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MARISCUS CYPERINUS, Vahl: 
Var. MAXIMA, var. nova: very large; bracts of umbel 10 or 
12, long ; rays of umbel 16, up to 4 in. long; spikes 1 by 
2in.; spikelets very numerous, densely packed, in fruit 
sloping somewhat upwards. 
(5.] East India, Rorburgh (hb. Delessert). 
Distrib. Sumatra. 
5. Marıscus pıcrus, Nees; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 621. 
3. Nilgiri Mts., G. Thomson. Mysore, Heyne, G. Thomson. 
5. Madras Peninsula, Wight, 1846 [Nees’ “type ”], Wallich, 
3435 a part. (hb. propr.), 3437 (hb. Mus. Brit.) Carnatic, 
G. Thomson. 
Distrib. Java. Polynesia. 
6. Maniscus TENUIFOLIUS, Nees ; Hook.f. l.c. vi. 622 [Schrader 
MS. fide Nees]. 
4. Ceylon, Koenig, Gardner, 953 part., Thwaites, 817. 
5. Madras Peninsula, Meyne, Wight, 1846 part. (hb. Kew), 
Wallich, 3432 a (hb. propr.), 8435¢ (hb. Mus. Brit.). 
Tinnevelly Hills, Beddome. 
6. Monghir, Wallich, 3432 B (hb. propr., Kew). 
11. Malacca, Griffith, Kew n. 6241. 
Distrib. Endemic in India. 
In ticketing herbarium specimens, and in casual references, it is usual 
to call this plant (by 3 words) Mariscus tenuifolius, Schrader. If this 
is stated thus it sends one to the wrong book ; if it is stated Schrader MS. 
it is rather worse than (2 words) Mariscus tenuifolius; for it gives no 
help to finding the published. description, and besides that may mislead 
one into assuming the plant unpublished. 
The ground for calling it Mariscus tenuifolius, Schrader, is that it is 
only justice to Schrader, In the present (and most similar cases) I see 
no sufficient proof that Schrader distinguished the plant; he may have 
noticed that the example was narrow-leaved. However this may have 
been, I agree with Darwin in his argument that all consideration of 
persons in this matter must be postponed to the convenience of science ; 
aad I think it is most convenient to postpone all MS. names to published 
names, and to make the primary reference to the latter. 
7. MARISCUS Sırrerranus, Nees; Hook. f.l. c. vi. 622. 
1. Gurhwal, 7. Thomson, 272; alt. 5000 feet, Duthie, 367. 
Almora, alt. 5000 feet, Strachey. Nipal, Wallich, 3437 a 
(hb. propr.). 
