. 
Oreobolus.} CYPERACEAE. 483 
G. congesta, Beklr. 1. c. p. 353. — Morelotia gahniaeformis, Hook. & Arn. 
(not Gaud.) according to Mann. 
Wi he Oa nai! already collected by Chamisso. — The base of 
the achene exhibits the impr of the sah perigonial seales 
Jnti i nclined to consider the 2 es of he roca 
enclosed by the flowering glume and the pretirs one in G. Gaudichaudiit as tabescen 
ei 
urther th : 
scale is interposed between the ovary and the fertile glume, closely ssed against its 
median nerve. Forster’s description of @. schoenoides | in Gu ge . s Zee iti scart 
enh to this parec® a nts bivalvis ti e majore», nearly 
is the case in G. cheyi. 
5. G. leptostachya, Boeckeler, in Linnaea, XX XVII, 354. — Stem stout. 
Paiva stiff, very long, narrowing to a long-pointed aculeolate apex; the 
upper ner 3—4" broad below. Panicle ape t and narrow 
Ve—1 ft. ee compact, made u 2 spikes; these so- 
litary , eset, alternate, with short peduncles, bases eiéloued in 
the sheaths of very oe bracts, at first compressed, sublanceolate, 1—11/2' 
long, with ake crowded in vag the upper ones close, the lower 
more distant. Lower bracts 2 ft. long, their sheaths br nad and stiff. 
Primary rhachis eat: slightly flexuose, channelled on the inner (?) side. 
Bracts of fascicles se gaia like, bristle- pointed, very rough near the apex, 
two equal sharply keeled bracteoles, in their y er, terete, 
4” long. Glumes 5 or 6, closely crowded, emia iba pale, almost 
equal; the upper ones gradually smaller, convex, not ed; oblong- 
ob 
k 
tuse, not mucronate, pubescent. Style e 
, attenuate, somewhat 
eloped in herb. 
“4-cleft. — A single specimen with —_—, not = dev 
Berolin. — Lampocarya leptostachya, Schrad. 
Sandwich Islds. (Chamisso).» — Has much in ee ser G. ‘Beciegi The mature 
ethene is needed to settle the validity of the specie 
12. OREOBOLUS, R. Br. 
Spikelet compressed, 1-flowered, single at the end of a simple foliose 
Scape or of its fork- branches. Glum mes 3—5, subdistichous, the outer or 
middle empty ones largest. Perigone cartilaginous, deeply 6-part 
i . Stamens 3. Style 3-parted, deciduous. Achene ianaseoui: 
ovoid, smooth, not bea — Small tufted plants with stiff densely im- 
ricate leaves, their siudishe soon opening. 
4 species, natives of Van wee rear the —— Aips, New 
A genus of 3 o 
d Hawaiian Isla: 
tiv 
Zealand with pestle Islands, Chili, the Falkl 
1. O. furcatus, Mann, Enum. no. 527. — A small slau tufted 
plant, 3—4‘ high, repeatedly dichotomous from a short and thick ascending 
rhizome, the branches densely foliose. Leaves multifarious, — im_ 
