70 C. B. Clarke: 



inspersis; vagina summa apice in altero latere lanceolato- producta, non 

 detergibili; spicula 3 5 mm. longa, 3 10-flora, fusce straminea; glu- 

 mis 3 pleio-spiris, ovatis vix aciitis; setis 5 6, nucem s-uperautibus, 

 retrorsim scabris, ferrugineo-bruneis; stylo 3-fido; nuce obovoidea, apice 

 angustata, trigona, levi, albida; stylobasi pyramidali, brunescente. 



Chaetocyperiis polymorpha vcir. sphagnicola et praUcola Nees! in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. II jmrs 1 (1843) p. 94 (syn. jiirimis excl). 



Heleocharis punctata Boeck.! in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjob. (1869 70) 

 p. 420 (non Chaetocypems punctatus Nees). 



Scirpus retroflexus Griseb.f Kar. (1857) p. 120; non Poir. 



Hab. in Guadeloupe: Duchassaing. 



Distrib. in America anstrali aeqninoctiali. 



84. Eleocliaris Wriglitiaiia C. B. Clarke, rhizoraate nullo; culmis 

 5 10 cm. longis, fere capillaribus; vagina summa apice subinflata, 

 scariosa, in 2 labia oblonga fissa; spicula 5 9 mm. longa, anguste 

 ellipsoidea, 12 IS-flora, brunea; glumis inferioribus 3 4-spiris, ovatis, 

 obtusis, ima vacua decidua; setis 5, iuaequalibus, cum nuce vix aequi- 

 longis, retrorsim scabris, pallide ferrngineis, interdum multum depau- 

 peratis; stylo 3-fido; nuce obovoidea, apice multum angustata, levi 

 tenuiter reticulata, straminea proventu brunescente; stylobasi anguste 

 conica, nigrescente. 



Scirpus exiyuus Griseb.f Flor. (1864) p. 569, PI. Gab. p. 239. 

 Scirpns setacens C. Wright! in Saav. Cub. (1871) n. 2614 p. 174. 

 Heleocharis Wrightiana Boeck. f Gyp. Novae. Heft I (1888) p. 12. 

 Hab. in Cuba; C. Wright n. 3369; Trinidad: Crueger. 

 Distrib. Gruiana, ad Amazonas inferiorem. 



85. Eleocliaris miiiinia Kunth, rhizomate tenuissimo, repente; 

 culmis caespitosis 1 15 cm. longis, capillaribus; vagina summa stricta, 

 castanea; spicula 2 4 mm. longa, 8 10-flora; glumis imis subdistichis, 

 vix acutis, atrosanguineis vel bruneis; setis imperfectis, Y2 P^irte nucis 

 brevioribus, levibus vel vix scabris albis, interdum in annulum basalem 

 reductis; stylo 3-fido; nuce obovoidea apice truncata, levi, alba in an- 

 gulis 3 costata; stylobasi depresso-globosa, nigrescente. 



Eleocliaris minima Knnth! Enum. II (1837) p. 139. 



Chaetocypems polymcrrphus a depauperata minima et y capillacea 

 Nees.' in Mart. Bras. II pars I (1843) p. 94 partim (syn. midtis excl.). 



Chaetocypej'Ks urceolatns Liebm.! Mexic. Halvgr. (1851) p. 55. 



Heleocharis nana Boeck.! in Linnaea XXXVI (1869 70) p.421 

 p)ro magna parte et in Engl. Jahrb. I (1881) p. 363; non Knnth. 



Heleocharis minntiflora Boeck! in Engl. Jahrb. VIII (1886) p. 274. 



Heleocharis cubensis Boeck.! Gyp. Novae. Heft II (1890) p. 10. 



