108 C. B. Clarke: 



basin sitis, cum y 8 parte culmi aequilongis, 1 2 mm. latis, planis, in 

 margine saepe minute pilosis, vaginis pilosis; capite sub-8-stachyo; 

 bracteis 3 6, viridibus, basi dilatatis, ima caput superante, in margine 

 ciliato-pilosa; spiculis 7 mm. longis, oblongis, glabris, luteo-bruneis, 

 7-glumis, 1-nucigeris; glumis subcorneis, quinta nucigera a sexta 

 paullum distante; setis 6, nucem paullo superantibus, simpliciter scabris; 

 stylo longissimo, apice breviter 2-fido; nuce cum x / 2 parte glumae aequi- 

 longa, oblongo-obovoidea, sessili, apice subito angustata, in facie postica 

 leviter excavata, microscopice muriculata; rostro cum y 8 parte nucis 

 aequilongo, basi cum nuce fere aequilato, conico, pallido, marginibus 

 incurvis. 



Bhynchospora hispidula Griseb.! Bl. Cub. (1866) p. 245; Sauv. 

 Cub. n. 2672 p. 181, non Bocck. 



Bhynchospora Grisebachii Boeck.f ms. 



Hab. in Cuba: C. Wright n. 3401. 



Obs. Rhynchospora cephalantha A. Rich. in Sagra Cub. XI p. 293 ob 



setas hypogynas piloso-setosas recedit. 



142. Rynchospora glouosa Britton, fere glabra, stolonibus nullis; 

 culmis 3 7 dm. longis, mediocribus, basi foliigeris, monocephalis; foliis 

 2 5 dm. longis, usque ad 5 mm. latis; capite 1 2 cm. in diam., ju- 

 niore anguste obovoideo, proventu globoso spiculis undique stellatis; 

 bractcis caput vix superantibus, ovatis, obtusis, bruneis perrigidis mu- 

 crone brevi; spiculis 6 10 mm. longis, rigidis, 7-glumis, 1-nucigeris; 

 giiimis subdistichis obtusis, 4 imis parvis, quinta multum iongiore bi- 

 sexuali, sexta oblonga mascula aut sterili paulluni distante; sctis 5 6, 

 nuce parum brevioribus ciliato-plumosis apice scabris; stylo longo, rubro, 

 apice brcviter 2-dentato; nuce cum 2 / 5 parte glumae aequilonga, levi 

 aut in humeris scabro-hispida, fusca; rostro parvulo, cum y s parte nucis 

 vix aequilongo, bulboso-conico. 



Rynchospora ylobosa Britton! in Trans. Kcw York Acad. XI 

 (1892) p. 83. 



Rhynchospora globosa Eoem. et Sch. Syst. II (1817) p.89; Kunth! 

 Enum. II p. 288; Boeck! inLinnaea XXXVII (1873) p. 538; Griseb.! 

 Flor. y. 574 et /V. Cub. p. 246; Sauv. Oub. rt. 2674 p. 181. 



Rhynchospora alta Boeck! <'yj>. Novae. Ilcft II (1890) p. L>o. 



( liaetospora ylobosa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. ct Sp. I (1815) p. 230. 



Scliocnus ylobosas Boir. Encyc. Suppl V (1817) p. 617; Wilui. 

 ms. ex Kunth. 



Cephaloschoenus globosus Nees in Linnaea IX (1831) p. 296. 



llal). in Cuba: C. Wright n. .".103; Trinidad in Piarco Savanna; 

 Broadway n. 5:296, Fendler n. 881, Hart n. 1888, 4656, Lockhart. 



Distrib. a Mexico usque ad Paraguay, frequens. 



