140 C. B. Clarke: 



Hab. in Cuba: C. Wright 3418 B, D in hb. Kew; Hispaniola: 



Jacquemont; Portorico: hb. Desfontaines (verisim. Riedle v. Ledru 



leg.); St. Thomas: Riedle; Guadeloupe in savannis Camp Jacob 540 m. 



alt.: Duss n. 3109, 3736, Husnot n. 45. 



Obs. Scleria distans Nees (e Neesii descriptione) discrepat ob nucem 

 tuberculatam , et ad S. interruptam Rich. forsan refert. 



201. Sclcria Lielmianni Steud. praeter vaginas inferiores glabra, 

 gracilis, radicibus fibrosis; panicula laxa, ramis gracilibus, inferioribus 

 usque ad 3 6 cm. longis, spicularum fasciculis parvis ovoideis sessili- 

 bus distantibus, bracteis quam spiculae brevioribus; stylo 3-fido; nuce 

 1 mm. in diam., obovoidea, trigono-globosa, alba, transversim grossius 

 verrucosa, in 3 faciebus a spatio levi longitudinaliter costata. 



Scleria Liebnianni Steud.! Cgp. (1855) p. 179. 



Scleria luxulaeformis C Wright! in Sauv. Cub. (1871) n. 2715 

 p. 188. 



Scleria tenella Griseb.! Pl Cub. (1866) p. 249 pro parte, non 

 Kunth. 



Scleria verticillata Boeck.! in Engl. Jahrb. I (1881) p. 364; non 

 Willd. 



Hgpoporuni purpurascens Liebm.! Mex. Halvgr. (1850) p. 68, 



71071 Kcrs. 



Hgpoporum verticiUatum Nees! in Bonplandia III (1885) p. 87; 

 nec Necs iu Linuaca IX (ls:>4) p. 303. 



Hab. in Cuba; C. Wright n. 3418 A, C herb. Kew. 

 Distrib. a Mexico usque ad Brasiliani australem. 



202. Sclcria hirtella Swartz, pilosa, rhizomate 3 5 mm. in diam. 

 usque ad 1 dm. longo; culmis subdistantibus, 2 6 dm. longis, gracilio- 

 ribus, ima basi angustis; foliis imis abbreviatis, superioribus 1 2 dm. 

 longis 2 4 mm. latis; spica (specie) simplice, 8 20 cm. longa; spicu- 

 larum fasciculis hispidis pleiostachyis, proventu nutantibus; spiculis4mm. 

 longis, 3 12-nim fasciculatis, saepe castaneis aut ferrugineis, plurimis 

 androgynis; glumis inferioribus vacuis et gluma nucigera aristatis; stylo 

 3-fklo; nuce 1 mm. longa, obovoidea subtrigona, levi, alba, sub baseos 

 contractione a poris 9 12 excavata. 



Scleria hirtella Swartx! Prod. (1788) p. 19 ct Fl. Tnd. Occid. I 

 p. 93: Kuuth Kumn. 1 1 j>. 353; Boech! in Linnaea XXXVIII (1874) 

 p. 439 a jiar/i/ nec 4 ucc y; Oriseb.! Flor. p. 5 79 (syn. exct.) ct Pl. 

 Cub. j>. 249; Sauv. Oub. u. 2717 p. 189; C. B. Clarkc in Dgcr Fl. 

 Cap. VII p. 294. 



Scleria nutans Kunth! Knum. II (1837) p. 352; Liebm.! Mex. 

 Hatvgr. p. 67; Sauv.! Cub. n. 2716 p. 189. 



