Baumea.]) CYPERACEAE. 479 
which as a thinner pellicle extends nearly to the base. — Steudel, Synops. 
Pl. Glum. II, 152. — Mann, Enum. no. 521. — C. Mariseus, Kunth, Enum. 
Pl. If, 303. — Beklr., in Linnaea, XX XVIII, 232. 
mpy places on all oe but by no means frequent. Oahu! Palolo; Molokai! 
Kamalo, near the sea; W. M ! Oloalu; Hawaii! manish distinct from the widely 
4g ad C. Mariscus, R. Br., rey “the scaly rhizome and the mostly divided gta ner ee 
n the head herigg the fleshy style- nla appears as a distinct fungosity on the top of 
of e oblong o 
9. BAUMEA, Gaud. 
Spikelets ovoid, subcompressed, 1—3-flowered, but 1 or 2 florets only 
fertile. Glumes few, subdistichous, carinate with scabrous keel. Hypo- 
gynous bristles or iealen wanting. Stamens 3, exserted. Style 3-cleft, 
with thickened puberulous base. Achene osseous, trigonous, beaked with 
bracts, on the tortuous compressed branches of panicles; the lower branches 
and branchlets of these partly enclosed in the sheaths of floral leaves and 
acts 
A genus of about 20 species, macys Australasian, but extending to the Mascarene aa, 
and aoe ascar on one side a o Japan and the Pacific islands (Marianas, Haw 
New Zealand) on the other. ae he stra fake ies approach so closely to Cindi pt 
Sabaay has thought best to unite the — genera, together with Vincentia, in one genus. 
Having re only to our species, it rs to m rhea Baumea and Vincentia might 
well be joined, yor that Cladium Scant to stand apar 
1. B. Meyenii, Kunth, Enum. Pl. I, 314. — Stems 2—3 ft. high, com- 
obi 2-edged, sas scabrous at the sharp angles. Leaves as long or 
longer, 3—6” broad, straight, acute, closely imbricate and clasping, with 
arrow, apparently sien slit at the base, without manifest rib or keel, 
roughish on the outer cen near the apex, corresponding to the keel, 
otherwise smoot n to glaucous. Inflorescence a narrow and 
Open, partly folinnestin oe of 10—16‘ in length, with lowest divisions 
6—10“ long; its rhachis compressed and scabrous, flexuose in a zigzag 
manner, with one division to each curve and the internodes alternately 
channelled on opposite sides. Bracteoles short ovate and clasping. Spikelets 
1—2-flowered, ovate, compressed or plano-convex, 3“, fawn-colored, in 
distant and sessile clusters of 3—5. Glumes 4 or 5, stiff, boat-shaped, 
2" long, not mucronate, 1-nerved, with scabrous keel, pale yellowish- 
brown, with darker dots, the 2 or 3 lowest empty and smaller, the upper- 
most one tabesce: y pubescent, substipitate, elongate , not 
ined. Style deeply 3-cleft, pubescent at the dilated base. Achene 
obovoid, mal or : r 1”, reddish, shining, crustaceous, 
with a slender conical pale beak of its own length or more, — Beklr. in 
