288 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
Manacascam, fide Beck. in Reliq. Rutenb. i. p. 87.—Dts- 
TRIB. Africa australis. 
Sect. 6. ErEGANTES. Foliati, sepe virides. Involucri bractes 
plures, longs latzque foliacee. Umbella sepius laxe com- 
posita, spicis ultimis digitatis paucispiculosis. Rhachidiorum 
ale anguste, non solubiles. Glume laxius imbricate, ovate, 
obtuse, multinervose, basi auriculate, secus rhachidium plus 
minus decurrentes, apice obtuse breviter mucronate. An- 
there mucrone albido scabrido terminate. Nux cum 3-? 
glume equilonga, triquetra aut plane trigona. 
80. C. LONGIFOLIUS, Poir. Encycl. vii. p. 270.  Involucri 
bracteis sepe 4 unc. latis, multistriatis, etiamque 2-4 nervis 
validioribus percursis; spiculis 8-10-floris; glumis laxe imbri- 
catis, basi auriculatis decurrentibus; nuce cum $-3 glume equi- 
longa, oblonga. Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p.380 ; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 
p. 413. 
Mapacascar, Petit-Thouars, fide Poiret. MAURITIUS, Bouton, 
Ayres, &c. 
C. eleganti, Linn., affinis; differt precipue nuce angustiore. 
31. C. ELEGANS, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 68; involucri bracteis sepe 
j unc. latis, multistriatis, etiamque 2—4 nervis validioribus 
pereursis; spiculis 10—22-floris, haud raro solitariis, pedicellatis, 
sepius digitatis, nuce ‘cum dodrante glume equilonga, late 
ellipsoidea, utrinque angustata, acute triquetra. Back. in 
Linnea, xxxv. p. 932. C. nigro-viridis, Thwaites, Enum. Pl. 
Zeyl. p. 344. 
MADAGASCAR CENTRALIS, Baron n. 526, Parker. COMORO, 
Johanna, Hildebrandt n. 1739.—Disrriz. Africa Occidentalis 
(ab Afriea Orientali adhue non recepta). India Orientalis cum 
Zeylania. China. America Tropicalis. 
In exemplis, quam Mascarensibus tam Indicis, rhachidiorum 
ale latz hyaline conspicus videntur. Spicule pedicellatz quasi 
spice 1-spiculose habende. 
Sect. 7. ALTERNIFOLII. Involucri bracteæ plures, long. Umbella 
composita, spicis ultimis numerosis paucispiculosis. Rha- 
chidiorum ale peranguste, non solubiles. Glume imbricate, 
basi truncato-solubiles nec decurrentes. Antheræ mucronate, 
