[From the Uullbtin of thb Tokrby Botanical Club, 43: 441-469. 10 S 1916.] 



Studies of West Indian plants — VIII 



Nathaniel Lord Brittox 



44. FURTHER RECORDS OF JAMAICA SEDGES* 



Cyperus fugax Liebm. Vid. Selks. Skr. V. 2: 196. 1851 



Savanna, Belle Vue, near Spanish Town (Harris 12183). 

 Distribution: Mexico and Guatemala. 



Cyperus cyperoides (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 32.- 333. 1898 



Scirpiis cyperoides L. Mant. 181. 1771. 

 Maziscus Sieherianus Nees, Linnaea 9: 286. 1831. 

 Maviscus cyperoides Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 164. 1900. Not M. 



cyperoides A. Dietr. 



Belle Vue, near Spanish Town, in wet hollows in pastures 

 {Harris 12045) 5 previously collected in Jamaica by Hart and by 

 Wullschlaegel. 



Distribution: Trinidad. Native of the Old World tropics. 



Cyperus nanus Willd. 



In Bull. Dept. Agric. Jamaica 5: Suppl. i, 9, 1 noted Mr. C. B. 

 Clarke's record of this species from Jamaica, as based on the same 

 specimen {March 13) as his record of Mariscus gracilis Vahl 

 {Cyperus granularis [Desf.] Britton), and I subsequently ascer- 

 tained that this specimen preserved in the Kew herbarium is 



* Bull. Dept. Agric. Jamaica 5: Suppl. i. 1907. Bull. Torrej' Club 35: 568, 569. 

 1909. Ibid. 41: I, 2. 1914. 



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