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66 ME. H. W. EIDLET ON THE 



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W. In d. p 



M. Ind. Occ p. 116 ; Qriseb 



Hemsl 





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Toy. 'Chali.J Atlantic Isles, p. 130, t. xxiii 



The commonest species of this genus upon the island is identical 



with the C. atlanticus, Hemsley, obtained by Sir Joseph Hooker 



upon the island of South Trinidad ; and I am quite unable to 



brunneus 



mens in the British Museum. Swartz's specimens are small and 

 stunted, but the plant grows much bigger and is very common 

 throughout the West Indies, being apparently a sea-shore plant. 



Cuba. Tortola, St 



Martiniqu 



Florida. G 



Kunth 



rcp.urs in 



the 



longer, more cylindrical nut, and narrower, more acute, almost 

 unribbed glumes, and also in habit, and is the O. planifolius, 

 Richard, as is shown by a type from St. Croix in the British 

 Museum. C. brunneus. S\v., : occurs on Fernando Noronha, 

 on Eat Island, in the open country with G. liqularis, and on the 



island 



In the 



sand of Portuguese Bay and on rocks at the end of the Sapate on 

 Cape Placelliere was a more glaucous form with pallid spikelets. 

 In the open country it forms large tussocks very similar to those 

 of C. ligularis. It varies greatly in breadth of foliage. 



It is interesting to find this plant occurring in the West 

 Indies and Oceanic islands, but not on the South-American 

 continent. Perhaps it may be one of those plants which have 

 . been distributed by the drifting of their seeds in the sea. 



C. Nobokhje, n. sp. 



Planta rupicola flaccida, rhizomate brevissimo, basi dilatato 

 Folia plura, angusta linearia acuminata debilia, circiter 18 uncias 

 longa, 1| lineas lata ; carina et margine scabrida. Culmi 

 subaequilongi triquetri. Umbella radiorum 7-10 valde inse- 

 qualium patula. Bracteae involucri 5, longse lineares acumi- 

 nata. Radius longissimus uncialis, basi vagina castanea. Spicule 

 ad 30 in apicem congests, circiter \ unciam long^e, ferruginese. 

 Rhachilla crassiuscula, alis scariosis magnis. Spicule sessiles in 

 aisciB elevatis rotundatis. Grlumae duae ad basin spicule ; gluma 

 infima lanceolata subacuta, superior latior obtusa. GHumaa 













altera lanceolate acutse, ferrugineaB, carina viridis, costis 





elevaus 10. ' Stamina tria. Stylus longuisculus trifidus rufi 















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