Hitchcock — 'I'lic Grasses of Hawaii 141 



Weed along- road ; introduced. Originally described from Tuiroi)c. 

 Oahu : Nuuanu Pali, Hitchcock 13778. 

 Hawaii: Ililo, Newell in i<M7- 



2. Lolium multiflorum I.ani FI. Franc. 3:621. 1778. Italian kvE grass. 



Short-lived perennials: culms 30 to 60 cm. tall, erect or often decumbent at base, often 

 rough below the spike and on the convex portion of the rachis ; spike as much as 30 cm. long : 

 spikelets as much as 2.5 cm. long, twice as long as the glumes, 10 to 20-flowered : lemmas 5 to 6 

 mm. long, at least the u]iper awned, tlie awn as much as 5 mm. long (fig. 26). 



Grassland at medium altitudes; introduced. Originally described from 

 Europe. 



Oahu: Honolulu, Hitchcock 13859. Schofield Barracks, Hitchcock 13917, 13923- 

 Molokai: Papaaloa, Forbes gg. Central part, Hitchcock 15152. 

 Hawaii: Paauhau, Rock 3461. 



11. LEPTURUS R.Br. 



Spikelets i-flowered, embedded in the hard, cylindric. articulate rachis. placed edgewise 

 thereto, the first glume wanting except on the terminal spikelet. the second glume closing the 

 cavitv of the rachis and flush with the surface, indurate, nerved, acuminate, longer than the 

 joint of the rachis; lemma lying next the rachis, hyaline, shorter than the glume, 3-nerved :_ palea 

 hyaline, 2-nerved, a little .shorter than the lemma; rachilla not disjointing, the spikelet falling 

 entire, attached to its rachis joint. Low annuals or perennials, with liard cylindric spikes. 



1, Lepturus repens (Forst.) R. Rr. Rrodr. Fl. Nov. lloll. 207. tSio. 



Rot tbo cilia re pens Forst. Prodr. u. 1786. 



Moncrma repens Beauv. Ess. Agrost. 117, 168, 177. 1812. 



Plants perennial, widely creeping, dififu,sely branching, the fertile culms ascending or erect, 

 as much as i meter tall, comn'ionly shorter; sheaths glabrous; ligule membranaceous, about i mm. 

 long, ciliolate ; blades flat, 10 to 20 or even 30 cm. long, as much as i cm. wide, glabrous on the 

 surface, scabrous on the margins, long-acuminate; spikes 5 to 15 cm. long, erect, strict, the 

 margins of the oblong hollows" membranaceous, the internodes about 5 mm. long ; second glume 

 twice as long as the internode, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, greenish; lemma about 

 4 mm. long, pale, oblong-lanceolate, the margins incurved; palea about as long as the lemma. 



This has not been observed on the main grouj:) of islands but is a common 

 shore grass on the islands to the south and extends to Australia and Ceylon. 

 Originally described from "Insulae intra tropicas," South Pacific. 

 Miclway Island: Bryan in igo2; Bartsch g2. 

 Palmyra: Rock 10 in 1913. 



12. TRISETUM Pers. 



Spikelets usually 2-flowered, sometimes 3 to 5-flowered, the rachilla prolonged behind the 

 upper floret, usually villous ; glumes somewhat unequal, acute, awnless, the second usually longer 

 than the first floret ; lemmas usually short-bearded at the base, 2-toothed at the apex, the teeth 

 often awned, bearing from the back below the cleft apex a straight and included, or usually 

 bent and exserted, awn. Tufted perennials with flat blades and open or usually contracted or 

 spikelike panicles. 



I. Trisetum glomeratum ( Kunth ) Trin.; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 1:229. 1854. 



Kocleria glojncrata Kunth, Rev. Gram. 2:611. pi. 219. 1834. 



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