Heller : plants of the Hawaiian islands. 799 



Collected on the Island of Oahu, in Pauoa, by Mr. A. A. Hel- 

 ler, in 1895, No. 2321. By Dr. Hillebrand, in the Flora of the 

 Hawaiian Islands, it was considered identical with Panicum fili- 

 forme L. , under which name it there appears. The whole gen- 

 eral aspect of the plant and the flat, not triangular, rachis 

 plainly indicate its dissimilarity to that species. 



Syntherisma sauguinalis (L.) Nash, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 22:420. 1895. 

 Panicum sanguinale L. Sp. PI. 57. 1753. 

 Common in cultivated ground about Honolulu. Collected in 

 Pauoa valley, in company with S. Helleri. 



May 16 (2320); original locality, "in America, Europa aus- 

 tral i." 



CYPERACEAE.* 

 BAUMEA Gaud. Bot. Voy. Uranie, 416, pi. 29. 1830. 

 Banmea meyenii Kunth, Enum. PI. 2:314. 1837. 



A plant referred with some doubt to this species, was first 

 collected at about 3000 feet elevation, on the ridge west of the 

 Hanapepe river, Kauai, on an exposed gravelly slope. It was 

 also collected in wet woods along the Wahiawa river, and on 

 the island of Oahu, on the slopes of Konahuanui. 

 July to October (2651). 



CAREX L. Sp. PL 972. 1753. 



Carex wahuensis C.A.Meyer, Mem. Sav. Etr. Petersb. 1:218. 

 pi. 10. 1831. 



Collected on grassy slopes at 2500 feet elevation, above Wai- 

 mea, Kauai. 



October 10 (2849). 



CLADIUM P. Browne. Civ. and Nat. Hist. Jam. 114. 

 1756. 



Cladium leptostachyum Nees & Meyen, Beitr. Bot. Gesell. 

 auf ein Keise, 115. 1843. 



Noticed at only one locality, on the left bank of the Hana- 

 pepe, opposite the first ford, where a large clump of it was 

 growing. It is recorded as occurring on "all the islands, but 

 by no means frequent." 



July 5 (2509); original locality, " in insula Oahu, Sand- 

 wicensium." 



* The determinations by Dr. N. L. Britton. 



