120 C. B. CLARKE: 
glumae aequilonga, globosa, sessili, transversim undulata, brunea inter- 
dum viridi-tineta; rostro cum 1/, parte nucis aequilongo, conico, ni- 
grescente. 
Ethynehospora pusilla Griseb.! Kar. (1857) p. 123, et Flor. p. 576, 
et Pl. Cub. p. 247; Boeck.! in Linnaea XXXVII (1875) p. 527; Sauv. 
Oub. n. 2694 p. 185; non Curtis. 
Schoenus pusillus Swartz Prod. (1788) p. 20 et Fl. Ind. Oceid. 
p. 7 1.6 (char. emend.); Vahl Enum. II p. 109. 
Hypolytrum Berterii Spreng.! Neu. Entdeck. I (1820) p. 241. 
Hypoelytrum Berterianum Roem. et Sch. Syst. IT Mant. (1824) 
pp. 133, 528. 
Dichromena pusilla Kunth Enum. IT (1837) p. 275. 
Seleria mierodiseus Steud.! Cyp. (1855) p. 175. 
Kyllinga brevifolia Schultes in Roem. et Sch. Syst. IT Mant. 
(1824) p. 137, non Rottb. 
Hab. in Cuba: Otto n. 321, Rugel n. 762, C. Wright n. 3414; 
Jamaica: Swartz, Wilson n. 303, Wullschlaegel n. 1139; Hispaniola: 
Eggers n. 2601, 2690, 2812, Poiteau; Portorico orient.: Wydler n. 401; 
Guadeloupe: Bertero, Duchassaing. 
165. Rynchospora tenerrima ©. B. Clarke, glabra, radicibus fibro- 
sis; culmo 1—3 dm. longo, graeili; foliis 1d—15 em. longis, 1—2 mm. 
latis; corymbis 2—4, parvulis, distantibus, 3—10-stachyis; bracteis 
corymbos longe superantibus subsetaceis; spiculis 4 mm. longis, lanceo- 
latis, ce. 10-glumis, 2—1-nueigeris, pallidis; glumis ovato-lanceolatis, 
nucigeris saepe mucronatis; setis 0; stylo lineari, atro-rubro, ramis 2 
linearibus; nuce 1 mm. longa, sessili, obovoidea, turgide biconvexa, trans- 
versim undulato-rugosa, brunea, apice 3-dentata (i. e. humerorum 2 
angulis in cornua productis); rostro minuto conico nucis cornubus parum 
longiore. 
Kehynchospora. tenerrima Spreng. Syst. Ourae Post. (1827) p. 26; 
Nees! in Flora XI (1828) p. 338. 
Rhynchospora Spermodon Griseb.! Flor. (1864) p. 576, et Pi. 
Cub. p. 246; Saw.! Cub. n. 2691 p. 184. 
| Iihynchospora setacea Boeck.! in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. (1869— 70) 
P.159 et in Linnaca XXXVII (1873) p. 559 et in Flora LXIV 
(1881) p. 78; Duss! Flor. p. 551. 
Fhynchospora emaciata Duss! Flor. p- 551. 
Schoenus setaceus Berg. in Act. He. VII (17 72) 2.1830:4:9; 
Rottb. Deser. et Ic. p. 62 t. 21 fig. 2; Swartz Prod. p. 20 et Fl. Ind. 
Oeeid, I p. 107. 
