THE MONTANE FLORA OF FIJI. 181 
Culm including inflorescence nearly 1 metre high, barely 2 mm. in diameter, 
with about 7 nodes above the basal leaves at each of which a cauline leaf 
subtends a cluster of spikes. Basal leaves nearly 6°5 cm. in length, 6 mm. 
broad below, sheaths about 4 cm. long, brown with colourless papery margins 
which ultimately become torn; cauline leaves shorter, sheath of lowest 6*5 cm. 
long. Internodes above the third cauline node becoming rapidly shortened, 
the upper part of the culm forming a leafy drooping inflorescence with dense 
clusters of spikelets at each node, spikes at lower nodes with very long 
filiform pedicels, as much аз 15 cm. long, becoming much shorter in the 
upper part of the culm. Spikes, exclusive of stalk, generally 2°5—8°5 em. 
long, tlie upper staminate part generally less than one-third the whole length; 
pistillate flowers about twelve, bract 3:5 mm. long, utricle including the short 
pedicel a little over 6 mm. long. 
Hab. In moss forest near summit ridge of Mt. Victoria, at about 4000. 
Fl. Sept. 795. 
А well-marked species near the Indian C. longipes, Don, but a larger plant, 
differing in the very numerous spikes associated with each stem-node and the 
larger pistillate flowers. 
GRAMINEZÆ. (Dr. А. D. Rendle.) 
PASPALUM FILIFORME, Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 22. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, land under cultivation. Fl. Sept. 867. 
Distrib. Tahiti, Hawaii, Easter Island. 
Uriginally from №. America, this grass has now spread through tropical 
and subtropical regions. It is a recent introduction for Fiji. 
IsACHNE VITIENSIS, Rendle, sp. nov. 
Gramen perenne, arundinaceum, altum caulibus ramosis aggregatis multi- 
nodis ad apicem foliatis ; foliis rigidulis glauco-viridibus anguste lineari- 
lanceolatis acuminatis scabridulis vaginas pilosulas sepius excedentibus, 
ligula breviter ciliata ; panicula erecta rigidula pubescente, ramis primo 
ascendentibus demum subpatentibus ramulos per longitudinem totam gerenti- 
bus; spiculis ovoideis breviter pedicellatis ; glumis sterilibus æqualibus 
(1:3 mm. longis) glabris vel superne sparse pilosulis rotundo-ovatis obtusis, 
inferiore 7-nervi, superiore 5-nervi; glumis florentibus coriaceis pilosis plano- 
convexis obtusis glumas steriles excedentibus, inferiore ovata 5-nervi florem 
masculum fovente, superiore elliptica florem fertilem fovente. 
A tall grass about 1 metre high with well-marked nodes and purplish 
internodes, the latter reaching 2 mm. in thickness and covered by the sheaths 
for about half their length in the lower part of the culms. Leaves to 13 cm. 
long by 1:3 em. broad, sheaths to 5:5 em. long. Panicle ultimately exserted, 
15 em. long by 7 ст. broad; lower branches 5 cm. long, the upper gradually 
