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CYPERACEAE 



KYLLINGA Rottboell 



KYLLINGA ODORATA Vahl, var. CYLINDRICA (Nees) Kiikenth. ex Mer. 

 in Journ. Str. Branch Roy. As. Soc. 76 (1917) 80. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10655, 

 Levine IS 95, August 16 and 25, 1917, scattered on open grassy slopes, 

 altitude 1,100 meters. 



This form, which is widely distributed in the tropics of the Old World, 

 has previously been reported from China only from Yunnan Province. 



ELEOCHARIS R. Brown 

 ELEOCHARIS TETRAQUETRA Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) 113. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), at Wa Shau 

 T'oi, Merrill 10809, Levine U10, August 20, 1917, among grasses in swampy 

 places, altitude about 150 meters. 



This species, which extends from India to Japan southward to tropical 

 Australia, has been reported from several parts of China, but not previously 

 from Kwangtung Province. 



FIMBRISTYLIS Vahl 



FIMBRISTYLiS HOOKERIANA Boeck. in Linnaea 37 (1871) 22; Clarke 

 in Hook. f. PI. Brit. Ind. 6 (1893) 641. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10750, 



August 12, 1917, on thin soil over boulders and ledges on open slopes^ 



altitude about 1,100 meters. The same species is represented by Levine 

 1202, from Chat Sing Kong, Honam Island, near Canton. 



India and Cochinchina (Pierre!) ; not previously reported from China. 



FIMBRISTYLIS ANNUA (All.) R. & S. Syst. 2 (1817) 95, var. TOMEN- 

 TOSA (Vahl) Kiikenthal in herb. 



Honam Island, on the grounds of the Canton Christian College, Levine 

 1185, July 25, 1917. 



This pubescent form of Fimbristylis annua R. & S. (F. diphylla Vahl) 

 agrees with Philippine material determined by Kiikenthal as the above 

 variety. 



CAR EX Linnaeus 

 ^ CAREX BAMBUSETORUM sp. nov. § Mitratae, Eumitratae. 



Species C. rhynchachaenio affinis, differt scapis longioribus, 

 utriculis minoribus, glabris, acheniis multo minoribus, 2 mm 

 longis. 



Rather densely tufted, the base clothed with the filiform rem- 

 nants of old sheaths. Leaves plane, scabrid, numerous, 20 to 

 30 cm long, 3 to 4.5 mm wide, pale, shining, tapering upward to 

 the long and slenderly acuminate apex. Scapes slender, about 

 13 cm long, each bearing about three pistillate spikelets and a 

 terminal staminate one, the bracts slender, 12 to 22 mm long 

 sheathing in the lower 4 to 9 mm. Pistillate spikelets 1 to 1.4 

 cm long, lax, 3 to 4 mm in diameter, their pedicels slender, at 



