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lata 3 mm, 10-14-flora>; rhachilla alas late, purpureo- 

 maculatae, insolubiles. 

 Abyssinia : in lateribus monfcium Schoata {Sckimper n. 1391, 

 h. Calcutta). 



139. 0. SPHACELATU3 {Rottb. Descr. et Ic. p. 26); viridis, 

 radice fibrosa; umbella composita aut fere simplice; spiculis 

 spicatis, liaearibus ; rhachill® alis admodum angustis, insolu- 

 bilibus. — Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 63; Boech. in Linncea, xxxvi. 



p. 292. 

 Brasilia : prov. Rio Negro, Barra {Spruce, h. Calcutta). 



140. C. setigeefs {Torr. and Hook, in Ann. Lyceum New 

 York, iii. p. 434) ; umbella magna, composita ; umbellulis corym- 

 bosis, radiolis longius bracteatis ; spiculis spicatis, acute lineari- 

 lanceolatis. — Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvi. p. 298. 



[This has been issued from Kew marked C. longus, Linn. ; 

 and it is so exceedingly like some of the large forms of C. longus, 

 Linn., that, in the absence of the rhizome, it is difficult to express 

 an opinion whether it should be considered specifically distinct.] 



Texas {Drummond, h. Calcutta). 



141. C. stbigostts {Linn. Mant. p. 62, excl. syn. Sloane) ; 

 foliis bracteisque angustis, longis; umbella subsimplice; spicis 

 cylindricis, densiusculis ; spiculis rectangulatim patentibus, 

 lineari-lanceolatis, compressis; rhachillae alis angustis, insolu- 

 bilibus. — Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 87; Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvi. 

 p. 346. 



Radix fibrosa. Culmus basi ipsa incrassatus, aliquando con- 

 spicue bulbosus (bulbo parvo globoso). Umbellae radii 5-6, 

 usque ad 4 cm. longse, 12-30-spiculosae. Spiculse long® 16 mm, 

 latae 2-3 mm, 14-20-flora?, stramineae aut luteae. Nux \ parte 

 glumse brevior, oblonga, trigona. 



[This plant appears to me allied to C. Thomasi, and still more 

 closely to C. lucidulus. The glumes fall one by one from the 

 spikelets, beginning with the lowest glume and proceeding 

 regularly upwards till the rhacbilla of the spikelet is left entire 

 still attached to the spike with only a few glumes at the apex. 

 This is altogether the character of Eucyperus. It is true that 

 subsequent to this the spikelets (very late) are broken from the 

 spikes, as occurs also in all other species of Eucyperus at last. 

 Also, in C. strigosus, the disk-bike papillae on the old rhachises 



