REPORT ON THE BOTANY OF JUAN FERNANDEZ AND MASAFUERA. 59 



This plant inhabits Chili, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, St. 

 Paul Island, and St Helena, being the commonest Glumifera in the last-named island. 

 We have only seen it from Juan Fernandez in Mr Moseley's collection, without any 

 information concerning the locality. 



Cladium scirpoideum, Benth. et Hook. f. (Plate LX.) 



Cladium scirpoideum, Benth. et Hook, f., Gen. PL, iii. p. 1066. 



Terobera scirpoidea, Steud., Cyperaceae. p. 164. 



Agijlla ensifolia, Philippi in Anales Univ. Chili, 1865, i. p. 643, et in Cat. PL Vase. ChiL, p. 302. 



Vincentia scirpoidea, Boeckeler in Linnsea, xxxviii. p. 250, partim. 



Juan Fernandez. — By the side of the stream in swampy ground, covering a con- 

 siderable area — Moseley ; Heed. 



Of this very remarkable plant, we have seen no specimens in the older collections, 

 therefore it is probably local in its occurrence. Steudel cites Bertero's No. 1509 for 

 this plant, a number apparently not represented in Kew Herbarium. Terobera is an 

 anagram of Bertero. Bceckeler (1. c.) has confused a Brazilian species with this. The two 

 plants bear a strong general resemblance to each other, both in foliage and inflorescence, 

 but, as the analyses of the flowers in our Plate show, they are quite distinct. The Brazilian 

 species may be named Cladium ficticium, Hemsley. There are no ripe nuts of either species, 

 but the spikelets afford characters by which they are easily recognised. In Cladium 

 scirpoideum the spikelets are looser, and the longer glumes are produced at the tip into 

 long awn-like points, while in Cladium, ficticium, they are broader, and the flowering ones 

 scarcely acute. The habitat of the latter is uncertain ; none of the Kew set of Glaziou's 

 plants are localised, and some labelled Province of Rio are clearly not from that province. 

 Moseley collected only leaves of Cladium scirpoideum, the longest of which are about 

 four feet. 



Uncinia douglasii, Boott. 



Uncinia douglasii, Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Antarct., p. 369 ; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xx. 

 p. 401 ; Gay, Fl. ChiL, vi. p. 228. 



Jtjan Fernandez. Douglas; Reed; Moseley. Masaftjera. Leyboldt. 



A distinct species, apparently restricted to these islands. 



Oarex paleata, Boott. 



Carex paleata, Boott in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xx. p. 127, et Illustr. Gen. Carex, t. 116 ; Gay, Fl. 

 ChiL vi. p. 219. 



Juan Fernandez.— Endemic. Scolder; Cuming, 1341 ; Reed ; Moseley. Masafuera. 

 Germain. 



