102 CL.\RKB. 
Luzon, (793 Loher), 
Malabar Peninsula from Poona to Ceylon; also in Cocliin-China. 
There is an American plant (No. 2385 Gardner) collected in Piauhy, Brazil, 
which I can not distinguish specifically from R. Wight iana. 
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Spikelets copionsly umhelled. 
3. Rynchospora aurea Vahl, Enum. 2 (1806) 220. 
Style-branches 2, very shorty almost wanting. 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 670. Rhynchospora aurea R. Br. Prodr. 230; Presl, 
.Rel. Haenk. 1: 179; Miq. Fl. Nederl. Ind. 3: 336 et Sup pi. 262; Vidal, Rev. PI. 
Vase. Filip. 285; Plianer. Cuming, Philip. 156. Rh. articulata Spreng. Syst. 1: 
197; Moritzi, Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 98; Steud. in ZoU. Verz. Ind. Archip. heft 2, 61; 
Miq. Fl. Xederl. lud. 3: 337. Scirpiis corynihosus Linn. Amoen. Acad. 4: 303. 
Philippines, (15 hh. Presl) . Cebu, (1763 Cuming). Mindoko, (897 Merrill). 
In the warm parts of the World, common in the Old; very common in the New 
World. 
4. Rhynchospora glauca Vahl, Enum. 2 (1806) 233. 
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Style-branches 2, long. 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 071. Rhynchospora laaca R. Br. Prodr. 230; Miq. Fl. 
Nederl. Ind. 3: 337. Rh. ferruginea Roem. et Sch. Syst. 2: 85; Presl, Rel. Haenk. 
1: 199. 
In all warm countries; frequent in India. 
Var. ^ Chinensis Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 672. 
Spikelets often ripening two nuts; hypog}aioiis bristles often reaching 
the top of the beak of the nut. 
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 259. Rhynchospora Chinensis Boeck. 
in Linnrea 37 (1873) 586. 
Luzox, Benguet, (5757 Elmer) ; Lepanto, (4623 Merrill). 
From Madagascar to Japan and the Sandwich Islands, frequent. 
• 13. SCHOENUS Linn. 
L Schoenus apogon Roem. et Sch. Syst. 2 (1817) 77. S. imherhis Poir. 
Encycl. Suppl. 2: 251, neque (liomonyma) p. 250, nee. R. Br. ^. laxiflorus Steud. 
! Cyp. 166. 8. Brovmii Hook. f. ! Handb. New Zeal. Fl. 298. Chaetospora 
imherhis R. Br. ! Prodr. 233. C. tenussima Steud. ! Cyp. 162. C. Japonica 
Franch. et Savat. PI. Japon. 2: 122, 548, e descript. C. urnhcllulifera Boeck. ! 
in Flora, 65 (1882) 28. Isolepis margaritifera Nees in Ann. Nat. I, 6 (1849) 46. 
Scirpus margaritifer Boeck. ] in Linnaea 36 (1869-70) 697. 
Luzon, (1347 I/o7icr). 
From Japan to New Zealand; common in Australia. 
14. CLADIUM R. Br. 
1. Cladium distichum sp. nova. 
Gliunis 12 ad W, oblongis, specie distichis; panicnlae laxae, raniis 
anf ractuoso-flexuosis ; mice parva, sossili, obovoidea^ papyracea, viridi- 
lutea, grosse laxe rugosa^ rostro siibnnllo^ i. c.^ brevi depresso-ovoideo^ 
glabro. 
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