464 CYPERACEAE. (Cyperus. 
upward, the branches horizontal and close, rather loosely spicate along 
their atin length. Involucral leaves 6—9, very long, the longest 1—2 ft., 
scabrous also along the keel. Spikelets brownish-stramineous, horizontally 
patent, with a small bracteole of less than '/2, ovate-lanceolate, 3—5 
long, compressed but at last tone acute. Glumes 7—11, subcoriaceous, 
broadly ovate, keeled above, somewhat acute, sometimes mucronate, 1/2" 
long, 9—11-nerved, pale, ances reddish dots or lines. Rhachis flexuose, with 
broad hyaline wings to the lower halves of the foveoles. Stamens 3. 
Style deeply 3-fid. Nut acutely trigonous, dark brown, one third the 
length of its glume. — The scabrosities on the lower face of the leaves 
occupy the short transverse veinlets. — Benth. in Fl. Austral. VII, 284, 
also in eeman, in Fl. Vit. — Baker, in Fl. Maur. — 
C. canescens, + Vahl; Beklr. in Linnaea, XXXVI, 340. — Pycreus Owahuensis, 
Nees. — Mariscus albescens, valctvat in Bot. Voy. Freye. p. 415. 
In the lower regions; sometimes gregarious. Oahu (Meyen); Molokai! Waikol 
ear the sea; Ma awra). — Also found by y — The species extends 
from the Mascarene Islds. and India oer Malaysia, Austra s. China to the Philipines 
trali 
and most of the Pacific islands. — Viti, Ebon (Gulick), Tahiti, Marianas 
. Hillebrandi, Boeckel. in ee herb. reg. Berolin, — Rhizome 
ee and thick. Stem swollen at the base, rather slender, acutely trigonal, 
2/3—3 ft. high, foliaceous in ae lower third or fourth. Leaves mostly 
shorter than the stem, 2—4“ ater, slightly scabrous. Umbel compact, 
rather globose, 1—3‘ in diam either simple, 6—8 rays which 
are spicate Re nearly their aes length, or compound, the larger rays 
sending out a few short horizontal branches from below the middle which 
are spicate in the same manner. Longest involucral leaves 6—10‘. Spikelets 
horizontally patent, each pportes by a subulate bractlet of 1/2 its length 
or more, short ovoid an I rather turgid and somewhat obtuse, 
fulvous-brownish, l'/2—3‘ long. Giumes mostly 8, closely imbricate, 
rather thin, broadly obovate, rounded at the top and very shortly mu- 
cronate, convex with a thick rib, but not keeled, finely channelled or 
striate, but very indistinctly many- (9) nerved. Foveoles of rhachis narrow- 
winged. Stamens 3. Style 3-fid. Nut pale brown, obtusely iene 
with one angle less prominent, sometimes almost plano-convex, with th 
convex face ridged. — C. caricifolius, var. Hbd. (not Hook. & Arn.) in 
herb. Berolin. 
Southern slope of — Maui! on old laya fields, at an elevation of 3000— —5000 
ft. — Boeckeler places the species next to his C. Graeffei (Flora, 1875, p. 84) from Upolu 
of the Samoa Islands. 
6. C. caricifolius, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 99. — «Stem trigonal, 
l'/s—2 ft. long. Leaves carinate, scabrous on edges and keel. Invol. 
leaves 5—6. Rays of umbel eictisecly branching in their upper halves 
with several alternate branches, of which the lower are the longest and 
