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SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
{Cyperacea. 
Ord. LI. CYPERACE^. Juss. 
1. Scirpus maritimus. Linn. — Engl. Hot. t. 542. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p, 210. 
2. Scirpus lacustris. Linn. — Engl. Bot. t. 666. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 209. 
1. Eleocharis obtusa; radice fibrosa, culmis csespitosis erectis teretibus inferne arete 
vaginatis glabris striatis, vaginis oblique truncatis mucronulatis, spiculis ovato-oblongis, 
squamis oblongis apice rotundatis uninerviis glabris, stylo trifido, acbenio obovato lenticu- 
lari-compressiusculo leevi glabro albido styli basi conica coi’onato. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. 
p. 414. — Scirpus obtusus. Willd. En. Hort. Ber. ? 
We agi’ee with Gaudicliaud in thinking the plant from the Sandwich Islands scarcely distinct from that 
found in North America. 
1. Fimbristylis cymosa; umbella decomposita involucrum superante, spiculis globoso- 
ovatis paucifloris, squamis ovatis, stylis trifidis nudiusculis, nucibus triquetris Imvibus, culmo 
angulato Isevi foliis strictis carinatis duplo longiore. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. p. 228. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. \. p. 202. 
Found both in Oahu and Oneeheow. This species belongs to the genus Trichelostylis, Lestib,, but it 
ought not to be placed in a different one from F. dichotoma, or from our F. affinis. 
1. Morelotia gahnioeforinis. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. p. 416. t. 28. 
This genus being lately established, and peculiar to the Sandwich Islands, we shall here give its character : 
Morelotia, Gaud.; — Spiada apice uniflora | squama, comphwes undique imbricatse, ovatse, coucavse, apice 
aristatse. Stamina 3, exserta, persistentia. Ovarium ellipticiim, sessile. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stig- 
mata 3, plumosa. Fructus elhpticus, osseus, lievis, nitens, sulcis tribus longitudinaliter exaratus. — The stems 
are caespitose, ei’ect, leafy, and cylindrical ; the leaves very narrow, linear. The panicles are terminal and 
crowded. The fruit is deciduous, but remains for some time suspended by the filaments, which become 
entangled udth the convolute apices of the squamae, 
1. Nincentisi angustifolia ; foliis angustatis linearibus culmo parum brevioribus. — Gaud, 
in Freyc. Voy. p. 417. 
Gaudichaud named this genus in honour of Bory de St. Vincent, but as there is already Borya dedicated 
to him, a second is, by all Botanical rules, inadmissible : we have, however, allowed it to remain, rather 
than create confusion by altering it. — We believe there can be no doubt entertained of our plant being 
identical, as a species, with that described by Gaudichaud, but the character given does not strictly accord 
with the specimens before us. We therefore propose the following: — Vincentia; — Spiculm subsexflorae. 
Squama undique imbricatse, carinato-concavae j inferiores concavse summaque vacuse. Periantliium trivalve. 
Seta hypogynse nullae. Stamina 3. Ovarium sessile, triangulare, anguhs acutissimis. Stylus 1, inferne 
dilatatus, triangiflaris, pubescens, cum ovario continuus, superne trifidus. Nux triquetra, basi styli persis- 
tente cuspidata. — To this genus belong Scirpus lavarum, anceps, and mdifolius, nor perhaps are there any 
good specific characters to be found between them: they have aU been usually refen-ed to Macliaerina 
restoides, from which, however, this genus differs by the absence of hypogynous setae, and by the scales 
imbricated on aU sides : from Lepidosperma it is distinguished by the nature of the perianth. 
1. Rhynchospora lavarum; glabra, culmis csespitosis erectis trigonis, foliis setaceo- 
linearibus rigiclis subcanaliculatis, corymbis terminalibus et axillaribus oligostachys, spiculis 
trifloris, squamis obovato-oblongis obtusis uninerviis glabris mucronato-subaristatis, acbenio 
subelliptico lenticulari-compresso l^vi glabro fusco rostrato. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. p. 415. 
