Jennings: Contribution to Botany of Isle of Pines. 75 



Inflorescence not glomerate-spicate, panicle loose. 



172. Scleria lithosperma. 

 Panicles long and many-flowered; upper spikelets pistillate, the lower staminate. 



173. Lagenocarpus guianensis. 



139. Kyllingia brevifolia Rottboell. 

 Kyllingia brevifolia Rottboell, Descriptiones et Icones Plantarum Rariorum, 



1773. P- 13. pl- 4. fig- 3- 

 Kyllingia monocephala Thunberg, Flora Japonica, 1784, p. 35. 

 Kyllingia putnila A. Richard, In Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 



Isla de Cuba, XI, 1850, p. 288. 



Near Nueva Gerona, January 9, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 281; 

 Blain, No. 168, northern part of the island (Millspaugh). General 

 Distribution: Low grounds, etc., Georgia and Florida to Texas, the 

 Bermudas, the West Indies, and the tropics generally. 



140. Cyperus elegans Linnaeus. 



Cyperus elegans LiNN^us, Species Plantarum, Ed. II, 1762, p. 68. 

 Cyperus viscosus Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 

 dentalis, 1788, p. 20. 



Near Nueva Gerona, June 12. 1912, G. A. Link. General Distri- 

 bution: Southern Florida: widely reported from the West Indies, 

 Central America, Argentina. 



141. Cyperus Swartzii (Dietrich) Boeckeler. 



Kyllingia filiformis Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 20. 

 Mariscus Swartzii Dietrich, in Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, Ed. VI, 1833, p. 343. 

 Mariscus filiformis Sprengel, Systema Vegetabilium, I, 1825, p. 234. 

 Cyperus Swartzii Boeckeler, MS. 



Near Nueva Gerona, March and April, 1904, A. H. Curiiss, No. 383. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, Isle of Pines, Jamaica, and Hispaniola. 



142. Cyperus ligularis Linnaeus. 



Cyperus ligularis Linn^us, Systema Naturae, II, Ed. X, 1759, p. 867. 

 Mariscus rufus Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species Plan- 

 tarum, I, 1815, p. 216, t. 67. 

 Mariscus ligularis Urban, Symbolae Antillanae, II, 1900, p. 165. 



Along bank of stream south of Nueva Gerona, May 9, 1910, 0. E. 



Jennings, No. 160. General Distribution: In wet sandy or swampy 



soil, from Florida and the Bahamas, quite generally distributed 



through the West Indies and continental tropical America, as far 



outh as Brazil. Also in tropics of Old World. 



