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Kauai: Hilii Mountains. Forbes 630. TJhuc, Fnrl)cs 478, 4S0. 



Oahu: Waikiki, Hitchcock 13800. \\'aialua, Rock in 1912. Kalihi X'allcy, Hitch- 

 cock 14101, 141 17. 141 19. Upper Manoa \'alley. Hitchcock 13736. Fort 

 Shafter. Hitclicock 13846. Kaneohe, Hitchcock 13900, 13901. Schofield 

 r.arracks, Hitclicock 14031. Lower Pauoa, Heller 2384, 2384a. Without 

 locality, Mann & Bri£jham 24. 



Molokai : Kamalo Bog, Hitchcock 15105. Pukoo, Hitchcock 151 10. 



Hawaii: Hilo. Hitchcock 14T51. 14181; Xewell in i<)i7. Kukuihaele. Rock 4536. 

 Wainica, Hitchcock 14462. 



Without locality : Ilillebrand. 



I'iGLRE 94. — Ecliinocliloa co- 

 loniini. From Contr. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. Vol. 22, fig. 35. 



I"]i,UKi; 95. — Ecliinocliloa crusgalli 



crus-pavoni.';. I'rom Contr. U. S. 



Xat. TTcrl). \'ol. 22. fig. 34. 



41. TRICHOLAENA Scbrad. 



I"i<u-RE 96. — Cliactodiloa vcr 

 licillata. From Contr. U. S. 

 Xat. Herb. Vol. 22, fig. 43. 



Spikelets on .'^Iiort capillary pedicel.^ ; fir.st glume .small, much .shorter than the spikelet, 

 villous : second glume and .sterile lemma equal, raised on a stipe above the first glume, emargi- 

 nate or slightly lobed. short-awned. covered, except toward the ape.x, with long silky hairs, the 

 palea of the sterile lemma well developed ; fertile lemma shorter than the spikelet, cartilaginous, 

 smooth, boat-shaped, obtuse, the margins thin, not inroUcd, inclosing the margins of the palea. 

 Pcrcmiial or animal grasses, with rather open panicles of silky spikelets. 



I. Tricholaena rosea .\'ees, "Cat. Sem. ilnrt. \'rati-l. a. 183O'"; [-']. Afr. Anstr. 17. 1S41. 



X.\T.\I. CK.XSS. 



Plants perennial ; culms slender, erect from a normally decumbent base, about 1 meter 

 tall; sheaths glabrous, or the lowermost appressed-hispid, puberulent on the collar; ligule 

 densely ciliate, about i mm. long; blades flat, 5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 5 mm. wide, glabrous, or 

 sometimes pilose atout the base; panicle ovoid, purple or tawny, 7 to 15 cm. long, the branches 

 slender, scabrous, the pedicels capillary, flexuous ; spikelets about 3 mm. long, the silky hairs 

 2 to 3 mm. long (fig. 98 J. 



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