XI .c 5 Merrill: Reliquiae Robinsonianae 257 



FIMBRISTYLIS FUSCA (Nees) Benth. ex C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. 6 (1893) 649. 



Abildgaardia fusca Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) 95. 

 Amboina, Soja road, Rel Robins, 1887, August 1, 1913, on grassy hill- 

 sides, altitude about 200 meters. 

 India to China and Malaya. 



FIMBRISTYLIS MILIACEA (Burm.) Vahl Enum. 2 (1806) 287. 

 Scirpus miliaceus Burm. Fl. Ind. (1768) 22, t. 9, f. 2. 

 Amboina, Hoenoet, Rel. Robins. 18U, October 18, 1913, in grasslands, 

 altitude about 150 meters. 



Hasskarl, Neue Schlvissel (1866) 151, has suggested that Gramen bufo- 

 nium Rumph., Herb. Amb. 6:4, is Fimbristylis miliacea Vahl. 

 Tropics of the World. 



SCIRPUS Linnaeus 



SCIRPUS ERECTUS Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 6 (1804) 761. 

 Celebes, Macassar, Rel. Robins. 2453, July 11, 1913. 

 Widely distributed in both hemispheres. 



LIPOCARPHA R. Brown 



LIPOCARPHA M [CROC EPH ALA (R. Br.) Kunth Enum. 2 (1837) 268. 

 Hypaelyptum microcephalum R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 220. 



Amboina, Paso and Koesoekoesoe sereh, Rel. Robins. 1890, August and 

 September, 1913, roadsides. 



Malay Peninsula to Australia. 



RYNCHOSPORA Vahl 



RYNCHOSPORA RUBRA (Lour.) Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 17 (1903) 

 180. 

 Schoenus ruber Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 41. 

 Rynckospora wallichiana Kunth Enum. 2 (1837) 289. 

 Amboina, Soja road, Rel. Robins. 1899, August 1, 1913, on grassy hill- 

 sides, altitude about 100 meters. 



Tropical Africa and Asia to Japan, southward through Malaya to 

 Australia. 



BAUMEA Gaudichaud 



BAUMEA GLOMERATA Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. (1826) 416, t. 29. 

 Cladium globiceps C. B. Clarke in Kew Bull. Add. Ser. 8 (1908) 46. 



Amboina, Amahoesoe, Rel. Robins, 1895, on steep banks, altitude about 

 80 meters. 



I am not sure that the identification of this specimen with Baumea glo- 

 merata Gaudich. is correct, as I have not access to the original description 

 and figure, while the description given by other authors is very short and 

 imperfect. The type, however, was from the Moluccas. The specimen 

 very closely resembles a series of allied forms that have been described as 

 Baumea deplanchei Boeckl., of New Caledonia; Cladium colpoides Laut., of 

 New Guinea; Cladium sinuatum Ridl., of New Guinea; Cladium juncoides 

 Elm., of the Philippines; and Cladium gaudichaudii W. F. Wight of the 

 Caroline Islands. 



