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17. Panicum hillebrandianum nom. nov. 



Panicum motiticoJa Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Isl. 500. 1888. Not Panicum monticolum 

 Hook. f. 1864. 



Plants perennial; culms erect, 10 to 20 cm. tall, rather stout; sheaths villous, pilose on the 

 collar, longer than the internodes; ligule densely ciliate, about 2 mm. long; blades somewhat 

 coriaceous, flat, ascending, striate, 3 to 6 cm. long, 6 to 7 mm. wide, more or less villous on the 

 margins, otherwise glabrous ; panicle about 5 cm. long, the branches ascending ; spikelets 3 mm. 

 long, oblong, glabrous; first glume scarcely i mm. long; second glume and sterile lemma equal, 

 the glume 7-nerved, the lemma 9-nerved, the sterile palea oval, less than i mm. long; fruit about 

 2 mm. long (fig. 87). 



Open mountain bogs. Originally described from the "swamps on the sum- 

 mit of Mt. Eeka, Maui." 

 Maui: Open bog at summit of Puu Kukui, Hitchcock 1473 1. Top of motmtain of 



West Maui, Mann & Brigham 435 (Gray Herbarium). 

 Hawaii: Puu Oo, Forbes 811. 



Figure 88. — Panicum forbesii. 

 From the type specimen. 



FiGURii 89. — Panicum cynodon. 

 From Hitchcock 15503, Kauai. 



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