132 C. B. Clarke: 



^Bhynchospora deflexa Griseb.f PL Cub. (1866) p. 243; Sauv. 

 Cub. n. 2658 p. 179. 



Hab. in Cuba: Combs n. 1419 (St. Clara), Sagra, C. Wright n. 3399; 

 Hispaniola prope Puerto -Plata solo calcareo 50 m. alt, in monte 

 Isabel de la torre 400 m. alt, inter Batey et Jameo 150 m. alt: Eggers 

 n. 1658, 2600, 2600\ 



V 191. yncliospora Marisciilus C. B. Clarke, glabra, mediocris 



vel robustior, stolonibus in rhizoma repens 2 3 mm. in diam. indu- 

 ratis; culmo 5 10 dm. longo; foliis 2 4 dm. longis, 5^ 7 mm. latis, 

 rigidis, marginibus in sicco subrecurvis; corymbis distantibns, 4 8 cm. 

 in diam., densis, ramulis erectis apice siibnutantibus; spiculis 5 7 mm. 

 longis, approximatis fere fasciciatis, ellipsoideo-lanceolatis, 3 1-nuci- 

 geris, bruneis aut ferrugineo-bruneis; glumis ovato-lanceolatis, acutis; 

 setis 7, nuce multo longioribus, antice scabris basi saepe albo-pilosulis, 

 bruneis; stylo lineari, ramis 2 linearibus; nnce breviter stipitata, ob- 

 ovoidea, a 16 lineis nndulatis transversim notata; rostro cum Y2 Vs 

 parte nucis aequilongo, pallido, saepe scabrido. 



RhyncJiospora Mariscnlus Neesf in Linnaea IX (1834) p. 297 

 et in Mart. FL Bras. II pars I p. 142; Boeck. in Linnaea XXX VII 

 (1873) p. 590. 



Rhynchospora tenuiseta C. Wright! in Sauv. Cub. (1871) ?i. 2656 

 p. 179. 



Bhy7ichospora odorata C. Wright! in Sauv. Cub. (1871) n. 2655 

 p. 179; an Griseb. PL Cub. p. 242? 



Bhynchospora jubata Liebm.! Mexic. Halvgr. (1850) p. 66. 



Rhynchospora Uleana Boeck.! ms. in Ule n. 1394. 



Rhynchospora rigidula Schrader ms. ex Kunth Enum. II p. 297 

 in citat. 



Rhynchospora glauca (longirostris?) Kunth ms. fide Boeckeler. 



Schoemis Marisculus Salzmann! ms. 



Hab. in ins. Bahama: Eggers n. 4451 (Ngav Providence); Cuba: 

 Eggers n. 5018 (La Ciarita), C. Wright n. 3787, 3780 in hb. Kew et 

 Kr. et Urb.; Jamaica: Wilson n. 493; St Lucia: Tweedie. 



Distrib. a Mexico usque ad Paraguay, sat frequens. 



Obs. Species critica, a R. glauca Yahl (nisi maguitudine) parum diversa. 



^ 192. Ryiicliospora pruiuosa C. B. Clarke, glabra, gracilis, cul- 

 mis caespitosis 2 4 dm. longis; foliis 1^ 3 dm. longis, 2 3 mm. latis, 

 in utraque pagina pruinoso-scabratis; corymbis 1 3, parvis, remotis, 

 densis, 10 30-stachyis; spiculis 2 3 mm. longis, ovoideis, acutis, 

 fusce stramineis, 1-nucigeris; setis 6, cum nuce aequilongis, antice 

 scabris; stylo lineari, ramis 2 linearibus; nuce cum ^5 parte glumae 



