11-1900 



Cyperaceae. 9 1 



Eriocaidon spadiceum Lam. III. I (1791) p. 214. 

 Schoemis spadiceus Vahl Emim. II (1806) ]) 210. 

 Nemum spadiceum Harn. Prod. Fl. Ind. Occid. (1825) p. 13; Kunth 

 Emim. II p. 220. 



Hab. in Hispaniola: herbb. Delessert, Berol. lectore ignoto. 

 Distrib. Sierra Leone. 



118. Scirpiis sul)mcrsus C. Wright, glaber, debilis, atroviridis, 

 caiilibns 3 5 dm. longis, submersis, nodosis, divisis; foliis fasciculatis, 

 5 8 cm. longis, capillaceis; pedimciilis .8 10 cm. longis, axillaribus, 

 monostachyis; spicula 8 mm. longa, oblongo-lanceolata, 1-nucigera; glu- 

 mis 2 imis 8 mm. longis, membranaceis, fere convol Litis, luteo-viridibus; 

 glumis caeteris brevioribus, paucis, masciilis aut rudimentariis vel 0; setis 

 10 6, nucem siiperantibus, retrorsim hispidis, stramineis; stylo longo, 

 ramis 2 longis, linearibus; staminibus 3; nuce cum Vo parte glumae 

 aequilonga, obovoidea, levi, pallida. 



Scirpus suhmersiis C. Wright! in Saiiv. Fl. Cub. (1871) n. 2627 

 p. 175; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI p. 653. 



Scirpus confervoides Fair, in Lam. Encyc. VI (1804) j^- 755 

 partim; Kunth Enuin. II p. 173 partim i. e. Willd. n. 1123 planta in 

 descriptione neque in diagnosi Kunthii exscripta. 



Eleocharis submersa Miq. in Linnaea XIX (1847) p. 225. 



Bkgnchospora ruppioides Benth.! in Hook. Ic. Fl. XIV (1881) 

 p. 31 t. 1344; Trimen! Syst. Cat. Ceylon Fl. p. 103. 



Wehsteria UmnopMla S. H. Wright in Bull. Torrey Club XIV 

 (1887) ]). 135. 



Schoenus confervoides Willd. 7ns. fide Link. 



Hab. in Cuba prope Pinar del Rio: C. Wright n. 3775. 



Distrib. Madagascar, Cejdon, Java, Carolina, Rio Negro, Surinam, 

 Paraguay. 



Obs. Planta (e mea sententia) Scirpo fluitanti Linn. affinis, a genere 

 Rhyncliospora longe distans ob stylobasin cum nucis apice continuam, folia, 

 giiunas inias longas, habitum. 111. Bentham propter spicidam 1-nucigerani 

 (characterem in Cj^peraceis levis momenti) lianc plantam in lihynchospora 

 verosimiliter locaverat. 



119. Scirpus iiaiius Spreng, glaber rhizomate tenuissimo, tubora 

 parva interdum gerente; culmis 3 10 cm. longis, aphyllis, setaccis, 

 monostachyis; spicula 3 5 mm. longa, specie terminali, 3 10-tlora, 

 ellipsoidea, pallida vel castaneo -rubra; glumis paucispiris, ovatis, ob- 

 tusis, ima cum caeteris fere consimili, sterili, caduca; setis 4 aut 6, 

 tenuibus, retrorsim scabris, fusce stramineis; staminibus 3; stylo longius- 

 culo 3-fido, basi pyramidali in nucem sensim transeunte; nuce cum 

 -/s parte glumae aequilonga, obovoidea, levi, luteo-brunea. 



