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triangulari, vertice leviter constricta, angulis prominulis, 

 lateribus convexis subtiliss* punctataTuscescente, styli basi 

 incrassata terminata; stigmatibus excertis flexuosis antbe- 

 risque ferruginosis; rhachilla spiculae seeundariae brevis- 

 sima ac tenui, 



C. spartea Thunb. Fl, Capens. 1, 343. — C. indiea 

 Scbk. f. 80. — Uncinia spartea N. ab E. Linn. 10. 205 

 et Herb. — C. Dregeana Kuntb, 511 et Herb. — Drege, 

 coll. no. 2033. 



Prom. bon. spei (Eckl. et Zeyh. — Drege). 



180- a Sprengelii Bcklr. 



Glaucescens; fibrillis radicalibus tenerrinris rigidulis 

 fusco-atris; culmis filiformibus 5 — 10 poll, altls firmis 

 laevibus triangulis supra basin viz partem imrassafam 

 plurifoliatis: foliis ereetis rigidulis culitmm aabaequanti- 

 bus carinatis plarris complicatisve 1 — y 2 ^ n - latis margine 

 subtilissime serratis; fascieulis 5— 2 mbdufochyi^ supreniis 

 approximatis, reliquis dzstantibuslonge peduneulatis; bracteis 

 foliaeeis vaginatis spinas supenmtihus^ superior! bus setaceis 

 flexuosis; pedunculis setaceis (quandoque 3—2 poll, long.) 

 triangulis rhachique universal! laevibus> spiculis oblongis 

 ovatisque 3—4 Hn. long, floribus supremis paucis mascnlis; 

 nquamis parvulU pel f ftmdo-membranw vis rernotiuseiilis albidis 



dorso viriduloevidenter5— Ji-nervih^ masculisovatis v. oblon- 

 gis mucronatis muticisve; utrieults viridibus squama longiori- 

 bus suborbiculato-ovalibus turgid o-trigonis brerm* rostmth 

 striato-nervoais laevibus ore cmarginulatis, l l /i Hn* long.; 

 caryopsi arctiss. inclusa orbiculato-ovati triangular! sttb- 

 tiliter punctata lutea, stylo eoiiieo abbreyiato viridi coro- 

 nata; stigmatibus exsertis reflexis subtilibus pallide ferru- 



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