492 GRAMINACEAE. [ Paspalum, 
Flow eg agen i 3—5-nerved, pointed orawned 
he entire tip; phic terminal 31. Festuca. 
wept ey eis es 5—9-nerved, awne from 
below the entire or bifid tip; stigmas on the 
sides or face of an obtuse pubescent ovary 32. Bromus. 
Deducting 18 species, introduced and coed or cultivated at large since the 
‘arrival of the white man on the Islands, e remain 56 indigenous species, of which 
3, or 59 per cent., are peculiar to the Islands, ‘distrib ted among 11 genera. (Oft ese genera 
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Dissochondrus with 1 each, the latter the only genus or at least ett marked subgenus 
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emaining 23 Indigenoas species 4 are “spa also in other islands of the Pacific 
Ocean cl of these in Luzon); 1 in Australia only; 5 extend over beeper to Malaysia, 
N. Australia and “oat of rah even into Africa); “are spread ov pe ~ hemispheres, 
east a =e west; and 2 are in common with the American Content” only. 
Of e last one, Chloris radiata, although found wild in two remote » regions, was 
te on to the ae ad of eattle-ranches saree may pos ssibly have to be classed with 
the recently introduced s an 1 of the other, Bragioanls gee 
is still doubtful. It erate. ‘for rms a link in the series of true Hawaiian specie s. Thus 
is appears that in actual species our flora has much less in common with the 
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vegetable life on the pata Islands a paper connection existed with the western con- 
tinent, while at a later period hardly any American species have reached the Islands. 
TripE I. PANICACEAE. 
Spikelets with one fertile terminal floret, with or without a male or 
imperfect floret, rarely a perfect one below it. Pedicels articulate below 
the glumes, except in Isachne. 
BE I. PANICE. 
. Flowering glume and site hardened, bartitapteious or leathery after 
flowering, and enclosing the grain. Outer empty glumes usually unequal 
and smaller, thin herbaceous or membranous. 
1. PASPALUM, L. 
Spikelets one- —, plano-conyex, not awned, imbricate in 2 or 
4 rows on one side of the flattened axis of slender spikes which form 
the branches of a ie panicle or rarely are solitary. Sterile glumes 2, 
equal, membranous. Flowering glume coriaceous, concave, mostly orbicular 
or ovate, with its margins clasping the flat palea, which is of equal con 
sistence and 2-nerved along the m . Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous. 
Styles long, psn in their upper halves. Grain enclosed. 
A large genus, chiefly belonging to the American Continent, comparatively few species 
inhabiting the adhoc cal a of the Old World. 
Spikes : to 6, altern Ra ; _ P. orbic 
kes 2, conjugate sh ihe iop of the stem. wh. ae m. 
z: “ orbiculare, Forst. Prod. no. 7. — Steudel Sinoee. os Debeata I, bit ane 
An erect coarse grass, 1!/2—21/2 ft. high, tuft rous, 
leafy to the top. Leaves flat, oni 1—LJ2 ft. long, 2—3 u gue 
