Hitchcock — 77/r (brasses of Hai^'aii 



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long, yellowish, tiie axis and appressed pedicels angled, S'hort-villous with ascending hairs; 

 spikelets glabrous, about 2 mm. long; glumes equal, lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved ; sterile lemma a 

 little shorter than the glumes, rather thin, 5-nerved, the palea oval, atout half as long as the 

 lemma; fertile lemma ;icutc, 1.5 mm. long: palea nearlv hi(l(k-n l)v the margins of the lemma 

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Type in the L'. S. Xatiuiial Herbarium, nu. 950341, collected at lialawa, 

 Island of Hawaii, June, lyoy, by Abbe Faurie (no. 1318). 



There are no data on the labels to indicate the habitat of the specimens, 

 except from Hitchcock's no. 15145, which ^rew on a sandy seabeach. 



Dr. Stapf has kindly sent me a fragment from a specimen in the Kew 

 Herbarium labeled "Sandhills. W'ailuku, AJaui, Wilkes Exped." This appears to 

 be the same as the specimen listed below which is without data other than "Sand- 

 wich Islands," but the character of the label and the handwriting indicate a collec- 

 tion of the Wilkes Expedition. In the C'lray Herbarium is a duplicate of the one 

 in the Kew Herbarium. 



IMolokai: West end, sandy beach, Hitchcock 15 145. 

 Hawaii: Halawa, Faurie 1318. 

 Without locality: "Sandwich Islands," U. S. National Herbarium no. 974867. 



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Fir.L'RE 71. — I'anicum I'auriL-i. Im-oiii ihc type specimen. Fjcvki; 72. — Panicuin nuljiyeinuu. i''runi Forbes J447. Oaliii. 



2. Panicum beecheyi Tlook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey \'oy. 100. 1841. 



Plants annual : culms branching and s]:)reading. 20 to 30 cm. tall, glabrous, scaberulous. 

 or puberulent, the nodes villous; .sheaths glabrous, shorter than the internodes ; ligule a very 

 short membrane with a line of hairs about i mm. long: blades glabrous or scaberulous. 4 to 10 

 cm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide; panicles numerous, narrow, lanceolate or linear. 5 to 10 cm. long, 

 white or tawny, more or less inclosed in the uppermost sheaths, the axis and branches angled, 



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