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Distrib. Ethiopia. Malaya. East U.S. Central America. 
North Brasil. 
Mariscus SiEBERIANUS, Wees: 
Var. y. supcomposira, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vi. 622. 
1. Kumaon, alt. 5000 feet, Strachey. 
[5. Madras Peninsula ? |, Wallich, 3437 E (hb. propr.). 
Distrib. Japan. Malaya. Polynesia. 
MARISCUS SIEBERIANUS, Nees: 
Var. ? à. kuasiana, C. D. Clarke in Hook. f. l. c. vi. 622. 
8. East Bengal, Griffith, Kew n. 6244 part. 
Distrib. Endemie in Easv Bengal. 
8. Mariscus tscunos, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. l. c. vi. 623. 
4. Nilgiri Mts. and Kurg, G. Thomson. 
Distrib. Mexico, Western Venezuela, Colombia. 
There is one sheet only of Malabar examples inscribed as 
above. The specimens are good, and there ean be no doubt they 
are M. ischnos (Schlecht. sub Cypero), a plant with a very well 
circumscribed area, frequent in the Northern Andes Region with 
Mexico. I have frequently doubted whether the Malabar locality 
is other than a ticket wrongly posted down. 
9. Martscus Hooxertanus, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 1. e. vi. 
623. 
7. Sikkim, in hot valleys, J. D. Hooker. 
Distrib. Endemic in Sikkim. 
it must be understood that the species of Mariscus [1-8 foregoing] 
are very closely allied; probably Mr. Bentham would have called them 
all “ Cyperus umbellatus.” ence, in order to keep the species 1-8 at all 
distinct, it is necessary to narrow down their diagnoses, When this has 
been done, I find that Hooker's Sikkim-hot-valley example will not go 
into any one of the 8. It is then necessary to make it a new species, 
M. Hookerianus, unless I attempt some new grouping for the material 
of the 8. 
10. Marıscus sqUARROSUS, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Le vi. 
623. 
3. Mangalore, Metz, 823. 
4. Ceylon, Koenig. 
5. Madras Peninsula, Wight, 1810 A, B, Wallich, 3313 A, B, 
part. Maisor and Carnatic, G. Thomson. 
