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prorsus ut in mare ; spiculce feminece autem cylindraceo-lanceolatge, 

 l-floraB:, 3-4 lin. longae 1 lin. latae. Bractece infimae ut in mare, supe- 

 nores 2-3 oblongo-lanceolatae, mucronatse. Perianthuim minutum, 

 hyalinum, biseriale, sexglume, glumts subjequalibus, ovatis, obtusius- 

 culis. Ovarium obloiigum, stipitulatum, 1-loculare, supeme disco 

 earunculato flavido donatum. Stylus brevis, crassus, castaneus. Stiff- 

 mata 2, longiuscula, subulato-Ianceokta, intus villosa. Fructus .... 



8. H. NiTiDus, sp. n. Culmis pedalibus, simplicibus, compressiusculis; 

 vaginis culmeis l-l^-pollicaribus, arctis, coriaeeis, nitidis, sub apice 

 setaceo-mucronatis ; spiculis masculis 5-7, subclavatis, parvis, in ey- 

 mam terminalem paniculiformem approximatis ; bracteis laxiuscule 

 imbricatis, longe aristatis; glumis externis rigidiuscuHs, acutatis; glu- 

 mis internis oblongis, obtusis, aj)iculatis. Femina ignota. — Hypodiseus 

 nitidus, Nees ab E. MS, in kerb, Sonder. sine descript. 



Hah, Pr. B. Sp. Ex. sp. s. c?, in summa Winterhocksberg (Nov.), 

 Ecklon ! 



Cw/;;i/ erecti, pedales (et ultra?), siinplices, compressiusculi, olivacei, im- 

 presso-punctulati, basi squamis ovatis spadiceis dense approximatis 

 vestiti, supeme remote vaginati, vaginis arete convolutis, l-2-polli- 

 caribus, coriaceis, nitidis, castancis, obsolete nervoso-striatis, sub apice 

 obtusciusculo subulato-mucronatis. Spicules masculse 5-7? in cymam 

 terminalem paniculiformem aggregatse, sessiles vel breviter pedi- 

 cellatse, pedicellis arcuatis, singular 3-4 lin. longse, 3 lin. latae, ovato- 

 oblongae vel subclavatae. Spathce 2-3, vagiuiformes, spiculas imprimis 

 omnino velantes, postea aperta;, demum deciduae. Bractece arete im- 

 brlcatae, oblongae, longe acuminato-aristata;, coriaceae, fusca;, ad mar- 

 gines pallidiores, ^or6'5 ovatos v. subcompressos duplo triplove supe- 

 rantes. GlumtE externcB 3, aequales, ovatae, acutatae, rigidae, ferrugineae, 

 laterales naviculari-conduplicatae, carinatae, carina laevi, intermedia 

 nervo medio promiuente notata. Glumce internw 3, externis vix 

 breviores, hyalinae, planiusculae, oblongae, obtusse. Anthers oblongae, 

 apiculatae, dorso ferrugineae, demum exsertae. 



5. H. WiLLDENOViA. Culmis simplicibus, erectis v. arcuatis, com- 

 planatis, sulcatis ; vaginis compressis, arete tubulosis, subulato-mu- 

 cronatis ; spiculis masculis solitariis, oblongis, compressis ; bracteis 

 ovato-oblongis, obtusis, subulato-mucronatis; glumis inaequalibus, 



externis membranaceis, liberis, internis hyalinis, duplo longioribus, 

 plus minus connatis; antheris apiculatis : spicubs femincis solitariis, 

 1-floris; perianthio minuto, byalino, 4-6-glumi ; glumis distinctis, sub- 

 aequalibus; ovario oblongo, stipitato, disco epigyno (stylopodio ?) no- 

 tato ; stj^lis 2, linearibus, exsertis, intus villoso-stigmatosis. — Willde- 

 novia striata, Spreng.Syst. Veg. i. p. ISSyfide N. ab ^.— Lepidanthus 

 Willdenovia, N. ab E. Linn<say v. p. 665, quoad stirpem 

 Restio sulcatus, Kanth, Enum. iii. p. 404; Steud, Syrtop. ii. p. 25'1 

 * ariat culmo breviore, latiore, vaginis mucronibusque vegctioribus, 



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