1048 CXOIX. CYPERACEJE. [Scirpece, 
sed flores superiores maseuli videntur. BwcLéler in Linnea, xxxvii. 626, species omnes in FAyn- 
chospora includit. Kunth Dic a Rhynchosy iris setarum deflcientia et in genere 
inelusit Haloschaenum, Nees, tam habitu et infl m spicul forma et struetura valde 
diversum. .4steroschemnus, Nees (infra sub Pink) Sobesne accedit, bracteis involucranti- 
bus elongatis basi albis, sed spieulze omnino Zi spore, angustze tre sepius p 
et stylus indivisus. d 
In specie a Spruceo ad flumen Atabapo prope Maypures Venezuela lecta sub n. 3708, caulis 
brevissimus undique dense foliatus, foliis stellat ibus, floralibus invol ibus similibus 
nisi brevioribus basi albis cl ibus floralibus omnino Dichromend. 
8. Psilocarya, Torr. 4n Awn. Lyc. N. York, iii. 350. Spiculie ovoideo-conies, multi- 
florz, floribus omnibus hermaphroditis. Glum:e undique imbricatz, omnes florentes v. 
infima vacua. Set» hypogynse 0. Stamina sepius 2, interdum 3. Stylus basi v. ad 
sedium induratus, plus minus incrassatus persistensque, superne tenuis, ramis stigmatosis 
2 filiformibus. ' Nux late obovoidea, compressa, margine 2-costata, styli basi persistente 
sepe elongata rostrata.—Herbee ccespitosse, annum Gv. perennes ?), caulibus foliatis, foliis 
pieulze corymbul rhachi iiw swepe breviter producta, 
corymbi densi v. laxi subeompositi, terminales v. in axillis longe pedunculati. Glumz 
fuscescentes v. rarius pallide. 
Species nobis notze 4, quarum 3 Ameriem borealis incole, Sfeud. Syn. Pl. Gluin. ii. 150 ; quarta 
Cubensis (Scirpus corymbiformis, Wright in Sauy. Fl. Cub. 176). 
Genus Fimbristyli affne, ob inflorescentiam et nueis rostrum quam in He/eocharite longius ab A. 
Grayio RAjynchosporo adjunetum, a qua differt spieularum multiflorarum forma, glumis omnibus 
florentibus. Species Mexican: et austro- 2 Neesio et Liebmanno descriptze plerique ad 
" (Halosch 
2, J: ) pertinent. P. candida, Nees, potius ad Dichromenam referenda, 
9. Pimbristylis, Vahl, Ewwm. ii. 285.—Spieule pluri- sepius multi-fore, floribus 
omnibus hermaphroditis v. summo rarius imperfecto. Glum:e undique imbricatee v. rarius 
distichz, infimze 1-2 rarius 9 vacus. Sets hypogynse0. Stamina 3 v. pauciora. Stylus 
basi plus minus incrassatus, basi bulbiformi v. conica cum stylo decidua v. (in sect. 
Oncostyli) diu persi ; ramis stigmatosis 2 v. 3 filiformibus. Nux obovoidea glo- 
bosa v. compressa, 3-quetra v. 2-convexa, basi sepe valde contracta.—Herbse annus v. 
perennes, cespitosse, sepe tenues v. humiles, rarius elatze nec unquam staturam Seirporum 
majorum attingentes. Folia radicalia v. ad basin caulis conferta, graminea Y. fibformia, 
rarius ad vaginas reducta. Infl lis, scepius 
umbellata, umbella simplex v. sepius plus minus composita, rarius in capitulum densum 
sessile contracta v. ad spiculam unicam v. paucas reducta. Spiculw in radiis primariis v. 
ultimis solitarice v. rarius capitato-congesteo. Bractes exteriores Enn v. inflores- 
centia breviores, rarius foliacese infl dent 
Species editze ad 300, verisimiliter vix 200 retinendze, per orbem terrarum late disperse, i imprimis 
in regionibus tropicis numerose, in temperatis pauere, in frigidis desunt. Kunth, Enum. PI. ii. 220. 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum.ii.106. .Beckel. in SANE xxxvii. 2. Benth. us Austral. vii. 298. 
Genus pro maxima parte naturale et ch certis di adsunt tamen species 
pauee, presertim inter monostachyas Scirpo (Isolepidi) prope accedentes y. a Heleocharite vix. nisi 
Setarum absentia distinguendz, In sectiones sequentes dividitur :— 
1l. Heleocharoides. Spicula solitaria, terminalis, erecta v. nutans. Glum: undique iibi. 
Stylus 2-fidus v. 3-fidus, basi bulbiformi decidua. Species fere omnes Asiaticze v. Australienses, 
interdum Zeleocharitis v. Isolepidis speciebus tenuibus accedentes, sed styli basis semper decidua 
et folia (sepius filiformia) adsunt, nune ad basin caulis, nunc inter scapos aphyllos ccespitosa. 
Miscnospona, Bockel. in Flora, 1860, 113, est F. eylindrocarpa, Wall. 
2. Abidgaardia. Spiculw erecto, solitarim v. paueze, compresse v. anguste. Glom:e distiehre v. 
2-3-seriatim spirales, interdum irregulares. Stylus vulgo 3-fidus, basi bulbiformi deeidua.  Hofib. 
Descr. et Ic. Pl. t. 18, f. 8 (Cyperus). AnirpcAAamDIA, Vahl, Enum. ii. 296. Kunth, Enum. Pl. ii. 
247. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 72. Backel. in Linnea, xxxvii. 01... Beauv. FI, Ow. et Ben, t. 86. 
Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. t. 109. 
