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Species 14; in America a Carolina. usque ad Argentinam sparsae. 
Genus forsan (cum Boeckelero, in Rynchosporam potius reducendum. 
D. ciliata Vahl Enum. v. 2 (1806) p. 240; Kunth Enum. v. 2 p. 276; 
Britton! in Ann. New York Acad. v. 7 (1892) p. 254; C. B. Clarke in Urban 
Fl. Ind. Occident. v. 2 p. 101. 
D. nervosa Vahl Enum. v. 2 p. 241 partim? (forsan omnino non). 
D. blephanophora. Steud.! Gyp. p. 135. 
Rhynchospora nervosa. Boeck.! in Kjob. Vidensk, Meddel. (1869-70) 
p. 143; F. Philippi Cat. Pl. Chile p. 310. 
Fere glabra. Rhizoma ligneum. Culmi caespitosi, 1 —3 dm longi, 
tenuiores. Folia 4—3 dm longa, 3—4 mm lata. Caput 4—2 em in dian., 
albo-viride; bracteae 4—7, usque ad 5—12 cm longae, foliiformes, basi 
albicantes sparse ciliatae. Spieulae laxiuseule spicatae, 7 mm longae, c. 3- 
nucigerae, Nux 1—1!/; mm longa, late obovoidea a 12 lineas horizon- 
talibus zonata; rostrum ovatum cum !'',—?/, parte nucis aequilongum. 
Chile: Cordillera (Bnp. 
Species in America Australi calidiore, in Mexico, et West Indies, vulgaris. 
10. Carpha. 
Carpha R. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 230 pro parte; Boeck. in Linnaea 
v. 38 (1874) p. 265 pro magna parte; Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 7 p. 381, in 
Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 4216, in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. v. 3 p. 10614; Desv. 
in C. Gay Chile v. 6 p. 191. 
Asterochaete Nees in Linnaea v. 9 (1834) p. 300; Benth. in Benth. el 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. v. 3 p. 1062; C. B. Clarke in Dyer Fl. Cap. v. 7 p. 269. 
Schoeni sp. Vahl Enum. v. 2 p. 224. 
Ptilantheliwm. Steud. Cyp. p. 167. 
Hhinchosporae sp. Spreng. Syst. v. 1 p. 195. 
Chaetosporae sp. Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. v. 2 p. 361 t. 146, 147; Desv. 
in C. Gay Chile v. 6 p. 192. 
Elynanthi sp. Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. v. 3. p. 1064. 
Oreograstis K. Schum. in Engler Pflanzenw. Ostafr. C. p. 127. 
Glumae subdistichae; 3 imae vacuae; sequuntur 4—3-florigerae qua- 
rum ima perfecta nucifera; gluma summa sterilis; rhachilla (supra florem 
imum perfectum) non elongata curvata. Setae 6, evolutae. Stylus longus, 
3-fidus, basi cum nuce continuus, persistens. Nux oblonga aut ellipsoidea, 
trigona, apice pyramidata. — Folia longa.  Panicula oblonga, interdum in 
"aput fere abbreviata; bracteae longae, ima paniculam superans. 
Species 12, Australes; i. e. in America australi, in Africa australi /cum 
insulis Mascarensibus) in Australia vigentes. 
