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Var. y. russa ; glumis russis (rubro-eastaneis), paullo minus 

 remotis (quoad caeteracum Schimper n. 1199 congruens). 

 C. expansus, Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 380, non Voir. 

 C. tremulus, Baker, Fl. Maurit. p. 409 partim, vix Poir. 

 Mauritius {Grey, h. Kew). 



Madagascar (Blackburn, h. Kew ; FCilsenberg et Bojer, h. Mus. 

 Brit.). 



it Species in India Orientals nondum reperttf. 



37. C. EBATICOMTJS (VaJil, Enum. ii. p. 360 partim, non Mich.); 

 umbella composita ; iuvolucri bracteis longis, umbellularum saepe 

 lineari-caudatis ; spiculis spicatis, lineari-oblongis, lutescenti- 

 brunneis ; glumis admodum obtusis, byalino-marginatis ; nuce 

 ellipsoidea, compressa, nigra, cellulis extimis quadratis non po- 

 rosis. — Torrey in Ann. Lyceum JNeio York, iii. p. 253 ; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. p. 15 ; Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 470. 

 C. elegans, Walt. Fl. Carol, p. /0, non Linn. 



C.favicomus, Mich. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. p. 27, " spiculis 7-floris " 

 (Pursh. Fl. i. p. 53), est C. strigosus, Linn. — C.flavicomus, Yahl, 

 partim e C. strigoso, partim e Cflavicomo nostro, descriptus est. 

 s America borealis : a Pennsylvania usque ad Carolina (Elliott, 

 h. Kew ; Hale, k. Carey in h. Kew) ; Carolina australis 

 {Curtiss, h. Carey in h. Keiv). 

 America australis (Burchell n. 8567, h. Kew) ; Brasil, Piauhy 

 ( Gardner n. 2384, h. Kew). 



38. C. tremulus {Poir. Encyc. vii. p. 264) ; umbella decom- 

 posita ; involucri bracteis longis, umbellularum foliaceis ; spiculis 

 spicatis, lineari-oblongis, fusco-luteis ; glumis obtusis, albo-mar- 

 ginatis ; nuce oblonga, obtusa, cellulis extimis quadratis, porosis. 

 —Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 16 ; Boech. in Linnaa, xxxv. p. 469 ; Baker, 

 Fl. Maurit. p. 409 partim. 



C. retusus, Nees; Kunth, Fmum. ii. p. 115. 



Pycreus retusus, Nees in Linn&a, ix. p. 285. 



Differt a C.Hochstetteri spiculis, floribus nucibusque minoribus, 

 a C.flavicomo nucis cellulis porosis, ab utroque umbella decom- 

 posita, nee semel composita. 



Mauritius (Siebcr n. 7, h h. Kew, Mus. Brit. ; Sfc). 



Subgenus 3. Jtjncelltts. 

 Juncellus, Griseb. Fl, Brit. W. Ind. p. 562; Benth. et Hook. 

 f. Gen. Fl. iii. p. 1044 partim.— Pycrei sectio, Kunth, Enum. u. 



