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M1, 201) is likely to exist also in the New Hebrides, it having been found 
in New Caledonia and the Fiji Islands. It has shorter leaves, and al- 
most smooth fruits. 
CYPERUS DISTANS (Linné, fil., Suppl. Plant., 103.) 
ANEITYUM. A variety with larger and less distant florets. In Samoa 
also, according to the Rev. S. J. Whitmee. 
GRAMINEAE. 
Corx Lacryma (Linné, Spec. Plant., 1378.) 
TANA, on the sides of streams. ‘The natives use the seeds as beads. 
(CENTOTHECA LAPPACEA (Desvaux in Yourn. de Botanique 
1813, Pp. 70.) 
ANEITYUM and TANaA. 
. 
Panicum composituM (Linné, Spec. Plant., 84.) 
SANTO, near the sea-shores; also in Aneityum. Several of the nu- 
merous forms of this excedingly variable species occur on these islands. 
PANICUM SANGUINALE (Linné, Spec. Plant, 84.) 
ANEITYUM, near the coast. 
THUAREA SARMENTOSA (Persoon, Synops. Plant., 1., 110.) 
ANEITVUM; frequent on the sandy sea-shores. The spikes sometimes 
above an inch long. 
\ 
CENCHRUS ANOMOPLEXIS (La Billarditre, Sertum Austro- 
Caledon., vol. 1., p. 14, tab. 19.) 
SANTO, on open hill-sides. The specific validity of this grass as dis- 
finct from Cenchrus Australis (R. Brown, Prodr. 196) requires yet to be 
further demonstrated. Sprengel (Systema Vegetabilium, Cure posteriores, 
page 33) regarded La Billardiére’s plant merely as a variety of that of 
R. Brown. _ Its destination seems to rest mainly on larger size, particu- 
larly of leaves and flowers. The segments of the inner involucellum are 
more densely bearded than shown in the analytic figure of the plate above 
quoted. Comparisons with C. calyculatus (Cavan., Jcon., v., 39, t. 463; 
C. Fainsis, Steud. glwm., 1., 419) are needed. 
