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Sect. Schixolepis. Disci margo fimbriatus aut alte serratus. In folii 

 parte superiore margines praemorsim angustati. 

 Folia 5 mm. lata; planta mecliocris 



224. S. porphyrorrhiza C. Wright. 

 Folia 3 5 cm. lata; plantae robustae 



Panicula fusca aut viridis . 225. S. latifolia Svrartz. 

 Panicula purpurascens . . 226. S. arundinacea Kuntb. 

 Sect. Becquerelia. Spicula mascula foeminea multo minor, eicpie arcte 

 adpressa; ceteroquin ut sect, Eu-Scleria. 

 Nux 3 mm. lata, verrucosa . 227. S. cymosa Boeck. 

 Nux iy 2 mm. lata, tuberculata 228. S. tuberculata Boeck. 



199. Scleria rerticillata Willd. praeter vaginas inferiores glabra, 

 radicibus fibrosis; culmis 1 5 dm. longis, gracilibus; foliis 1 3 dm. 

 longis, 1 2 mm. latis; spica specie simplice, spicularum fasciculis di- 

 stantibus. ovoideis; bracteis 6 7 mm. longis, saepe caudatis; spiculis 

 2 4 mm. longis castaneo-rubris, masculis et 2-sexualibus; stylo 3-fido; 

 nuce 1 mm. in diam., trigono-globosa, obtusa, albida, undique a lami- 

 nis levibus horizontalibus verrucosa; disco annulari, angusto, fusce fla- 

 vido cum nucis stipite contracto fusco vel proventu vix ullo; nuce non 

 (aut obscure) hypopora. 



Scleria verticillata Willd. Sp. Pl. IV (1805) p. 317; Kunth Enum. 

 II p. 353 (syn. Mich. excl) ; Boeck. in Linnaea XXXVIII (1874) 

 p. 445 partim. 



Scleria hirtella var. glabrescens Boeck.f ms. in C. Wright n. 3417. 



Hypoporum verticillatinn Nees in Linnaea IX (1834) p. 303 (nec 

 Nees in Bonplandia III (1855) p. 87). 



Hab. in Cuba: C. Wright n. 3417 in hb. Krug etUrban (in hb. Kew., 

 DC. partim). 



Distrib. a Canada usque ad Florida et Texas. 



200. Scleria distans Poir. praeter spiculas glabra, debilis, radi- 

 cibus fibrosis; culmo 20 25 cm. longo, gracili; foliis linearibus; spica 

 specie simplice, 5 cm. longa, fasciculis 6 distantibus, parcius hispido- 

 ciliatis, proventu erectis; bracteis cum spiculis subaecuiilongis; spiculis 

 4 mm. longis, masculis et 2-sexualibus; stylo 3-fido; nuce 1 mm. in 

 diam., globoso-trigona, perlevi, alba, longius stipitata, in stipitis apice 

 alte porosa; disco annulari, ferrugineo micante. 



Scleria distans Poir. in Lam. Encyc. VII (1806) p. 4; Kunth 

 Enum. II p. 353; nec R. Br. 



Scleria hirtella Boeck. in Linnaea XXXVIII (1874) p. 439 par- 

 tim; non Sivartz. 



Scleria tenella Griseb.f Pl. Cub. (1866) p. 249 partim; non Kunth. 



Hypoporum distans Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. II pars I (1843) 

 p. 171 in nota? 



