470 CYPERACEAE. [Kyllingia. 
cylindrical spikes of 4—5“ in thickness. Involucral leaves numerous, all much 
longer than the umbel, the longest 7 times its length. Spikelets dark brown, 
suberect or adpressed, ovato-lanceolate, 2‘, compressed, 1-flowered. Glumes 
, including the glume-like bractlet, thin chartaceous, the two lowest 
smaller acute and serrulate at the sharp keel, the fertile one 1'/2‘', ovate 
or obovate, somewhat acute, navicular, pale, faintly 11-nerved, with the 
stiff brown keel slightly dentate or smooth, the upper one tabescent. 
Rhachis narrowly margined. Stamens 3; ths trifid, both long-exserted 
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and brownish. ene elongate, i the length bok its glume, trigonal, 
long apiculate , dark brown. — Seem. Fl. V iq p. 
Hawaii! geile Loa Aléteach. Kohala; mee ! ats lu; on si grassy slopes. 
Occurs also on the Viti Islands. robntg Us ir Brongn., m Bolabola, ooly 
differs in ne smooth keel of its glum 
me C. (Mariscus) steieabictiala! Mai Enum. no. 511. — «Stem trigonal, 
. Leaves linear, scabrous at the margins, equalling the stem. 
seseraseal leaves 6—8, two of them elongate. Spikes several, ovate, sub- 
sessile or shortly Perea closely crowded. Lower glumes very small, 
the middle ones 3 tim s long, 9-nerved, smooth, the inner (upper. 
most) ones shorter, 1- sated. 
Mountains of Hawaii, Maui _ Kauai. sage than C. phleoides, and the spikes 
sry (M. & B. 246). Collected a by Wawra (v. Reichardt ut supra). — The number 
of glumes can hardly be inferred wer the short bbe sore but it probably corresponds 
with that of the preceding species 
(Mariscus) caanaiaieias’ Vahl. — Kunth, 1. ¢. p. 118. — Stem 
in, pale, as long as the stem or shorter 
on margins and keel near the apex. Umbel simple, with about 8 rather 
spreading rays, the longest 2‘, naked below but densely spicate in the upper 
alf or third, their ochreae very short, bicuspid. Most involucral leaves 
several times longer than the um pikelets 2—3“, horizontal when 
mature (each with a short subulate alltel of less than 1%), Mae slender 
linear, acute, scarcely compressed, 1—3-flowered. Glumes 4—5, ¢ the 
uppermost often sterile, the fertile ones elongate, obtuse, 6 a2" long, 
not mucronate, thin and pale, eincish eiamibae with a thick and green 
3-nerved ri achis slender and very narrow-margined. Stamens 3, 
short. Style 3-cleft. Nut oblong, ear brownish, not much shorter 
268 e glume. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. and Fl. Austral. — Steudel, |. ¢. 
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oe specim collection, without label. The species has not before bee 
reported from this. sop, it rag widely spread over the tropical regions of the old 
World and has been found in Tahiti and on the W. coast of N. America. 
2. KYLLINGIA, Rottb. 
Spikelets 1-flowered or with a second minute sterile floret above, small 
and closely imbricate in globular or oblong heads or short spikes; the 
