144 C. B. CLARKE: 
Hab. in Cuba: Sagra, C. Wright n. 3416°, 3800. 
Distrib. a New Jersey usque ad Florida, Mexico; in Guiana, Brasilia 
usque ad Pernambuco. 
208. Seleria hemitaphra Steud. fere glabra, rhizomate 0; culmis 
3—8 dm. longis, pro longitudine gracilioribus; paniculis axillaribus 
pyramidalibus, rigidis, saepe 2—4 cm. latis, bracteis secundariis con- 
spieue exstantibus; spieulis unisexualibus; stylo 3-fido; nuce 11/, — 2 mm. 
longa, ellipsoidea, fenestrata; reticulationibus levibus, sparse tenuissime 
pilosis; disci lobis parvis, ovatis, saepe triangularibus. 
Scleria hemitaphra Steud.! Oyp. (1855) p. 169. 
Scleria retieularis Spreng. Syst. III (1826) p. 831 partim; Boeck.! 
in Linnaea XXAVII (1874) p. 469. 
Seleria bracteata var. angusta Griseb.! Pl. Oub. (1866) p. 249. 
Scleria debilis O0. Wright! in Sauv. Oub. (1871) n. 2704 p. 186. 
Seleria Torreyana var. Boeck.! in Linnaea XXXVIII (1874) 
p. 469. 
Seleria selacea Poir. in Lam. Enceyel. VII (1806) p. 4 e deseript. 
Seleria mierantha Poir. Eneye. Suppl. V (1817) p. 108; Kunth 
Enum. II p. 359; e descript. 
Hab. in Cuba: ©. Wright n. 3416° in herb. Kew. (Savanna Retiro), 
n. 3416 herb. Mus. Brit.; Portorico prope Hato grande in graminosis 
ad montem Gregorio: Sintenis n. 2718. 
Distrib. in America septentr., austro-orient., Mexico, Guatemala. 
209. Seleria laeustris C. Wright, robustior, parum pilosa, radi- 
cibus fibrosis in aqua natantibus; culmo 8 dm. longo, triquetro, in an- 
gulis perscabro; foliis usque ad 6 dm. longis, 11 mm. latis; paniculis 
.1—2, inferiore longe distante, terminali 1 dm. longa 6 cm. lata, ramis 
rigidis, spieularum fasciculis sessilibus paullo distantibus; spiculis om- 
nibus 1-sexualibus, fere glabris, fuseo-bruneis, foemineis 4 mm. longis; 
gluma nucigera acuta, vix mucronata; stylo 3-fido; nuce 3 mm. longa, 
ovoidea, levi, marmorea, alba; disco depresse obpyramidali, pallido, 
margine angustissimo purpureo subintegro. 
Seleria lacustris C. Wright! in Saun. Oub. (1871) n. 2700 p. 185. 
Seleria Junghuhniana Boeck. in Linnaea XXX VIII (1874) p. 499. 
Hab. in Cuba: C. Wright. 
Distrib. Guiana gallica; Java. 
210. Seleria eyperina Kunth, glabra, robusta, perennis, culmo 
6 dm. longo, triquetro, levi; foliis 3 dm. longis, 9—12 mm. latis, 3-ner- 
vis, vaginis (anguste aut medioeriter) alatis, ligula 9 mm. longa ovata 
venosa in margine integro scariosa; panieula terminali 6 cm. longa 35 mm. 
lata, densiuseula; bracteis 3 foliiformibus 5—8 em. longis 9 mm. latis; 
