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788 7. C. Gunnii, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 95, t. 148.—Stems densely tufted, rush-like, very slender, terete, rigid and wiry, 9 in. to 3 ft. high. Leaves sometimes wholly reduced to sheathing scales at the base of the stem, but usually 1 long terete stem-like leaf with 2–3 sheaths below it; tip subulate, pungent; sheaths long, purplish-red. Panicle elongate, narrow, interrupted, 6–18 in. long; branches remote, slender, erect, the lowest sometimes 6 in. long in large specimens, in small ones reduced to 1 in.; bracts closely sheathing, with a short erect lamina. Spikelets not fascicled, distinct, sessile, 1-flowered. Glumes usually 3, lanceolate, acuminate, the 2 lowest empty; the uppermost fertile, longer and narrower than the others, and spreading in fruit; margins involute. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut pedicelled, ovoid or oblong-ovoid, smooth and shining when mature. 3-ribbed when young, tip large and tumid, pale-yellow with dark base and tip.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 304; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vii. 407; ''Berggr. in Minnesk. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund.'' (1877) 24, t. 6, f. 6–11. C. laxiflorum, ''Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.'' ii. 95, t. 148. Lampocarya tenax, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 277.

8. C. junceum, R. Br. Prodr. 237.—Rhizome stout, woody, creeping, clothed with pale-brown scales. Stems tufted, rigid, erect, terete, rush-like, 1–2 ft. high. Leaves reduced to 1 long and closely appressed sheath with a minute vertically flattened lamina, below which are 1 or 2 much shorter sheaths. Panicle short, spike-like, sparingly branched, ½–1½ in. long; bract at the base very small. Spikelets red-brown, ⅙ in. long, 1–2-flowered, the lower flower alone fertile. Glumes 4–5, oblong-ovate, acute, membranous, keeled, puberulous, the 2 or 3 outer empty. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut oblong-ovoid, obscurely trigonous, dark-brown, surface rough; beak small, tumid, puberulous.—''Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.'' ii. 95; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 305; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vii. 408. Lepidosperma striatum, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 279 (not of R. Br.)''. L. Colensoi, ''Boeck. in Linnæa,'' xxxviii. (1874) 328.

9. C. Vauthiera, C. B. Clarke, MS.—Rhizome short, stout, creeping. Stems densely tufted, rather stout, conspicuously