GraminecB.] 
SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
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The outer or lower glumule of the neuter floret is as long as, and similar to, the calycine glumes : the 
upper one is very minute and rounded. 
6. Panicum tenuifolium; glabrum, culmo ramoso, foliis convolutis, ligula ciliseformi 
brevi, panicula coarctata, glumis subaequalibus acutis nervosis, floris neutri glumula supe- 
I’iori subnullo. 
Culmus glaber, erectus, 1-1^ pedalis, ramosus, rigidus : nodi glahri. Folia angusta, exsiccatione convo- 
luta, glabra ; vagina striatula glabra : ligula brevissima ciliata. Panicula 3-5 uncias longa, stricta, erecta ; 
rami flexuosi scabri, ramulis ultimis brevibus. Spiculw in apice ramulorum solitarise. Glumm calycinse 
glabrse, subaequales; inferior paullo longior, lanceolata, acuminata, 5-nervosa, superior ovata, 7-nervosa. Floris 
neutri glumula inferior glumse calycinae superiori omnino similis, superior minutissima ; glumulse corollime 
hermaphroditi sequales, albidae, nitidae, cartilagineae, glabrse, neutro breviores. 
This is alKed in habit to Agrostis tenuifolia, M. B. as figured by Trinius, Spec. Gram, fiisc. 3. n. 35 ; but 
is a true Panicum. 
1. Ortbopogon compositus; spiculis multifloris, floribus geminis hirsiitis, glumis ambabus 
aristatis, extex’iori parum majori, interioris arista abbreviata, flosculo neutro mucronulato, 
foliis lanceolatis. Brown, Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. p. 194. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. \. p. 306. — 
Panicum compositum. Linn. — O. compositus, vai’. Trin. Spec. Gram. fasc. 16. L 188. 
1. Stenotaphrum glabrum; sinubus racheos bi-quinquefloris, spiculis absque rudimento 
inter flosculos. Nees ah Esenh. — Trin. Fund. Agrost. p. 175. Nees ah Esenh. Agrost. Bras, 
p. 92. — Rottboellia dimicliata. Linri. 
Our specimens are of the variety with two flowers in each recess of the rachis. Rottboellia complanata, 
Sw., and R. stolonifera, Poir., also belong to this genus. Stenotaphmm appears to have little affinity with 
Rottboellia, and ought to come near to Panicum, in which latter genus Linnseus placed S. complanatum. 
1. Pennisetum calyculatim. Spr . — Vide supra, p. 72. 
Found in Oneeheow. 
1. Vilfa Virginica; paniculse lanceolatse contracts densse, ramis approximatis sparsis 
racemoso-compositis, gluma inferior! valvulis parum breviore, superiori eas mquante vixque 
superante mucronulata, ^ culmo ramoso, foliis distichis patulis convoluto-subulatis glaucis, 
collo utrinque barbato. Nees ah Esenh. — Pal. de Beauv. Agrost. p. 16. Nees ah Esenh. 
Agrost. Bras. p. 400. — Agrostis Virginica. Linn. 
1. Eragrostis variabilis; culmis erectis simplicibus, vaginis foliisque glabris convolutis 
rigidis collo barbatis, panicula ramosissima, ramis fasciculatis, spiculis 3-14-floris oblongis 
vel linearibus, palea exteriore acuto-mucronata glumisque dorso denticulato-hispidulis 
rarius glabris. Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. p. 408. 
Of this, Gaudichaud enmnerates three varieties, our specimens approaching most to his var. «. culmo 
procerrimo, panicula diffusa ; but all those in the Collection, although the stem be tall, liave the panicle 
contracted. 
1. Eleusine Indica; culmo compresso basi repen te ramoso, vaginis ore saepiusque et 
margine villosis, spicis digitalis strictis, spiculis subsexfloris. Nees ah Esenh. — Gcertn . — 
Lam. III. t. 48. f. 3. Trin. Spec. Gram. fasc. 6. 7i. 71. — Cynosurus Indicus. Linn. 
