222 CHINA. [CyperacetB. 



carinatse, imbricata?, ovatse, obtusa?, mucronulo parvo a reliquo margine saepe sinulo discreto, carina viridi 

 trinervi, lateribus litura oblonga purpurascenti-brunnea notatis, margine membranaceo pallido. Stamina 3. 

 Antherm lineares, fulva?, apice albo-barbatse. Stylus ad medium trifidus. Caryopsis parva, trigono-sub- 

 rotunda, subtiliter punctulata, Candida, mutica. 



7. C. hexastachyus. Rotlb.—N. ab E. I. c. p. 81. (cum char, et syn.) 

 Hab. Macao; Millett; Vachell, n. 71. et "f." 



8. C. marginellus. N. ab E. 1. c. p. 83. (cum char.) 



Hab. Ad Macao et in vicinis insulis; G. H. Vachell, n. 68. 



Radix fibrosa, fibris flexuosis spongiosis. Stolones flexuosi, squamati, horizontales. Folia radicalia vaginis 

 membranaceis laxis instructa. Culmi ad basin vagina membranacea acumine lanceolato aphylla rufa,tum folium 

 altcrum, vagina longa triquetra, e rhizomate oriente, lamina 2-2£ lin. lata, complicato-carinata glabra mar- 

 gine scabra, acuminata, culmum subcequante. Culmus acute trigonus penna gallinacea crassior. Involucri 

 folia tria, tres fere lineas longa, plana, margine scabra, umbella longiora ; quartum angustius umbellam 

 ajquans. Radii umbella? 3-4, l-2£ pollices longi, compressi, scabri. Spica, ob spicas laterales sessiles 

 subcapitatas, pollicem lata, pollicc brevior, e partialibus 3-4 patentissimis terminalique congestis exstructa ; 

 invollucella sub spicis et spiculis brevia, setacea. Spicules confertse, patentes, quatuor lineas longse, lineam 

 vix lata?, compressiusculse. Squama; imbricata?, primum acutse, demum obtusse, septemnerves, e purpureo 

 cxpallidae, dorso viriduloe, margine albo-tenuissimo. Stamina tria. 



9. C. canescens. Vahl. — N. ab E. 1. c. p. 84. (cum char, et syn.) 

 Hab. Macao; Millett. In littore Tynon-Bay; G. H. Vachell, n. 67. 



Culmus pedalis, sesquipedalis, penna anserina tenuior, strictus, trigonus, lrevis, sub umbella rufescens. 

 Folia radicalia, culmum sequantia, linearia, rigidula, 2-2J lineas lata, glauca, glabra, margine serrulato- 

 scabra. Vagina membranacea?, fusco-purpureee. Involucri foliola 6r7, foliolorum forma, pleraque et eorum 

 longitudine, interiora minora ; inferius quandoque ab umbella remotius. Ochrea laxae, oblique truncata? 

 eoque acuminata?, nee dentata? aut foliaceo-appendiculata?. Radii 6-8, in aliis plerique abbreviati, et ideo 

 umbella subcontracta, in aliis 1-2 pollices longi, divaricati, trigoni, centralibus solis abbreviatis. Involucella 

 nulla. In singulo Tadio inflorescentia composito-vel decomposito-spicata, late pyramidalis, spicis partialibus 

 paucis divaricatis earumque infimis longioribus fere pollicaribus, basi sa?pe compositis, tunc una et altera 

 superiora versus multo brevior, ipso apice simpliciter spicato, unde figura inflorescentise brevem pyramidem 

 refert. Spicules approximata? nee imbricatse, recto angulo patentes, subdistichae, sessiles, 3 lin. longa?, J lin. 

 latse, ex oblongo lanceolata?, acutiuscula?, modice compressse, utrinque convexa;, 8-9-flora?, squamis arete im- 

 bricatis ovatis obtuse mucronatis crassiuscule chartaceis griseo-fuscis margine angusto pallidiore, nervis 

 novem prominulis obtusis divisis punctulatisque. Rhachilla utrinque ad latus alata. Stamina tria. Stylus 

 ad medium bifidus, altero ramo bindo. Caryopsis obovato-triquetra, lateribus depressis, mucronata, basi 

 contracta, punctulis minimis prominulis subseriatis exasperata, nigro-ftisca, nitidula, squama sua duplo 

 brevior. 



[From the above description, assisted by specimens from Dr. Wight, and determined by Professor Nees 

 Von Esenbeck, we are now inclined to refer here our C. caricifolius, from the Sandwich Islands, supr. p. 99.] 



10. [C. verticillatus ; umbella composita decompositave pluriradiata, radiis compresso- 

 triquetris strictis apice umbellatis e spicis 3-8 sessilibus paullo inaequalibus patulis cylin- 

 draceis a basi densissime imbricatis et quandoque radiolo centrali oh'gostachyo, spiculis 

 lanceolatis valde compressis dense spiraliter in rachi insertis ebracteolatis 6-14-floris, squamis 

 ovatis obtusis mucronatis flavidis dorso trinervibus nervo carinali viridi, stylo trifido, cary- 

 opsi ovali triquetra laevi pallida, involucellis subdiphyllis umbellula paullo brevioribus, in- 



