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H osaka 340, Kipapa Gulch, Waipio, S 
ridge, 1000', May 1932: a complete an- 
drogynous spike arising from a perfectly 
formed utricle 
Kraus s 348: an extension of the axis with- 
in the perigynia reminiscent of the barb 
in Uncinia 
Rock 8733, at the shore, Nahiku, Maui, 
May 10, 1911: a compounding of the 
spikes by numerous branchings from the 
base of each normal one to form a dense 
head 
Forbes 1862. M: extremely large fruit as 
much as three times as large as normal 
Carex montis-eeka Hillebrand, Flora of the 
Hawaiian Islands 486, 1888. 
Figs. 4 a-c, 5 
Carex montis-eeka Hillebd. var. viridens 
Kiikenth., Fedde Rep. 16: 435, 1920. 
Rootstocks loosely caespitose; basal scales 
7-8 mm. wide, 10 cm. long, 2-5 per culm, 
reddish, persistent; fertile culm, 2-3 mm. 
wide, 75 cm. long, with cross section triag- 
onal to semicircular, smooth, strongly veined, 
hollow, distinct from the leaves near the base, 
stiffly erect; leaves 1-2 mm. wide, 70 cm. 
long, 5-8 per culm, stiffly erect, clumped, 
strongly involute, glabrous, dark green; 
sheaths 15 cm. long, closed by a tight hya- 
line membrane; inflorescence 5-10 mm. 
wide, 2-7 cm. long, with 2-5 nodes, one 
spike to a node, lower internodes 1-3 cm. 
long, upper internodes shortened to 1-2 
mm., or all spikes arising from a common 
terminal node; spikes androgynous except 
terminal spike which is staminate, 3-5 mm. 
wide, 1-3 cm. long, sessile or short pedun- 
culate with an open ochrea at the base adja- 
cent to the culm; pistillate bracts 1.5 mm. 
wide, 3 mm. long, ovate, chartaceous, 1-3- 
nerved, glabrous, green to brown; staminate 
bracts 4-5 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, 
1-3-nerved; perigynia ovoid to lanceoloid, 
concave-convex to bi-convex, 1.5-2 mm. 
Fig. 4. Perigynia of Carex montis-eeka Hillebd. 
a. Forbes 418.K, b, Fosberg 10039; c, Degener 
8264. 
wide, 3-5 mm. long, toothed on the upper 
third of the margin, otherwise smooth, 1-3 
nerved near the center on the convex side, 
singly nerved or not nerved on the concave 
side, rostrum tapering to a shallowly biden- 
tate apex; achenes isosceles triangular in 
cross section, obovate, 2—2.5 mm. wide, 1.5 
mm. long, truncate at the base, rugose, 
smooth and slightly ridged at the angles, 
light brown, rostrum 0.2 mm. long, bent back 
on the achene; style 1 mm. long dividing into 
three stigmas 2-3 mm. long, dark brown, 
glandular. 
Distribution: on Kauai, Molokai, and 
Maui, in Zones D,? and Ei (Ripperton and 
Hosaka, 1942), the middle forest bog zone, 
in extremely wet, high bogs above 3,800 feet 
or in ponds in the bogs. 
Lectotype: J. F . Rock 8190, summit of 
Puu Kukui, West Maui, Aug. 21, 1910. 
No types or isotypes collected by William 
Hillebrand are available. The specimens were 
in the Berlin Herbarium, which was destroyed 
by fire in 1944. The entire collection of the 
Cyperaceae was lost. The collection of Rock 
cited above as the lectotype is from the same 
area as that cited by Hillebrand and contains 
many duplicates. It has been established that 
