320 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
duplo 3-plove breviore.—C. canescens, Vahl, Enum. vol. ii. p. 355 (excl. syn. Rheede). C. (Pycreus) 
Ow huensis, Nees ab Esenb. in Meyen. Herb. C. racemosus, Wight in Wall. Cat. n. 3359 b.; 
Wight. Cyp. n. 39. C. pallidus, Willd. Herb. n. 1364. C. holciflorus, Presl in Rel. Heenk. vol. i. 
p.178. C. stupeus, Sol. in Forst. Prodr. n. 496 (sine descript.); et Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. (ined.) p- 
209. Mariscus albescens, Gaud. in Freyc. It. Bot. p. 415. Cyperus parviflorus, Vahl, Enum. vol. ii. 
p.352. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, teste Storck, ** Davaira duna (dina ?).”—Island of Ovalau and Lado | 
(Storck ! n. 912). Also collected in the Hawaiian (Macre!), Tongan (Sir E. Home !), and Society 
Islands (Banks and Solander !). 
2. C. strigosus, Linn. Spec. 69; Kunth, Enum. vol. ii. p. 87 ; culmo 3-angulari, glabro ; foliis 
culmo longioribus, planis, margine scabris ; umbella composita, oc-radiata ; radiis divaricatis, apice 
digitato-ramosis, 2-phyllis; ramis undique spicis linearibus compressiusculis 6—7-floris patentissimis 
dense obsitis ; involucro sub-10-phyllo, longissimo; squamis remotis, oblongis, carinato-naviculari- 
bus, sub apice obtuso instructis dentieulo mucronuliformi, obsolete nervosis, carina viridi, lateribus 
flavescentibus ; rhacheola alata; achenio oblongo, 3-angulari, apicato, punctulato-scabrato, squama 
vix dimidio breviore.—C. Michauxianus, Schult. Mant. vol. ii. p.123. C.odoratus, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. 
Pacif. (ined.) p. 209 (et Forst. Prodr. n. 27 ?*).— Viti, locality not specified (Sir E. Home!). Also 
found in the Hawaiian (Barclay !), Marquesas (Barclay !), Society (Banks and Solander !), and New 
Hebrides group (M‘Gillivray !). 
There is no authentic specimen of Forster's C. odoratus at the British Museum. 
Orvo CV. GRAMINEZE. 
. 
Major-General Munro not having published yet his list of Hawaiian grasses, which he has in hand, I 
am precluded from giving in this place a general summary of the Graminee of tropical Polynesia. The 
collective Vitian name for Grasses is “ Co ” (pronounced “ Tho”), also used for Weeds generally. 
I. Andropogon, Linn. n. 1145, excl. sp.; Endl. Gen. n. 950. Spieulz 2-florz, flore inferiore 
neutro l-paleaceo, superiore hermaphrodito v. unisexuali, 2 v. 8, intermedia sessilis, fertilis, reliquae 
pedicellatze, steriles. Glume 2, tandem indurate, mutice. Pales 2, glumis breviores, inferior 
floris perfecti mutica v. in aristam producta, superior minor, mutica, quandoque 0. Squamule 2, 
truncate, plerumque glabre. Stamina 1-3. Ovarium sessile, glabrum. Styli 2, terminales ; 
stigmata plumosa. Caryopsis intra glumas libera.—Gramina, rhachi spicata v. paniculata; spicis 
solitariis, conjugatis, fasciculatis v. paniculatis. 
“Andropogon. Tana,” Forst. Prodr. n. 562, belongs to the section Heteropogon, and is most probably 
H. hirtus, Pers. H. polystachys, Schult. is found in the Sandwich Islands, (Macræ!); and Andropogon 
Vachellii, Nees, in Aneitum (M‘Gillivray!) The Lemon grass, a species of Andropogon, which the natives 
term * Coboi,” is cultivated in the Islands. 
l. A. refractus, R. Br. Prodr. vol. i. p. 202; Kunth. Enum. vol. i. p. 493; panicula spathis 
alternis; spicis conjugatis, submuticis, refractis; ligula membranacea, imberbi; glumis acuminatis, 
glabris.— A. Tahitense, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 71.—In sunny, dry places, Viti Levu, 
Lakeba, etc. (Seemann! n. 685). Also collected in Aneitum, New Hebrides (M‘Gillivray !). 
2.* A. aciculatus, Retz. Obs. fasc. v. p. 22; Kunth, Enum. vol. i. p. 505; Willd. Sp. vol. iv. 
p. 906 (Rumph. vol. v. p. 13. t. 5. f. 1); panicula contracta, erecta ; pedunculis 3-floris ; fl. 3 binis, pedi- 
