112 
lineari -Janceolatis acutis planis carinnlato -nervosis, margini- 
bus spinuloso - dentienlatis, inferioribus 7 — 8 poll, long. 8S—9 
lin, lat., snperioribus gradatim minorihus; corymbis terminali- 
bus ac lateralibus eompositis snbapproximatis; ramis ramnlis- 
qne subsetaceis divarieatis pubescentihus; spienlis 3— 8-nis 
conglomeratis ovatis obtusinsculis 2% —3 lin. long. ferrugineo- 
brumneis; squamis membranaceo -rigidulis late ovatis obtu- 
sinsenlis, muerone breviusculo valido erectoe, triuerviis Pu- 
berulo-scabriuseulis; caryopsi minntissima quam staminodia 
breviore subrotunda triquetra hası in stipitem longum attenuata, 
longe muceronata laevi v. elevato - pımetnlata pallida v. rufe- 
scente; staminodiis crassiusculis longe stipitatis ovato-lan- 
ceolatis v. angusio - oblongis, ucuminato-mucronatis, "mu- 
crone scabro, punctulis elevatis oblectis, ruhiginosis. 
F, robusta Kunth, 185. — 4 Bahiensis Lindl. et Nees 
in Cyp. Brasil.’ p. 108. 
Brasilia (Sello). 
FERNE En R 
Trib, 111, Hypolytreae N, ab E, 
‘ 
Spiculae compositae squamis numerosis undiqne imbrieatae. 
Spieulae partiales sub singula squama singulae, saepiss. bi- 
bracteolatae, v. uniflorae hermaphroditae, v. pluriflorae andro- 
gyune. Fios ventralis foeminens plerumque nudus, marginales 
masenli unipaleacei, monandri cum sterilibus saepiss, inter- 
mixti. Bracteolae (paleae) spieulas primo involventes, plerum- 
que carinatae. 
Hypolytreae N. ab E. Cyper. brasil. 61 (exel. genere 
Hemicarpha). — Kunth Oyp. 265. — Chrysitricheae N. ab 
E. Linn. IX. 288, 
