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12. ScLERiA STEREORRHIZA C. Wright; Clarke in Urban, Symb. 



Ant. 2: 147. 1900 



Scleria hracteata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 249. 1866. Not Cav. 



Scleria hracteata angustata Griseb. loc. cit. 1866. 



Scleria stereorrhiza major Clarke in Urban, loc. cit. 1900. 



Along streams and on hillsides, Santa Clara; Havana; Pinar 

 del Rio. Endemic. 



13. Scleria pilosissima sp. nov. 



Perennial by short, branched rootstocks; culms rather slender, 

 but stiff, sharply 3-angled, loosely pilose, simple, 3-4 dm. high. 

 Leaves roughish-margined, 1-2 dm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, acu- 

 minate, stiff, densely pilose, the midvein prominent beneath; 

 clusters of spikelets i or 2, pilose, 2-4 cm. long, the staminate and 

 pistillate spikelets intermixed; scales lanceolate, acute, pubescent; 

 achene subglobose, 2-2.5 ""^rn. in diameter, transversely verrucose, 

 pubescent, obtuse, abruptly apiculate; hypogynium with 3 

 rounded, appressed lobes. 



Sunny hillsides among rocks, between Punta Gorda and Wood- 

 fred, Oriente, Cuba, 400-500 m. alt. (Shafer joqq). 

 Related to S. stereorrhiza C. Wright. 



14. Scleria MiCROCARPA Nees, Linnaea 9: 302. 1834 



Scleria foliosa C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 8: 154. 



1872. Not A. Rich. 

 Scleria microcarpa foliosa Clarke In Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 149. 



1900. 



River banks, Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines: — Porto Rico; 

 Guadaloupe; Jamaica; Trinidad; continental tropical America. 



15. Scleria mitis Berg. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. 26: 145. 



1865 



Scleria Eggersiana Boeckl. Cyp. Nov. 2: 41. 1890. 



Pinal de Sta. Ana collected by Eggers, according to Clarke:— 

 Porto Rico; Guadeloupe; Martinique; St. Vincent; Trinidad: 

 continental tropical America. 



16. Scleria phylloptera C. Wright; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 248. 



1866 

 Scleria microcarpa angustifolia Boeckl. Flora 64: 79. 1881. 



