Cyperaceae. 9 1 



Eriocaulon spadiceum Lam. III. I (1791) p. 214. 

 Schoenus spadiceus Vahl Enum. II (1806) p. 210. 

 Nemum spadiceum Ham. Prod. Fl. Ind. Occid. (1825) p. 13; Kunth 

 Enum. II p. 220. 



Hab. in Hispaniola: kerbb. Delessert, Berol. lectore ignoto. 

 Distrib. Sierra Leone. 



118. Scirpus suDmersus C. Wright, glaber, debilis, atroviridis, 

 caulibus 3 5 dm. longis, submersis, nodosis, divisis; foliis fasciculatis, 

 5 8 cm. longis, capillaceis; pedunculis 3 10 cm. longis, axillaribus, 

 monostachyis; spicula 8 mm. longa, oblongo-lanceolata, 1-nucigera; glu- 

 mis 2 imis 8 mm. longis, membranaceis, fere convolutis, luteo-viridibus; 

 glumis caeteris brevioribus, paucis, masculis aut rudimentariis vel 0; setis 

 10 6, nucem superantibus, retrorsim hispidis, stramineis; stylo longo, 

 ramis 2 longis, linearibus; staminibus 3; nuce cum x / 2 parte glumae 

 aequilonga, obovoidea, levi, pallida. 



Scirpus submersus C Wrightf in Sauv. Fl. Cub. (1871) n. 2627 

 p. 175; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f Fl. Brit. Ind. VI p. 653. 



Scirpus confervoides Poir. in Lam. Encyc. VI (1804) p. 755 

 partim; Kunth Enum. II p. 173 partim i. e. Willd. n. 1123 planta in 

 descriptione neque in diagnosi Kunthii exscripta. 



Eleocharis submersa Miq. in Linnaea XIX (1847) p. 225. 



Rhynchospora ruppioides Bcnth.f in Hook. Ic. Pl. XIV (1881) 

 p. 31 t. 1344; Trimenf Sijst. Cat. Ceylon Pl, p. 103. 



Websteria limnophila S. H. Wright in Bull, Torrey Club XIV 

 (1887) p. 135. 



Schoenus confervoides Willd. ms. fulc Link. 



Hab. in Cuba prope Pinar del Kio: C. Wright n. 3775. 



Distrib. Madagascar, Ceylon, Java, Carolina, Eio Negro, Surinam, 

 Paraguay. 



Obs. Planta (o mea sententia) Scirpo fluitanti Linn. affinis, a genere 

 Ehynchospora longe distans ob stylobasin cum nucis apice continuam, folia, 

 ghunas imas longas, habitum. 111. Bejnttham propter spiculam 1-nucigeram 

 (characterem in Cyperaceis levis momenti) hanc plantani in Rhynchospora 

 verosimiliter locaverat. 



119. Scirpus nanus Spreng. glaber rhizomate tenuissimo, tubera 

 parva interdum gerente; culmis 3 10 cm. longis, aphyilis, setaceis, 

 monostachyis; spicula,3 5 mm. longa, specie terminali, 3 lO-flora, 

 ellipsoidea, pallida vel castaneo-rubra; glumis paucispiris, ovatis, ob- 

 tusis, ima cum caeteris fere consimili, sterili, caduca; setis 4 aut 6, 

 tenuibus, retrorsim scabris, fusce stramineis; staminibus 3; stylo longius- 

 culo 3-fido, basi pyramidali in nucem sensim transeunte; nuce cum 

 2 / 3 parte glumae aequilonga, obovoidea, levi, luteo-brunea. 



