Gahnia. | CXLIII, CYPERACEX. 411 
"ses wes many Gahnie have from 4 to 6. The peculiar foliage of Gahnia is 
mplified in one species only of Baumea, some other characters, such as the black 
constant. Almost 
are 
rally two flowers, the lowest, usually very precocious, he perfect oi with 
an abortive pistil, the terminal one, always later and. sometimes very much so, 
has b gans ec i ith the 
lthough be er o 
of most Species, and the spikelets are rosa! exceedingly numerous, y" those of 
each specimen are generally in the same stage of development. In some the anthers 
wer male flo 
o t ripe 
are hanging loosely about or have nari fallen n 
that I have been able satisfactorily to follow the evsluginadt of the perfect flower 
from the sd inm g bud to the ny e dien 
In the s n Lampocary ya, includin e Sandwich Island E elotia, ignes 
the lower ae flower is usually de ficient, emm although thereis no imperfect flow 
above the fertile one, which thus as in other Gahnie usually termin yates the spikelet, 
there is sometimes a small em ty g MS b group inter: 
mediate as it were between Cladium and Gahnia as suggested by Brown, but much 
nearer to the latter than to the form 
Szor, I. Lampocarya Pte ets "T a single terminal hermaphrodite flower or 
very rarely with a second male o erfect one.—Panicle long and narrow, the spikelets 
in tia clusters or short spikelike | Vrai sessile or shortly pedunculate eee the 
achi 
"wh 3 P 4 lines long. Pieve glumes broad and 
ite se. Nuts about 3 lines long. Stamens 
: ease 4. QV UMNMFG, 
Spikelets wailed 2 lines Nuts 1 to 1 lines lon. ng. 
Clusters of spikes globular, Glumesaristate. Stamens 
4 
$a 4 2. G. trifida. 
Clusters of Spikcleia. at first oblong. Gime ‘broad, 
shortly acumin: Stamens 3, rare. . 9. G. melanocarpa. 
Secr, IT, E pikelets with a termina E teins Jlower and a pre- 
VA ECL 
cocious male or barren one below it.—Panicles (except in G. Sieberi) loose, narrow, thyr- 
soid or spreading 
Panicles ina and narr Leaf-sheaths not bearded, 
Spikelets densely clustered i in short spikelike branches. 
Leaves at the base of the stem long, citt with 
"3 points. . ach : 4. G. Sieberi. 
elets small in a lo loose narrow panic Hg 
Lea ve long, scabrous, x fe oa anne oe poin 5. G. micróstachya. 
Spikelets small in loose w spikelike gisto 
Leaves en the ra ne ation — with hooked 
. ,9r recurved points . 6. G. polyphylla. 
Panicles narrow, erect. Spikelets orc Leaf-sheaths 
bearded at the orifice icc 
Spikelets distinct or nearly : 
Ves smooth, wi a hated or recurved LEM. . . T. Q. ancistrophylla. 
. 8. Q. lanigera. 
] 
1 ves smooth, a subulate erect points. x 
“Ears ood clustered Leaves Ne erect points. cp E 
Selves irme : ; S de G. deusta. 
Panicles th very compound, with erect branches. 
nner sese dec rums rere 
