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Baron has also refound (458 !) the oldest known species of this 
genus, M. pubescens, Kornicke (Eriocaulon pubescens, Lam.); and 
Dr. Kornicke has lately described a new one (M. Rutenbergianum, 
Kornicke) discovered by Rutenberg. 
GLUMIFER Æ. 
CyPERUS, Linn. (Auctore C. B. OLARKE, hinc ad finem p. 296.) 
Subgenus I. Pycreus. Stylus semper 2fidus. Nux glume 
contrarie compressa. 
* Nucis cellule estime oblonge, longitudinaliter nec transversim 
site. [In omnibus speciebus Cyperi, nisi hujus sectionis, nucis 
cellule extime quadrato-hexagone, neque elongate sunt. ] 
l. C. ruavescens, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 68, nec Linn. herb. propr. ; 
nuce obovoidea nigro-castanea, non aut obscure transversim albo- 
notata. 
Var. f. abyssinica; culmis sepe elongatis, nuce conspicue 
transversim albo-notata.— C. abyssinicus (sp.), Hochst.!; Steud. 
Cyp. p. 4; Beck. in Linnea, xxxv. p. 440, non Oliver.—C. fla- 
vescens, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. p. 474. 
MADAGASCAR CENTRALIS, Baron n. 636.—DisTRIB. Africa a 
Madera et Abyssinia usque ad Natal. Mentone. 
Nux in eadem umbellula plus minus conspicue transversim 
notata. 
2. C. LANCEOLATUS, Poir. Encycl. vii. p. 245; nuce ellipsoidea 
compressa brunnescente: Back. in Linnea, xxxv. p. 442.—C. in- 
termedius, Steud. in Flora, 1842, p. 581; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. 
p. 483 (inter species Eucyperi perperam ordinata); Back. in 
Linnea, xxxv. p. 450, var.  excl.—C. Eragrostis, Krauss in 
Flora, 1845, p. 754, non Vahl. 
MADAGASCAR, Dlackburn.—Di1sTRIB. Abyssinia. 
C. latispicato, Beeck., affinis. 
** Nucis cellule extime quadrato-hexagone. 
3. C. etozosus, Allioni, Fl. Pedemont. Auctuarium, p. 49; 
umbella simplici, 1-pauci-radiata; spiculis admodum compressis ; 
nuce ellipsoidea acuta. Beck. in Linnea, xxxv. p. 458, non Beck, 
in Flora (1879), p. 546.—C. flavidus, Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 324, nec 
