490 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



5. Scleria Melaleuca Schl. & Cham. Linnaea 6: 29. 1831 



Savannas and banks, Camaguey; Havana; Pinar del Rio: 

 Jamaica; Porto Rico; St. Vincent to Trinidad; continental tropical 

 America. The West Indian specimens here referred are not very 

 different from the following species. 



6. Scleria pterota Presl in Oken, Isis 21: 268. 1828 



Scleria pratensis Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2 1 : 179. 1843. 

 Scleria Ottonis Boeckl. Linnaea 38: 490. 1874. 



Woodlands and banks, Santa Clara; Havana; Pinar del Rio; 

 Isle of Pines: Haiti to St. Thomas and Barbadoes; Jamaica; 

 continental tropical America. 



7. Scleria Wrightiana Boeckl. Flora 64: 79. 1881 



Scleria elata C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 8: 153. 



1872. Not Thwaites. 



Pine-lands and savannas, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines. 

 Endemic. 



8. Scleria setuloso-ciliata Boeckl. Flora 65: 30. 1882 

 Wet situations, Matanzas; Havana; Isle of Pines : Guatemala. 



9. Scleria scindens Nees, Linnaea 9: 303. 1834 



Mountain woodlands, Oriente: Tortola; St. Kitts to St. 

 Vincent. 



10. Scleria ciliata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 167. 1803 



Scleria Elliottii Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 531. i860. 



Barrens and pinelands, Santa Clara; Matanzas; Pinar del Rio; 

 Isle of Pines: southeastern United States; Santo Domingo. 



11. Scleria Curtissii Britton; Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. 200, 1328. 



1903 



? Scleria pauciflora effusa Clarke in Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 143. 



1900. 



Savannas, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines: Florida. Referred 

 by Wright, by Clarke and formerly by me to S. pauciflora Muhl. 



