1. Gynmostichum gracile, Hook, fil.; culmis gracilibus vaginisque lævibus, foliis planis angustis
elongatis superne asperulis, spica elongata subflexuosa gracili, spiculis 2 0 -4 0 disticliis sessilibus, glumis
setiformibus v. nullis, flosculis 2 - 3 MspiduHs inferiore b reviter secundo longe pedicellato plerumque
pedicello te rtii accedente, palea inferiore 5-nervi (lateralibus obscuris) in aristam rectam rigidam palea
breviore angusta ta. (Tab. LX X .)
H ab. Northern and Middle Islands : woods at Patea and Tarauera villages, Colenso ; Akaroa, Raoul.
Slender, erect, 3 -4 feet high.— Culms and sheaths smooth. Leaves narrow, flat, rough above. Spihe 4-7
inches long, slender, erect. Raclm flexuous. very flat, edges ciliate. Spikelets with awns i - f inch long, sessile,
solitary, twice as long as the interaodes. Qlumes 0, or two rigid setæ. Ftorets two or three ; upper often imperfect,
with the pedicel of a third at its base; lower shortly pedicelled, secund, with a pedicel half as long as the upper
palea. Loner palea naiTow, five-neiwed, rough with short hairs, produced into a straight awn one-fourth to one-half
as long as itself. Scales ovate, entire or obliquely bilobed, ciliate. Ovary with a bristly pencil of hairs at the top.
— P l a t e LXX. Fig. 1, spikelet with subulate glumes ; 2, spikelet without glumes ; 8 and 4. scales ; 6, stamen ;
6j ovary :— all magnijied.
Gen. X X X . ZOYSIA, JFilld.
Spiculæ unifloræ; flore sessili. G hm a 1, antica, carinata, marginibus basi connatis. Baleoe 2,
membranaceæ ; inferior uninervis, carinato-complicata ; superior brevis v. 0, enervis, carinata. Squamula: 0.
Caryopsis libera.— Gramen rig id um ; foliis distichis, ca n a licu la tis; spica simplici, racemosa, eontin
u a ; spiculis imbricatis.
A small, rigid, wiry, creeping Grass, \n th short leafy culms and a terminal spicate raceme.—Leaves distichous,
channeUed. Spikelets one-flowered; flower sessUe. Glume one, keeled, compressed, the margins connate, open
above. Palea two, membranous ; lower keeled, compressed, ovate-oblong, one-nerved ; upper short, nerveless, keeled,
or wanting. Scales 0. Caryopsis free. (Name in honour of Baron Charles de Zoys, a Carniolian ecclesiastic and
collector of plants.)
1. Zoysia pungens, Willd .— * . Prodr. K u n th , Agrost. p . 4 7 1 . Agrostis Matrella, L in n . M ant.
Rottboellia nniflora, A . Cunn. Brodr.
H ab. Northern and Middle Islands : Bay of Islands, abundant, .
Nelso n , Monro.
A curious little Grass, a native of New Zealand, Australia, India, and the Mauritius.-Cafms woody below,
there creeping horizontaUy. sending downwards long wiry roots, and upwards short divided branches. 1 -2 inches
long, that bear distichous, spreading, subulate, generally involute leaves. Upper part o f culm naked, slender. 1 incb
long. Spike small, of four to six closely appressed. imbricate. sessUe or shortly pedicelled spikelets, arranged on a
flattened flexuous rachis.
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JOHN EDWABD TATLOE, PE IN T E E ,
LITTLE QUEEN STEEET, LINCOLN’S INN EIELDS.
Platel.
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