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143. Rynchospora longibracteata ©. B. Clarke, fere glabra, cul- 
mis 6—8 dm. longis, mediocribus, teretibus, monocephalis, basi folii- 
geris; foliis cum culmo aequilongis, 3—4 mm. latis, marginibus in sicco 
involutis; capite 10—14 mm. in diam., polystachyo, denso, albo; brac- 
teis 3—4 dm. longis, cum foliis consimilibus; spiculis 7-nueigeris; glu- 
mis obtusis, corneis, 4 imis parvis, quinta multo longiore bisexuali; 
setis 0; nuce cum ?/, parte glumae aequilonga, obovoidea, levi, pallida; 
rostro cum 1/, parte nucis vix aequilongo, conico, nigrescente. 
Ehynchospora longibracteata Boeck.! in Linnaea XXX VII (1875) 
p. 534. 
Rhynchospora setigera Griseb.! Flor. (1864) p. 577 partim, non 
Kunth. 
Hab. in Hispaniola (an re vera ex hac insula, anne e Guiana?): 
Mayerhoff; Trinidad: Lockhart. 
Distrib. Guiana anglica. 
Obs. Nux levissima, symmetrica, biconvexa est; nux a cl. BOECKELERO 
descripta (e Schomburgk n. 233) deformata est. 
-— 144. Rynehospora eyperoides Britton, fere glabra, rhizomate 
horizontali, lignescente; culmo 1—8 dm. longo, mediocri, in parte supe- 
riore saepius nodoso, foliigero; foliis culmum saepe superantibus, 3—5 mm. 
latis; capitibus 1—25, laxe paniculatis, S—10 mm. in diam., globosis, 
8-—24-stachyis, ferrugineo-bruneis; bracteis quam capita longioribus, 
cum foliis consimilibus; spiculis 7-glumis, 1l-nucigeris; glumis 4 imis 
parvis vacuis, quinta nucigera paullo infra sextam sita; setis 6, nuce 
parum brevioribus, rigidis, antice scabris, ferrugineis; stylo longo rubro, 
apice breviter 2-fido; nuce vix 1 mm. longa, ®/, mm. lata, sessili, apice 
multum angustata, levi aut tenuissime transversim undulata, cinnamo- 
mea proventu brunescente; rostro cum nuce aequilongo, basi cum !/, 
parte nucis aequilato, e conico lineari. 
Rynchospora eyperoides Britton! in Trans. New York Acad. XI 
(1892) p. 84; C. B. Clarke in Dur. et Schinz Fl. Afr. V (1895) p. 653. 
Rhynchospora eyperoides Mart. in Denkschr. Acad. Wiss. Muench. 
VI (1816 — 17) p. 149; Griseb.! Flor. p. 574 et Pl. Oub. p. 246; Sauv. 
Cub. n. 2675 p. 181. 
Rhynchospora polycephala Kunth Enum. Il (1837) p. 291; Griseb. 
Kar. p. 123; Boeck.! in Linnaea XXXVI (1873) p. 552. 
Rhynchospora tenuirostris Kunth Enum. II (1837) p. 303. 
Rhynchospora sphaerocephala Boeck.! Oyp. Novae. Heft I (1888) 
p. 24. 
Schoenus eyperoides Swartz Prod. (1788) p. 19 et Fl. Ind. Oceid. I 
p. 110. 
