144 C. B. Clarke: 



Hab. in Cuba: Sagra, C. Wright n. 3416 a , 3800. 



Distrib. a New Jersey usque ad Florida, Mexico; in Guiana, Brasilia 

 usque ad Pernambuco. 



208. Scleria hemitaphra Steud. fere glabra, rhizomate 0; culmis 

 3 8 dm. longis, pro longitudine gracilioribus; paniculis axillaribus 

 pyramidalibus, rigidis, saepe 2 4 cm. latis, bracteis secundariis con- 

 spicue exstantibus; spiculis unisexualibus; stylo 3-fido; nuce V-j 2 2 mm. 

 longa, ellipsoidea, fenestrata; reticulationibus levibus, sparse tenuissime 

 pilosis; disci lobis parvis, ovatis, saepe triangularibus. 



Seleria hemitaphra Steud.f Cyp. (1855) p. 169. 



Scleria reticularis Spreng. Syst. III (1826) p. 831 partim; Boeck.f 

 in Linnaea XXXVIII (1874) p. 469. 



Scleria bracteata var. angusta Griseb.f Pl. Cub. (1866) p. 249. 



Scleria debilis C. Wrightf in Sauv. Cub. (1871) n. 2704 p. 186. 



Scleria Torreyana var. Boeck.f in Linnaea XXXVIII (1874) 

 p. 469. 



Scleria setacea Poir. in Lam. Encycl. VII (1806) p. 4 e descript. 



Scleria micrantha Poir. Encyc. Suppl. V (1817) p. 108; Kunth 

 Enum. II p. 359; e descript. 



Hab. in Cuba: C. Wright n. 3416 b in herb. Kew. (Savanna Retiro), 

 n. 3416 herb. Mus. Brit. ; Portorico prope Hato grande in graminosis 

 ad montem Gregorio: Sintenis n. 2718. 



Distrib. in America septentr., austro-orient, , Mexico, Guatemala. 



209. Scleria lacustris C. Wright, robustior, parum pilosa, radi- 



cibus fibrosis in aqua natantibus; culmo 8 dm. longo, triquetro, in an- 

 gulis perscabro; foliis usque ad 6 dm. longis, 11 mm. latis; paniculis 

 1 2, inferiore longe distante, terminali 1 dm. longa 6 cm. lata, ramis 

 rigidis, spicularum fasciculis sessilibus paullo distantibus; spiculis om- 

 nibus 1-sexualibus, fere glabris, fusco-bruneis, foemineis 4 mm. longis; 

 gluma nucigera acuta, vix mucronata; stylo 3-fido; nuce 3 mm. longa, 

 ovoidea, levi, marmorea, alba; disco depresse obpyramidali, pallido, 

 margine angustissimo purpureo subintegro. 



Scleria lacustris C. Wright! in Sauv. Cub. (1871) n. 2700 p. 185. 



Scleriii Junghuhniana Boeck in Linnaea XXXVIII (1874) p.499. 



Hab. in Cuba: C. Wright 



Distrib. Guiana gallica; Java, 



210. Scleria cyperina Kunth, glabra, robusta, perennis, culmo 

 6 dm. longo, triquetro, levi; foliis 3 dm. longis, 9 12 mm. latis, 3-ner- 

 viis, vaginis (anguste aut mediocriter) alatis, ligula 9 mm. longa ovata 

 venosa in margine integro scariosa; panicula terminali 6 cm. longa 35 mm. 

 lnta, densiuscula; bracteis 3 foliiformibus 5 8 cm. Longis 9 mm. latis; 



