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730 about ⅛ in. long, dark chestnut-brown. Perianth-segments equal, lanceolate, acute. Stamens 3, rarely 6; anthers ovate. Capsule equalling the perianth, ovoid-trigonous, subacute. Seeds ovoid, obtuse, shining, obsoletely reticulate.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 290; Buchen. Monog. Junc.'' 432. J. pauciflorus, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ix. (1877) 551 (not of R. Br.). J. brevifolius, Kirk, l.c. xiv. (1882) 382.

11. J. prismatocarpus, R. Br. Prodr. 259.—Perennial, laxly tufted. Stems erect or sometimes decumbent and rooting at the nodes towards the base, leafy, compressed, often 2-edged, not jointed, 9–24 in. high. Leaves always shorter than the stems, 3–9 in. long, $1⁄12$–$1⁄8$ broad, gradually narrowed to an acute tip, strongly compressed, flat, soft, multitubular, incompletely and often indistinctly septate; sheathing base long, compressed, tip with 2 obtuse lobes. Cyme very large and compound, with 1 or 2 short leafy bracts at the base; branches long, slender, divaricating. Flowers ⅛–⅙ in. long, greenish or greenish-brown, in many-flowered globular clusters. Perianth-segments about equal, linear-lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate, acuminate. Stamens 3, much shorter than the segments. Capsule usually considerably longer tban the perianth, pale, narrow, prismatic, triquetrous, 1-celled, placentas very feebly developed. Seeds ovoid, apiculate.—''Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vii. 131 ''(in part); Buchen. Monog. Junc.'' 311.

12. J. holoschœnus, R. Br. Prodr. 259.—Stems laxly tufted, creeping at the base, strict and erect above, terete or subcompressed, smooth, leafy, 6–18 in. high. Leaves few, equalling or exceeding the stems, erect from a long sheathing base, tapering into a long acuminate point, terete or slightly compressed, fistular,