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natae. Stylus cum nuce subsequilongus ; rami 2, e gluma breviter 

 exserti. Nux iu forma typica cum § parte glumes sequilonga, in 

 forma macra africana g parte glunise brevior, in exemplis par- 

 vulis saepe vix gluma brevior, compressa, in facie interiore plana 

 aut concava, obtusa, brunnea ; cellulse extimse quadratse, albidae, 

 persistentes. — Forma andina reptans (sp. Boeck.) differt spiculis 

 angustis, castaneis. — Forma Andina viridula (sp. Boeck. = C. rivu- 

 laris, Steud.) differt foliis viridulis (nee stramineis) gramineis. — 

 Forma africana macra differt spiculis magnis (longis 15 mm. 

 latis 3 mm.) interdum tortis, glumis magis acutatis. 



Both Menzies and Hillebrand note that the finest mats in the 

 Sandwich Isles are made of this species. 



Europa meridionalis, Africa cum Insulis, Asia occidentalis 

 usque ad Indiam, Australia, Polynesia, America australis, et 

 Mexico. — Species cosmopolitana. 

 Europa: Nice (Bentham,h. Calcutta); Sicilia (Tineo, h. Kew, 



Citarda, hh. Mus. Brit., Calcutta). 

 Africa: Ins. Madeira (Lowe n. 77, h. Mus. Brit.) ; Ins. Canary 

 (Bourgeau n. 1568, h. Kew ; Lemann, h. Calcutta) ; Ins. S. 

 Vincent (Well nn. 99, 114, 138, h. Kew) ; Ins. Cap Verd 

 (Vogel n. 64, h. Kew ; Melliss n. 160, h. Kew) ; Mogadore (J. 

 D. Hooker, h. Kew) ; Niger flumen (Vogel, h. Kew) ; Libya 

 (Ascherson n. 2308, h. Kew) ; Kosser (Schweinfurth n. 2009, 

 hh. Kew, Mus. Brit?) ; Abyssinia, alt. 1000 metr. (Schimper 

 n. 2160, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit?) ; Mauritius (Sieher n. 15, hh. 

 Kew, Mus. Brit.) ; He de France (Du Betit-Thouars, h. Mus. 

 Brit.) ; Ins. Rodriguez (Balfour, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit.) ; Ins. 

 Socotra (Balfour n. 27, h.propr.); Arabia Petraea (Macdonald, 

 h. Kew) ; Egypt (Aucher-Kloy n. 3796, h. Kew) ; Suez 

 (Schweinfurth, h. Keiv; fyc); Alexandria (Aucher-JSloy, h. 

 Calcutta) ; Ins. Rhodes (Postian, n. 655 h. Kew). 

 [Forma macra. Mauritius (BlacJcburn, h. Kew) ; in fontibus 

 Nili fl. (Grant, h. Kew) ; Somali-land (Hildebrandt n. 1474, 

 hh. Kew, Mus. Brit.) ; Zambesi-land (Meller, h. Kew) ; Natal 

 (Gerrard n. 488, h. Kew); Cape-Town (Harvey n. 188, 

 h. Kew; JZehmann n. 1786 h. Mus. Brit.).] 

 Asia : Syria (Bote nn. 27, 30, h. Kew) ; Cabul (Griffith n. 1265, 



h. Kew n. 6215, n. 6215 h. Calcutta). 

 India Orientalis, in regione occidentali et Madras : Punjab 

 (Jacquemont n. 133, h. Kew; T. Thomson, h. Calcutta); 

 Kashmir, Bhimbiir (Stewart nn. 799, 871, h. Calcutta) ; 



