488 CYPERACEAE. [Carex. 
thick, the staminate portion terminal, !/ [s—1}/a! in length. Male fl. Glumes 
appressed, narrow lanceolate, rather acute, 3‘‘, pale and 3-nerved along 
the middle, dark brown at the sides. Fem fl. Glumges in 8 spiral rows, 
jeeertionbilit patent when mature, darker than the male glumes and ovate, 
cuspidate with a filiform serrate point, 2—3”; the lowest often more 
remote, HAETOWOr and longer, 3—5“. Utricle short ovoid, biconvex with 
two marginal ridges, 1'/2‘‘ including the short bidentate beak, pale or 
ark brown, shining, Achene obovate, complanate, smooth, dark brown. 
Style terminal, bifid. — C. Prescottiana, Mann, Enum, no. 533 
Molokai! pali of Pelekunu; Maui! Haleakala; Central plateau of Hawaii! W. 
Maui! (spikes rather slender ‘and pale), Boeckeler’s description was taken from a 
defective agen, (Remy 148) which had lost its male spike. The species agrees in 
every respect with C. icatmcotgeine’ haves Nepaul, with this seme sri that in the latter 
the lateral soles are said to - male: In young ‘specim of our plant their male 
termination is often very short, vin old Ina Molokai specimen 
an upper androgynous spike pescado at the apex, ‘another “near the base of the female 
portion 
4. C. brunnea, Thunb. — Boeckeler, in Linnaea, XX XIX, 145. — Stems 
1—2'/2 ft. high, very slender, almost filiform, acutely triquetrous, smooth 
or slightly scabrous, foliose in the lower third or half. Leaves longer or 
shorter than the stem, linear, 1—1/2 broad, flat, those of the stem 
closely sheathing at the base; very scabrous on edges, keel and upper 
face near the long-acuminate apex. Spikes slender, 1J2—1' long, all 
portion, stiff erect in a narrow simple panicle of 3—9 nodes and 5—12" 
in length. Lowest and uppermost branches of the panicle with a single 
spike, the middle nodes with a fascicle of 2—5 long and wiry single- -spiked 
peduncles or with a single branch, bearing as many short- stalked greenish 
_ spikes of 4—9” in length; the lowest bracteal leaf flat and longer, 
e other setiform and gradually shorter than their branches. Staminate 
aii as long as the pistillate or longer. Glumes ovate, acute, 11/3", 
1-nerved, pale rufous. Stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, obtuse. Pistillate 
portion. Glumes few (5—9), rather distant, appressed, broader than those 
of the male flowers and with a green keel, mucronate or not, ciliate near 
the apex. Utricles longer than their glumes, stipitate, elliptico - gee 
plano-convex, many-lined, gradually drawn out into a long bidentate neck, 
thin, green, — on the margins. Achene obovate-oblong, compressed, 
with ridged margins, smooth, pale. Style terminal, slightly swollen at the 
base, bifid, with reddish re — Schkuhr, Car. II, 16, tab. 10. — 
¢. Commersoniana, Kunth, l. c. p. 391. — Mann, Enum. no. 529. — C. 
Meyenii, Nees. — Steudel, epee Pl. Glum. II, 195. — Mann, Enum. 
no. 530. — C. Remyi (Remy 141), Beklr., in Hom, 1875, p. 264. 
Oahu! Niu, Wailupe, and Waianae Mts.; Lanai! on the highest ridge. 
