Hawaiian Species of Car ex — Krauss 
265 
A B C 
O 'A cm. 
Fig. 8. Perigynia of Carex Meyenii Nees. a, St. 
John & Catto 17613; h, St. J.ohn 10382; c, Rock 
8732. 
tending 5-10 cm. above the rootstock, dark 
brown at the base; inflorescence 5-25 cm. 
long, pendent, 4-6 spikes arising from a 
node, 4-10 nodes per culm, each node sub- 
tended by a leafy bract 8-15 cm. long, lower 
internodes 2-4 cm. apart, upper internodes 
shortened, upper leafy bracts reduced to 
scales; spikes 2-3 mm. wide, 2-4 cm. long, 
androgynous, peduncles 1.5-3 cm. long, 
with membranous tubular cladoprophylla or 
ochreas 2-3 cm. long; pistillate bracts 1 
mm. wide, 3 mm. long, hyaline, keeled, ob- 
scurely nerved; staminate bracts 0.8 mm. 
wide, 4 mm. long, lanceolate, keeled, hyaline- 
margined; perigynia 1-1.5 mm. wide, 3-4.5 
mm. long, with body from ovoid to lanceo- 
loid, bi-convex to plano-convex, the base stip- 
itate, greenish-brown to brown, chartaceous- 
membranous, strongly 9-12-nerved on a side, 
rostrum one fourth as long as the body, often 
minutely toothed on the upper third, biden- 
tate, teeth 0.5-0. 8 mm. long; achenes len- 
ticular, minutely rugose in longitudinal lines, 
light brown to greenish; style and stigma 
3 mm. long, stigmas two, 2 mm. long, min- 
utely glandular, dark brown. 
Distribution: On all islands in Zone D of 
Ripperton and Hosaka (1942), or middle 
forest between 600 feet and 3,500 feet on 
ridges in full sun or in dense shade and on 
moist rocky ravine walls. Optimum develop- 
ment in semi-shade. 
Type: F. J. F. Meyen, in Oahu Insula 
Sandvicensium, June, 1831. The specimen is 
with the Meyen plants in the herbarium at 
Leningrad. Requests for the loan of plants 
from Leningrad were unanswered. 
Specimens examined 
kauai: Faurie 1201, Waimea, 1000 m., 
Mar. 1910, (KY); Fosberg 12673 , head of 
Kalalau Valley, 1250 m., Dec. 29, 1935; 
Mann & Brigham- 391, Waimea, 2000—3000', 
(C); Nuttall, Kauai (no data), (K); Nut- 
tall, Kauai (no data), 1843, (K) ; St. John 
22902, Kilauea Lookout, Kalalau Valley, 
4000', Dec. 21, 1947. 
oahu: Degener 19412, N slope of Mt. 
Kaala, Feb. 2, 1949, (NY); Faurie 1209, 
Honolulu, Apr. 1909, (GB) ; Faurie 1211, 
Kaala, Nov. 1909, (KY); Forbes 2463.0, 
ridge between Niu and Wailupe, Apr. 11, 
1917; Forbes 2323.0, Wailupe, Jan. 1919; 
Fosberg 10893, head of Makaha Valley, S 
side, 1500', Mar. 31, 1935, (US); Fosberg 
13040, head of Kapuna Valley, Mokuleia, 
600 m., Apr. 11, 1936; Fosberg 13602, head 
of Kawaihapai Gulch, Feb. 21, 1937; Fos- 
berg 13003, E ridge of Puu Kalena, 950 m., 
Mar. 22, 1936; Fosberg 13631, N ridge of 
Puu Kumakalii, Mar. 28, 1937; Gaudichaud, 
near Honolulu and the Pali, 1836, (K); Judd 
& Hosaka, Pahaia Valley, sixth valley E of 
Makaliha, 1200', Dec. 2, 1931; Krauss 122, 
trail to Puu Kaua, 1800', Feb. 29, 1948; 
Krauss 119, trail to Puu Kaua, 1700', Feb. 
29, 1948; Krauss 137, Papoli ridge above 
Maakua, 600', Mar. 21, 1948; Krauss 141, 
Papoli ridge above Maakua, 450', Mar. 21, 
1948; Krauss 148, third ridge N of Palikea, 
