Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 443 



Owing to two different species having been distributed as 

 Scirpus jiincoides under C. Wright's Cuban No. 1533, I formerly 

 misidentified Professor Underwood's No. 3364 and recorded it* 

 as Stenophyllus subaphyllus (Clarke) Britton, a species apparently 

 restricted to eastern Cuba. 



FiMBRiSTYLis MiLiACEA (L.) Vahl, Enum. 2: 287. 1806 



Savannas and swamps, Belle Vue, near Spanish Town {Harris 

 J 2 182, 1 2 188). 



Distribution: Southern United States; Cuba; Porto Rico; 

 continental tropical America and Old World tropics. 



Rynchospora oligantha a. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 212. 1835 



HoUis savanna, Upper Clarendon {Harris 12240). 

 Distribution: Southeastern United States. Not yet de- 

 tected in Cuban savannas. 



Rynchospora pusilla Chapm.; Curtis, Am. Jour. Sci. II. 7: 



409. 1849 



Rynchospora intermixta C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. Habana 



8: 88. 1872 



Bull Head Mountain, along roadside in wet places {Harris. 

 12261) . 



Distribution: Southeastern United States; Santa Clara:,. 

 Pinar del Rio and Isle of Pines, Cuba. 



Scleria gracilis Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 571. 1824 



Bull Head Mountain, 800-900 m. alt., forming small patches 

 on exposed hillside {Harris 12262). 



Distribution: Southeastern United States; Pinar del Rio and 

 Isle of Pines, Cuba. 



45. STENOPHYLLUS Raf. IN THE WEST INDIES 



Type species: Scirpus Stenophyllus Ell. The generic name 

 dates from 1825 (Neog. 4). The name Bulhostylis, taken up by 

 Mr. C. B.Clarke for the genus in 1893 (Hook. f. Fl. Brit. India) 

 and subsequently, was first published by Kunth, under Isolepis, 

 in 1837 (Enum. 2: 205). 



* Bull. Dept. Agric. Jamaica 5: Suppl. I, 12. 1907. 



