Panicum .] GRAMINACEAE. 499 
blade and sheath. Ligule short-ciliate. Panicle contracted. Sterile glumes 
subequal, strongly nerved, hairy, the uppermost with a very minute and 
ed ‘a lea.» 
Niiha ay and Collie); Kauai! (M. & B.). — A specimen collected in Hanapepe 
by Mr. Maz ann is ana and tufted, the slender stems 10—12‘ high, slightly deflected 
at the sponse tumid meter which are sparingly ciliate with long hairlets and leafy to 
es : > 
e to y overreaching the panicle, glabrous, linear, convolute, 6—10‘ 
ong. act 38—4', con cr the filiform rhachis and appressed rays quite glabrous. 
Spikelets on ped f nearly, their own length slender ovoid, 1—1} ointed, the 
two outer glumes ciliate w long spreading grayish hairlets. Sterile glumes ovate-lan- 
ceolate, subequal, the lowest (longest) 5-nerved, the second and t 7 ved, t tter 
ery m a. ile me 1/3 shorter than the third gl yles as in 
0. 4. — Found also by Wawra near the in Kealia, Kauai, and near Wathee, Maui. 
8. P. affine, Hook. d Arn. in c Beech. p. 100. — A densely tufted 
suberect grass, about 6‘ high, the whole plant, stem, leaves and panicle 
pubescent with soft spreading grayish ciliae, as in P. pellitwm. Siac a afy 
throughout, the leaves flaccid, 1—1'/2‘’ broad. Ligule replaced by ciliae. 
Panicle 1—2‘ long, not exserted, narrow, at last spreading; the rays single 
or two or three together. Pedicels about as long as the spikelets, these 
very small, */s“ or less, ovoid, rather obtuse. The two outer sterile glumes 
long- ciliate; the first and third perhaps a little shorter than the second; the 
first 3-nerved, the second 5-, the third faintly 5—7-nerved, thin, ponte 
and supplied with a narrow ee and very obtuse hyaline palea of 1/s its 
own length. Fertile floret pale yellow, as long as the third glume. — “The 
description from a small fragment of the original specimen kindly sent 
by Prof. Oliver and from M. and B.'s no. 283 in herb, Cornell Univ. 
Oahu (Lay and Collie); Kauai (M. & B.). 
9. P. pellitum, Trin. Diss. II, 198. — Icon. XX, tab. 237. — Erect, tufted, 
‘/-—1 ft. high, the whole plant, stem, leaves, panicle and spikelets pu- 
5° 
bescent with soft spreading grayish hairlets. Leaves flaccid, plane, 3'/2— 
se of the panicle. 
 8—12", its suberect rays single or 2 or 3 together, the lowest !/2—2!/2‘, 
scarcely dividing, bearing spikelets from near the base upward. Spikelets 
on pedicels shorter than their own length, slender ovoid and pointed, 
1—1"/4" long. Sterile glumes subequal, ovate-lanceolate, very acute; the 
, the latter glabrous, 
shorter than the sterile glume. Styles as in no. 5. — Kunth, 1. ¢. p. 133. 
— Steudel, 1. c. p. 78. — P. montanum, Gaud. Bot. Freye. p. 411 (not Roxb.). 
— P. nubigenum, went Le p8 Neurachne montana, Gaud. 
Général. p. 94, tab. 26. — P. piaujipmcle: Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. 
ich.) 
Oahu (Ch , Waianae Mts. se & B. no. 272); Mani! plentiful 
elsewher 
amisso, Lay & Collie) 
on the bare slopes above Maalaea bay and 32* 
