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Memoirs Bcniicc P. Bishop Musciiin 



Kauai : Hihi ^Mountains, Forbes 630. Lihue, Forbes 478. 480. 



Oahu : W'aikiki. Hitchcock 13800. Waialvia, Rock in 1912. Kalihi \'alley. Hitch- 

 cock 14101, 141 17, 141 19. Upper Manoa \'alley, Hitchcock 13736. Fort 

 Shafter, Hitchcock 13846. Kaneohe. Hitchcock 13900, 13901. Schofield 

 Barracks. Hitchcock 14031. Lower Patioa, Heller 2384. 2384a. Without 

 locality, Mann & Brigham 24. 



Molokai : Kanialo Bog, Hitchcock 15105. Pukoo, Hitchcock 151 10. 



Hawaii: Hilo. Hitchcock 14151, 14181; Newell in 1917. Kukuihaelc, Rock 4536. 

 Waimea. Hitchcock 14462. 



Without locality: Hillebrand. 



mm 



Figure 94. — Ecliinocliloa co- 

 lonum. From Coiitr. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. Vol. 22, fig. 35. 



FiGURiC 95. — Echinocliloa crusgalli 



crus-pavonis. I'roni Contr. I". S. 



Nat. Herb. Vol. 22, fig. .^4. 



Figure 96. — Cbactochloa vor 

 licillata. From Contr. U. S. 

 Xat. Herb, Vol. 22, fig. 43. 



41. TRICHOLAENA Schrad. 



Spikelets on .-^liort capillary pedicels : first glume stiiall. imich shorter than the spikelet, 

 villous; second g-hime and sterile lemma equal, raised on a stipe above the first glume, emargi- 

 nate or slightly lobed, short-awned, covered, except toward the apex, with long silky hairs, the 

 palea of the sterile lemma well developed ; fertile lemma shorter than the spikelet, cartilaginous, 

 smooth, boat-shaped, obtuse, the margins thin, not inrolled, inclosing the margins of the palea. 

 Perennial or annual grasses, witli rather open panicles of silky spikelets. 



1. Tricholaena rosea Xees, "Cat. Sem. Ilort. \ratisl. a. 1836"; Fl. .\fr. .\ustr. 17. 1841. 



X.\T.\I, i:.K.\S.s. 



Plants perennial ; culms slender, erect from a normally decumbent base, about i meter 

 tall ; sheaths glabrous, or the lowermost appressed-hispid, puberulent on the collar ; ligule 

 densely ciliate, about i mm. long; blades flat, 5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 5 mm. wide, glabrous, or 

 sometimes pilose about the base: panicle uvoid, purple or tawny, 7 to 15 cm. long, the branches 

 slender, scabrous, the pedicels capillary, flexuous; spikelets about 3 mm. long, the silky hairs 

 2 to 3 mm. long (fig. 98). 



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