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America australis : Amazon flumen {Traill n. 1176, h. Kew) ; 

 Brasil (Swainson, h. Keio) ; Peru, Lima (Matthews n. 427, 

 h. Kew); Uruguay (G-ilbert u. 523, h. Kew); Pampas 

 (Pur die, h. Kew) ; Montevideo (Gilbert nn. 13, 188 [spi- 

 culis 40-floris], h. Keiv). 

 Ins. Galapagos (Anderson n. 53, h. Kew). 

 Var. /3. helodes (sp. Schrader) ; spiculis 16-30-floris, angustis, 

 pallidis aut subfuscis. — JSfees in Mart. Brasil. Gyp. p. 34. 



Stolones tenues, tuberiferi. Spicula? florigera? rectangulatim 



patula?. G-luma? per totam fere latitudinem striata?. — A cl. Boeck- 



elero G. rotundo appendiculato ; spicula? autem divaricata?, gluma? 



striata?. 



Amazon flumen (Spruce n. 1127, h. Kew) : Eio Negro, Barra 



(Spruce, h. Calcutta). 

 Brasil (Burchelln. 1656, h. Kew ; Swainson, h. Calcutta) . 

 y. Sprucei ; spicis densioribus ; spiculis majusculis, florigeris 

 aureis viridi-nerviis, fructiferis fuscis ; glumis laxiuscule imbri- 

 catis ; styli ramis longiuscule exsertis. 



Spicula? usque ad 28 mm. longae, 3-4 mm. lata?, 32-48-flora?, 

 sat compressa?. 



[These large American forms of G. esculentus very possibly 

 contain among them a separable species ; for Spruce n. 6114, 

 which may be considered the type of this var., appears to have a 

 strictly fibrous annual root, though that is a point on which it is 

 unsafe to rely on dried specimens that may have been seedlings 

 of the first year and yet in flower. I wrote up this var. at Kew 

 as esculentus, var. y. lata ; but there is another species very near 

 this (but not it) already named C. Icetus by Presl ; so that the 

 name Icetus must be altered.] 



America calidior : Chanduy, in litore maris Pacifici (Spruce 

 n. 6414, hh. Kew, Calcutta) ; Texas (Brummond nn. 259, 

 315, 359, k. Kew) ; Mexico, Potosi, alt. 2000 metr. (Barry 

 et Palmer n. 908, h. Kew). 



136. C. lutescens (Torrey and BZook. ! in Ann. Lyceum New 

 York, hi. p. 433) ; umbella subcomposita ; spiculis spicatis, 

 florigeris erecto-patulis, majusculis, densifloris, compressis, fusco- 

 brunneis ; glumis admodum compressis, ov atis, apicatis per 

 totam fere latitudinem plane striatis. — Chapman, Fl. South. 

 States, p. 508. 



C. rotundus, J. D. Hook. ! in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. p. 177' 



C. esculentus, var. y, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvi. p. 291. 



