Hitchcock — Tlic Grasses of Hazcaii 



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I. Syntherisma longiflora (Retz.) Skeels, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PL Iiid. Bull. 261:30. 1912. 



Paspahim longifloniiii Retz. Obs. Bot. 4:15. 1786. 



Stems creeping, as much as 40 cm. long, sending up flowering culms 10 to 20 cm. tall, 

 erect from an ascending base, glabrous, sparingly pilose at the nodes ; sheaths glabrous, shorter 

 than the internodes : ligule membranaceous, about i mm. long ; blades ovate-lanceolate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, I to 2 cm. long, 3 to 5 mm. wide, clasping at the sparsely pilose base, glabrous ; 

 racemes 2 or 3, digitate, slender, often curved, 2 to 4 cm. long, the rachis narrowly winged, 

 glabrous: spikelets 1.5 mm. long, elliptic, acute, nearly glabrous, the longer pedicel terete, glab- 

 rous, about I mm. long ; first glume wanting : second glume as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved ; 

 sterile lemma as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved: fruit pale, acute, as long as the spikelet (fig. 59). 



Fir.TRE 59. — Syntherisma longiflora. From Hitclicock 14186. Hawaii. 



