114 C. B. Clarke: 



stachyis; spiculis subfasciculatis, 3 4 mm. longis, lanceolatis, 1-nuci- 

 geris; glumis ovatis, subacutis, inferioribus saepe mucronatis; setis 0; 

 stylo longo, rubro, apice breviter 2-ficlo, nuce (rostro incluso) cum gluma 

 fere aequilonga, ellipsoidea, fere levi, luteo-brunea; rostro angustissime 

 conico, cum nuce subaequilongo. 



Rynchospora gracilis VaJil Enum. II (1806) p. 234? 



Rhynchospora elongata Boeck.f Ogp. Novae I (1888) p. 261. 



Schoenus debilis et Sch. gracilis Sivartz! ms. 



Hab. in Jamaica: Jenman n. 763 b (alt. 1750 m.), Stokes, Swartz; 

 Portorico in Sierra de Luquillo in cacumine montis Yunque: Sintenis 

 n. 1356; Guadeloupe locis siccis scopulosis Mornes de Houelmont: 

 Duss n. 3115. 



153. Rynchospora polyphylla Vahl, rhizomate tenui; culmis 

 6 dm. longis, tenuioribus, per totam longitudinem multi-nodosis; foliis 

 cum culmo saepe aequilongis, 4 mm. latis, glabris aut sparsim pilosis; 

 panicula 3 4 dm. longa, ramis gracilibus, corymbis axillaribus compo- 

 sitis; spiculis parvis, pallidis; glumis ovato-lanceolatis; setis fere obso- 

 letis; stylo longo, subindiviso; nuce 1 mm. longa, obovoideo-globosa, 

 grosse reticulata, castanea; rostro cum x / 2 parte nucis subaequilongo, 

 submitrato, viridi. 



Ryndhospora polyphylla Vahl Enum. II (1806) p. 230. 



Rhynchospora polgphglla Roem. ct Sch. Sgst. II (1817) p. 83; 

 Kunth Enum. II p. 290; Griseb.! Kar. p. 123, et Elor. p. 575; Boeck.! 

 in Linnaea XXXVII (1873) p. 636; Duss! Elor. p. 551. 



Rhynchospora rigida Spreng. Sgst. I (1825) p. 196. 



Rhynchospora paniculatu Prcsl in Oken Isis XXI (1828) p. 269 

 et Sgmb. Bot. p. 42 t. 29 (setis cleletis). 



Schoenus polyphyllus Vuhl! Eclog. Amcr. II (1798) p. 5. 



Mitrospora polyphylla Xecs! in Linnaea IX (1834) p. 295. 



Hab. in Jamaica: Eggers n. 3426, Hansen n. 6, Hart n. 758, 

 March n.83, Purdie, Sullivan n. 3004; St. Kitts: Masson; Montserrat: 

 Ryan; Guadeloupe: Duchassaing, Duss n. 3116, l'Herminier n. 13; 

 Dominica: Eggers n.39, 520, Imray n. 22, 461, Mcholls n. 149, 172, 

 Ramage; Martinique: Aublet n. 27, Belanger n. 408, 796 b , Dussn. 689, 

 764, Hahn n. 517, 1418, Husnot n. 37, Siebern. 9; St. Vincent: Caley, 

 Eggers n. 6723, 7015 b , Smith n. 133; Grenada: Broadway n. 550, Eggers 

 n.6065, 6209 (alt. 600 metr.), Sherring n. 316; Tobago: Eggers n. 5695, 

 5869, 5950 b . 



Distrib. America centralis, Novo-Granata, Ycnezuela. 



154. Rynchospora aristata C. B. Ciarke, elata, fere glabra, pani- 

 cula 5 dm. longa 1 dm. lata, corymbis axillaribus laxis, compositis; 



