and N. T. M. No. 199; 73149 Westport, D. Petrie; 73152 Te Kuiti, Waipa River, D. P., 73154 St. John's Lake, Auckland, D. P.; 82083 nine miles west of summit of Lewis Pass, North Canterbury, A. J. Healy.

Herb. Dominion Museum: Wairua Falls, Whangarei, H. Carse; Waipa River, Te Kuiti D. Petrie; Waihi Lake, Waikato, T. Kirk; Great Barrier Island, T. Kirk; Tirau, Thames Valley, D. Petrie; Hangitiki near Otorohanga, D. P.; Te Whaiti near Whakatane, D. P.; Mercer, D. P.; Rahui near Charleston, D. P.; Westport, D. P.

Herb. Auckland Museum: 2575 Mangatapere, Whangarei, H. Carse; 2576 and 2577 St. John's Lake, Auckland, T. F. Cheeseman; 2578 Mercer, T. F. C.; 2579 Patetere Plateau, T. F. C.; 14533 Te Aroha, J. Adams 14540 Thames District, J. Adams.; Te Aroha-Tairua, J. A.

Herb. Canterbury Museum: Waikato, T. Kirk No. 883; in Herb. H. Carse 422/1 near Kaitaia, H. B. Matthews and H. Carse; 422/2 Wairua Falls, Whangarei, H. C.; 422/3 Maungatapere, Whangarei, H. Carse; 422/4 vicinity of Auckland, T. F. Cheeseman No. 1828; 422/5 and 422/6 Mauka, Franklin County, H. Carse; 422/7 and 422/8 Tauhei, Piako County, H. Carse; 422/ (no specimen No.) Penrose, Auckland, H. Carse.

Carex geminata Schkuhr Riedgr. i (1801) 65, t. cclxxxvi W. No. 75; ii (1806) 28; Kunth Enum. ii (1837) 418; Steudel Syn. Glum. ii Cyper. (1855) 206.

• C. polystachya A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 118, t. 21 non Wahlenb.

• C. ternaria Sol. ex Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 92 nomen nudum; Forst. f. ex Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 89; in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 282; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. i (1864) 314; Boott Ill. Car. iv (1867) 176, t. 596; Boeckel. in Linnaca. xli (1877) 176; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 431; Man. N. Z. Fl. i (1906) 820; Kukenth in Engler's Pflanzenr. Heft 38 (1909) 369, t 59; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. ii (1925) 265.

• C. lessoniana Steudel Nomencl. ed. II (1840) 292; Syn. Glum, ii Cyper. (1855) 217.

Leaves 60–100 cm. × 1 cm. Basal sheaths with prominent transverse fibrils. Culms shorter than the leaves, stout, becoming slender above the lowest bract. Spikelet 10–18, geminate, ternate or quinate, often more or less approximate, the lowest 5–7 cm. × 0.5 cm., the remainder shorter, upper 3–6 male occasionally with a few female flowers admixed, remainder female with male flowers at the apices, pendulous on filiform peduncles or the upper ones sessile. Glumes ovate, shorter than the utricles, obtuse to truncate to emarginate with a hispid awn of variable length, margins narrowly hyaline. Utricles 2.5–3 mm. × 1·7–2 mm., saccate, inflated or unequally compressed, thin, soft, ovate to oblong, with a short beak, 6–10 nerved, olive-green becoming ferruginous at the apex when mature but not mealy as in C. confusa, lateral ridges prominent. Nut ovate to almost oblong, in lower half of utricle. Text-fig. 3.

Habitat: Coastal swamps and lowland areas up to 2,000 feet.