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161. C. stramentitia Boott 



Pallescens: rhizoinate elongato obliquo pennam anse- 

 rinam v. gallinaceam crasso nodoso vaginis squamiformibus 

 ovato-lanceoiatisobtusis mox dissolutis brunneo-fu&cis vestito 

 stolonifero; culmo gracili stricto 1 — 2-pedali triangular! laeVi 

 v* sursumscabro,folioso; foliisstramineo-virentibustenacibus 

 culmo brevioribus plains longe angustato-aeuminatis su- 

 perne spinuloso-scabris utrinque subtiliss. celluloso-retieu- 

 latis, 2^2 — 4 1 /2 l' n - latis; paniculis partialibus tribus par- 

 vulis densis ambitu late omfu obtusis 1 — 1% poll, altis 

 pollicem circ. latis omnmo stramineo-pallidis^ superioribus 

 binis approximatis subconfluentibus, tertia remota, omni- 

 bus pluriramosis ♦ v. inferioribus simplieibus ; bracteis 

 duabus inferioribus foliaceis panieula plerumque multo 

 longioribus, suprema setacea abbreviata; rbachi primaria 

 c. pedunculis triangularibus ramisque setuloso-hispidis; 

 spieulis parvis in ramis brevibus eonfertis ereeto-patenti- 

 bus ohlongis c. orafo-oMonffts acutis teretibus plurifloris 

 %*/% — 4 tin* hngis* floribus inferioribus paucis foemineis, 

 superioribus numerosiorihus masculis: bracteis ramorum 

 illisque spicularum rnmufis depresso- orbmthtfh aristatis ; 

 sq nanus chartaceo-rigidis dense subquadrifariam imbricatis 

 nitidis ocaik acutatis striatis, inferioribus mu<?ronatis, 

 mucrone seabro, superioribus (masculis) submuticis; utri- 

 culo juvenili oblongo compresso piano- con vexo striatulo 

 abrupte in rostrum breve aclatum margine spinulosuin 

 ore integro oblique truncatum attenuato; stigmatibits ex~ 

 sertis validulis flexuosis brunneis;filamentis longe exsertis 

 antberisque longis tenuibus stramineis. 



C. stramentitia Boott in Hook, et Thorns, bb. Ind. or. 

 — 0. condensata fi flava N. ab E. herb. — Wallicb. 

 berb. n. 3398. 



