60 
bus constructa, 20—6 lin. longa 8—5 lin. crassa; spieulis 
abbreviatis subrotundis apice masculis; bracteis glomeru- 
lorum Zongiuscule cuspidatis, infimis saepe foliaceis ad 
4 poll. long.; squamis foemineis chartaceis late ovatis acu- 
tatis euspidatis Izteribus stramineo-ferrugineis, earina vi- 
ridi obsolete trinervata, marginibus hyalinis pallidis; utri- 
eulis subcoriaceis quam squamae longioribus sessilibus 
(maturis) 13/,—2'/, lin. long. ovali-orbieulatis v. ovatis ex 
apiee sensim in rostrum breviusculum ore bidentatum 
attenuatis, compressis plano-convexis marginatis tenuiter 
paueinervatis subtilissimegue celluloso -retieulatis Tusco -fer- 
rugineis nitidulis, margine sursum dilatato serratis; eary- 
opsi utrieulo multo breviore ovato-orbieulata obtusa len- 
tieulari basi in stipitem contraeta subtiliter foreolato -reti- 
eulata v. impresso - punctulata fusceseente opaca; stylo basi 
parum bulboso-incerassato. 
C. glomerata Thunb. Fl. eapens. 1. 344. — Boott, 
81. t. 222. — CO. Brongniartii Kuntl, 380, — C. xalapen- 
sis Ejd. 1. c. — C. Brongniartii Boott, 124, t. 401 — 408. 
— Schiede coll. 871. — Bridges. eoll. no. 835. 
Prom. bon. spei (Eckl. et Zeyh. — Drege). Jalapa 
(Schiede). Chili (D’Urville, Philippi, Bridges). 
51. C. neurocarpa Maximow. 
Caespitosa; rhizomate brevissimo, fibrillis numerosis 
fascieulatis mollibus multiramosis testaceis; eulmis pluribus 
subinfirmis obtuse triangulis interdum paulo compressis 
laevibus suleato -striatis 8$—6 poll. alt. \/, lin. erass. basi 
foliatis; foliis confertis herbaceis virentibus culmum subae- 
quantibus v. superantibus anguste linearibus longe angu- 
stato - acuminatis carinato-subcomplicatis margine minute 
