66 C. B. CLARKE: 
Eleogenus atropurpureus Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) p. 115. 
Heleocharis atropurpurea Koch Syn. Fl. Germ. ed. 1I (1844) p. 853; 
Boeck.! in Linnaea XXXVI (1869—70) p. 458 (var. y. exehusa). 
Heleocharis Sintenisii Boeck.! Cyp. Novae. Heft I (1888) p. 16. 
Heleocharis bahamensis Boeck.! Cyp. Novae. Heft IT (1890) p. 11. 
Hab. in Baham. ins. Hog Island: Eggers n. 4101, 4101*, Andros: 
Northrop n. 745; Cuba: C. Wright n. 3371; Portorico in fossis ad Palo 
seco prope Bayamon: Sintenis n. 1220. 
Distrib. per orbem veterem calidiorem frequens; in orbe novo rarior. 
__> 77, Eleocharis eapitata R. Br. annua, culmis 5— 30 cm. longis, 
tenuioribus, striatis; vagina summa apice integra, nee scariosa deter- 
gibili; spiela 3—12 mm. longa, ellipsoidea, obtusa, densa, pallida; 
glumis elliptieis, obtusis, fusce stramineis in carina viridescentibus, ima 
(vel 2—3 imis) vacua, majore, bracteiformi; setis 7, vel paucioribus, 
cum nuce subaequilongis, retrorsim scabris, bruneis aut ferrugineis; 
stylo 2-fido; nuce cum ?/, parte glumae aequilonga, obovoidea, plano- 
convexa, atra, apice subito angustata; stylobasi parva, depresso-conica, 
pallida. 
Eleocharis capitata R. Br.! Prod. (1810) p. 225; Kunth Enum. 
II 9.150, syn. quibusdam exel.; Sagra Fl. Cub. X1 p. 289; C. B. Clarke 
in Hook. f. Fi. Brit. Ind. VI p. 627. 
Eleocharis setacea R. Br.! Prod. (1810) p. 225, neque homonyma 
p. 224; Kunth Enum. II p. 156. 
Seirpus capitatus Linn.! hb. propr. partim; Swartz Obs. Bot. 
p- 31; @. F. W. Meyer Esseq. p. 43; Griseb.! Flor. p. 570 partim, et 
Pl. Oub. p. 229; Sauv. Cub. n. 2613 p. 174. 
Seirpus caribaeus Rottb. Deser. et Ie. p. 46 (1773) 1.15 fig. 3. 
Eleogenus capitatus Nees! in Wight Contrib. (1834) p. 112; Liebm.! 
Mexie. Halvgr. p. 57. 
Heleocharis capitata Boeck.! in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. (1868 — 69) 
p. 159. 
Sloane Jamaica I p.122 1.75 fig.2. 
Hab. in ins. Bermuda: fide Hemsley; in ins. Bahama: Dale, 
Eggers n. 3862, 4093, 4148, Northrop n.247, 327; Cuba: Rugel n. 904, 
Sagra n. 503, 911, C. Wright n. (12: Thrisien. Hart n. 805, Swartz, 
- Wilson n. 495; Bnanioie Eggers n. 2470, Picarda n. 1086; Porto- 
rico: Blauner ». 66, Krug n. 1240, Sintenis n. 1219, 1221, 1968, 2344, 
2530, 3041, 3145, 5617, Stahl n. 299; St. Thomas: Gore n. 93; An- 
tigua: Wallschiäerel.n, 104; Guadeloupe: Duss n. 3126, 3910, re 
minier; Martinique: Duss n. 752, Husnot n. 21, Plöe n. 18, 41: 
Caribaeis: Coll. ign. n. 128; Barbaden: Bari n. 7107; 
