llitclicock — I'Jic Crosses of Hawaii 



197 



17 '^'■nicuni hillebrandianum ncjin.nov. 



i'anicKiii iiioiilicoUi llillclir. l'"l. I law. Isl. i^oo. 1888. Not Panicnm monticolum 

 ' f. 1864. 



Plants purennial ; culms erect, 10 to 20 cm. tall, rather stout; sheaths villous, pilose on the 



'■' longer than the internodes; ligule densely ciliate, alxjut 2 mm. lony ; blades somewhat 



IS, flat, ascending, striate, 3 to 6 cm. long, 6 to 7 mm. wide, more or less villous on the 



, otherwise glabrous; panicle about 5 cm. long, the branches ascending; spikelets 3 mm. 



)long, glabrous; first glume .scarcely i mm. long; second glume and sterile lemma equal, 



ame 7-nerved, the lemma 9-nervcd, the sterile palea oval, less than i mm. long; fruit alK)ut 



long (fig. 87). 



Open motintain bogs. Originally described from the "swamps on the sum- 

 n^' Mt. Eeka, Maui." 

 Rx. : Open bog at summit of Puu Kukui, Hitchcock 14731. Top of mountain of 



West Maui, Mann & Brigham 435 (Gray Herbarium). 

 Hawaii: Puu Oo, Forbes 811. 



KicuRE 88. — Panicuni forbesii. 

 From the type specimen. 



Figure 89. — Panicum cynodoii. 

 From Hitchcock 15503, Kauai. 



[99 J 



