CYPERACE. 471 
South Mexico, Vera Cruz (Liebmann) ; GuaTEMALa, Mazatenango (Bernoulli, 570) ; 
Panama, Empire station (§. Hayes, 308).—VENEzUELA to Guiana and Braziu, and in 
the Wrst Inpies. Hb. Kew. 
20. Scleria scabriuscula, Schl. in Linnea, xx. p.544; Liebm. Mexicos Halver. 
p- 71; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. p. 457. 
Scleria schiedeana, Schl. in Bot. Zeit. 1845, p. 494; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. p. 491. 
Scleria homonyma, Steud. Cyper. p. 179. 
SourH Mexico, Hacienda de la Laguna (Schiede). 
21. Scleria setulosociliata, Boeck. in Flora, 1822, p. 30. 
GuatemaLa, Mazatenango (Bernoulli, 567). 
We suspect this is not distinct, as a species, from Scleria bracteata, to which 
Bernoulli’s 567 is referred in the Kew Herbarium. 
22. Scleria torreyana, Walp. Am. iii. p. 696; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 
p. 468. 
Scleria muehlenbergiana, Steud. Nomencl.; Schl. in Bot. Zeit. 1845, p. 474; Liebm. Mexicos 
Halver. p. 70. 
Scleria lara, Torr. in Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. York, iii. p. 376. 
MASSACHUSETTS southward.—Soutn Mexico, Consoquitla (Ziebmann), Vera Cruz to 
Orizaba (Miiller)—Guiana. Hb. Kew. 
23. Scleria verticillata, Muchlenb. Gram. p. 266 ; Kunth, Enum. Pl. ii. p. 353; 
‘Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. p. 446. 
Hypoporum verticillatum, Nees in Linnea, ix. p. 303; Torr. in Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. York, iii. 
p. 387. 
New York southward.—Panama, near the city of Panama (Seemann, 144),— 
CoLomBIA to Braziu and Guiana. Hb. Kew. 
17. UNCINIA. 
Uncinia, Pers. Syn. Pl. ii. p. 534; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 1072. 
A genus of about twenty-five species, inhabiting South Temperate and cold regions, 
though not represented in South Africa, the Andes northward to Mexico, the West 
Indies, nor in the Sandwich Islands. 
1. Uncinia mexicana, Steud. Cyper. p. 243; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 
p- 400. 
Uncinia jamaicensis, Liebm. Mexicos Halvgr. p. 84; Boeck. in Linnea, xli. p. 347, partim, non 
Pers. 
Uncinia phleoides, C. A. Meyer in Bull. Acad. Brux. ix. (reprint, p. 23), non Pers. 
Sout Mexico, Mirador, Vera Cruz, 3000 to 4000 feet (Galeotti, 5720; Liebmann) ; 
GuareMana, Chilasco (Godman & Salvin) ; Costa Rica (Hoffmann). 
This is very near U. jamaicensis, the only West-Indian species, which also occurs in 
