108 | C. B. Career: 
basin sitis, cum !/, parte culmi aequilongis, 1—2 mm. latis, planis, in 
margine saepe minute pilosis, vaginis pilosis; capite sub-8-stachyo; 
bracteis 3—6, viridibus, basi dilatatis, ima caput superante, in margine 
ciliato-pilosa; spieulis 7 mm. longis, oblongis, glabris, luteo-bruneis, 
7-glumis, 1-nueigeris; glumis subcorneis, quinta nucigera a sexta 
paullum distante; setis 6, nucem paulio superantibus, simpliciter scabris; 
stylo longissimo, apice breviter 2-fido; nuce cum 1/, parte glumae aequi- 
longa, oblongo-obovoidea, sessili, apice subito angustata, in facie postica 
leviter excavata, mieroscopice muriculata; rostro cum !/, parte nueis 
aequilongo, basi cum nuce fere aequilato, conico, pallido, marginibus 
incurvis. 
Rhynchospora hispidula Griseb.! Pl. Cub. (1866) p. 245; Sauv. 
Oub. n. 2672 p. 181, non Boeck. 
Ithynchospora Grisebachüi Boeck.! ms. 
Hab. in Cuba: C. Wright n. 3401. 
Obs. Rhynchospora cephalantha A. Rich. in Sagra Cub. XI p. 293 ob 
setas hypogynas piloso-setosas recedit. 
142. Rynchospora globosa Britton, fere glabra, stolonibus nullis; 
eulmis 3— 7 dm. longis, mediocribus, basi foliigeris, monocephalis; foliis 
2—5 dm. longis, usque ad 5 mm. latis; capite 1—2 cm. in diam., ju- 
niore auguste obovoideo, proventu globoso spieulis undique stellatis; 
bracteis caput vix superantibus, ovatis, obtusis, bruneis perrigidis mu- 
crone brevi; spieulis 6— 10 mm. longis, rigidis, 7-glumis, 1-nueigeris; 
glumis subdistichis obtusis, 4 imis parvis, quinta multum iongiore bi- 
sexuali, sexta oblonga mascula aut sterili paullum distante; setis 5— 6, 
nuce parum brevioribus ciliato-plumosis apice scabris; stylo longo, rubro, 
apice breviter 2-dentato; nuce cum ?/, parte glumae aequilonga, levi 
aut in humeris scabro-hispida, fusca; rostro parvulo, cum 1/, parte nueis 
vix aequilongo, bulboso-conico. 
Zynchospora globosa Britton! in Trans. New York Acad. XI 
(1892) p. 83. 
Ithynehospora globosa Roem. et Sch. Syst. II (1817) p. 89; Kunth! 
Enum. II p.288; Boeck.! in Linnaca XXX VII(1873) p. 538; Griseb.! 
Flor. p. 574 et Pl. Oub. p. 246; Sauv. Oub. n. 2674 p. 181. 
Ihynehospora alta Boeck.! Oyp. Novae. Heft IT (1890) p. 20. 
Chaetospora globosa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. I (1815) p. 230. 
Schoenus globosus Poir. Eneye. Suppl. V (1817) p. 617; Welld. 
ms. ex Kunth. 
Cephaloschoenus globosus Nees in Linnaea IX (1834) p. 296. 
Hab. in Cuba: C. Wright n. 3403; Trinidad in Piarco Savanna: 
Broadway n. 5296, Fendler n. 881, Hart n. 1888, 4656, Lockhart. 
Distrib. a Mexico usque ad Paraguay, frequens. 
