. Brown, who had not seen the fruit
(which is however correctly represented in LabiUardière’s drawing), united it with Restio, from which it differs in
the one-celled and seeded nut ; it is much more nearly allied to Ibjpoloena, but differs conspicuously iu habit and
the lateral spikes. Eestio fexuosus, Br.. possibly belongs to this genus, but I have not seen its female flowers or
fniit. (Name from KaXwpofios, a Eestio, according to the author of the genns.)
1. Calorophus elongata, L a b .; oulmis basi subfastigiatim ramosis, ramulis gracihbus elongatis
flexuosis, vagims apicibus patulis subulatis, spicis vaginis immersis, 4 -6 -flo ris b ractea obtusa barbata
suffultis, glumis 6 hnea ribus squama pun g en te involutis, ¥ spicis 3-lloris, glumis brevibus, floribus rem o te ,
inferiore 3-glumi, bracteola obtusa barbata, cæteris 0-glmnis bracteola acuta v. p u u g e i i t e . - í« ¿ . M . M v .
Holl. V. 2. p . 7. t. 2 28. Eestio lateriflorus,-Br. P to * '.
H ab. N o rth e rn Islan d . Great Barriere Islan d , Sinclair. Swamps a t Wangarei, Colenso.
A common South Austrahan and Tasmanian plant, 2 feet high, branched from the base; branches green,
slender. fle.xuose, slightly compressed or angled. Sheaths } inch long, with spreadmg subulate points. Plowers m
short spikes, sunk in the sheaths ; males four to six. crowded, subtended by an oblong blunt woolly bract. Glumes
six. hnear. aenminate, enclosed in a scale with a pungent point. Female spike more exserted, three-flowered, lower
of two glumes with a bearded blimt bract ; upper of six glumes, with acute or pungent bracts.
•2. Calorophus minor. Hook. fll. ; fastigiatim ramosus, ramis brevibus filiformibus gracih b u s stn atis,
spiculis <J sub-3-floris, fl. ¥ subsolitariis.
H ab. N o rth e rn and Middle Islands. Bogs, base of Tongariro, Colenso. Top of Morse Mount, 6oU0
feet, B idw ill. P o rt Preservation, L ya ll.
A span to 2 feet high ; smaller and more slender and branched than the last. Stems aseending. much branched ;
branches short. Tops of sheaths erect. Male spikelets two-flowered ; female flowers sohtary, p ed icellate ,-Dr.
Lyall’s specimen is not in flower; it is rather more robust than the rest, with a large beard witbm the sheaths.
In one of Mr. Bidwül’s I find a ripe fruit of what I take for 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, vagims longe acuminatis.
H ab. Chatham Islan d , Dieffenbach.
I regret not having this very distinct-Iookmg plant in flower or fruit. Stems 2 feet high, much branched;
branches “quite erect, smooth, round, pohshed. not striated nor flexuose. S heath with acuminate p o in ts .-A much
more robust plant than either of the former, and possibly belonging to a different genus.
Gen. I I I . G A IM A ED IA , Gaud.
Spicttla terminalis, 1-2-flora. Spatha bivalvis, inferior superiorem minorem amplectens. Stamina
2 ; antberis peltatis. Ovaria 2, in uniim coa lita; s tylis 2, exsertis. Utriculus membranaceus, 2-locularis,
2-valvis, 2-spci’niiis.
A genus of three species, one found in New Zealaud, another in Lord Auckland’s Group, and the third iu
Fuegia “and the Falklands. G. setacea forms large patches on the ground, resembhng m o s s .-E v e iy where quite
smortli, bright green. Stems densely tufted, 1 -2 inches long. Leaves imbricated, setaceous, i inch long, acuminate,
with broad, membranous, often laciniatcd sheaths. Flowers minute, sohtary, ou an erect termhml peduncle è inch
Ion«. Perianth of two bracts, outer or lower enclosing the upper, coriaceous. Stamens 2. Ovanes 2. united, each
with a long style. Fruit membranous, 2-cclled. (Name in honour of M. Paul Gamard, surgeon and naturalist to
Admirnl Frcycinet’s voyage.)
I . Gaimardia setacea, Hook, fil, ; foliis setaceis, vaginis membranaceis glaberrimis.
II.AB. Southern extreme of New Zealand. P o rt Preservation, LyaU.
Oils. Tlie G. ciliala of Auckland’s Island (Fl. Antarct. p. 86) closely resembles tliis, bnt has blunt leaves with
ciliated slieatlis.
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