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Ha TRIANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. — Ewzocnitis 
Similis praecedenti , at isthmi superne approximati, nec remo: ! 
tissimi, squamae non carinatae. Culmus flavescens. Spica bipoll. 
obtusa; squamae prope marginem lineà fuseà cum macula in 
, apice, Stylus trifidus. — "ahi. In Caribaeis. JMartfeit. 
3. E. elegans; culmis teretibus, articulatis, glabris; spi- 
culà cylindraceá; glumis oblongo-cuneatis, obtusis, uniner- 
viis; semine lenticulari, punctato-scabro,  Scimevs elegans 
Humb. et Bonpl. Nov. gen. et spec. L. p. 182. 
A Sc. interstincto stylo bifído, semine lenticulari satis diversus. 
Rad. fibrosa. | Culmi cespitosi erecti pedales et bipedales, 
€rássitie pennae anserinae, substriati, septis transversis inter. 
stincti, basi vaginati, interstitiis quinque linearibus,  Vaginae 
2 striatae glabrae truncatae aphyllae adpressae fuscescentes in- 
ferior pollicearis, superior 2poll.  Spicula obtusa semipolli- 
caris, basi bracteis 6 viridibus margine sphacelatis obtusis ad- 
pressis spiculà multo brevioribus. Glumae glabrae rubro .fus 
€ae, lineam longae, densissime imbricatae. — Stylus bifidus. 
7o-S0gmata ciliata. Semen obovatüm acuminatum, apice tuber- 
5^ ewlatum basi' setis sex retrorsum scabris. |. In re rivi Ju 
cutunemo prope FKillà de Cura; im locis planis prope littus Oceqm 
pacifici inter Guamang et Truxillo., 21. | Àn ErrocHanis sphatt 
-Jata. R. Brown? | d 
435. t. 15. f. 2. An huc Cyperus dulcis Jk&umph mb. V. 
(pe7. ot 3. £a. uti et. Hippuris indica Lour. [2 cochin, ? 
^- Culmi 2-3pedales, crassitie pennae cygneae, juniores pilis raris; 
"basi vaginis longis, Spica ii/zpollicaris, acutiuscula. Squt 
— mae margine fuscae, Stylus trifidus. Germen setis purpurei* 
Fahl. Poiretio, ex descriptione Hottboelli ; videtur v& 
D 
rietas levior Sc. genicalati. |. In India orient. 94. 
48. * E. genicnlata; spicà ovato-oblongá, squamis ovato 
— subrotundis, culmis approximate interstinctis. ScinPus get 
— eulatas Vah! Enum, ll. p. 250. JVilid. Spec, Y. p. 29* 
Pursh Fl, Amer. Sept. 1. p. 55. Sloane Hist. Ll t. 8» 
.8- . B. minor: spicà subglobos& Sloane Hist. t. 75. £9 
limi iifspedales, vix crassitie pennae anserinae. Spica sem 
2  poliicaris, penna anserina crassior, obtusa. Squamae numero 
. Sissimae, parvae, fuscae, margine albidae. Stylus pifidus 
Semen" ut in priori. Setae plures purpureae semine longiore 
Án B- distincta species? 77a à] ^ In Jamaia, Surinam 
Cayenna,  Firginia et Carolina. — Confer Sc. plantaginoidem. 
6. E. compacta Br.; culmo tereti inarticulato intus cel- 
luloso, spicá cylindraeeáà, squamis den:issime imbricatis €" 
nesto-obovatis ecarinatis, E. B roin Prodr. L p.324 
In E ueavour. rivers vicinis, et in Bay of inlets. 
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