Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 447 



Type locality: Surinam. 



Distribution: Province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba; western Porto 

 Rico: continental tropical America. The Porto Rico plant was 

 referred by Clarke to Biilbostylis Langsdorffiana. 



13. Stenophyllus junciformis (HBK.) Britton, Bull. Torrey 



Club 43: 442. 1916- 



I solepis junciformis HBK. Nov. Gen. i: 222. 1815. 

 Scirpus juncoides Willd.; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 572. 1864. 



Type locality: Near the Guachari cavern, 500 feet alt. 



Distribution: Savannas and pine-lands, province of Pinar del 

 Rio, Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Trinidad: continental tropical 

 America. 



14. Stenophyllus antillanus sp. nov. 



Culms tufted, nearly filiform, 2-4.5 dm. long, minutely rough- 

 ciliolate or smooth. Leaves filiform, similar to the culm and one 

 half to two thirds its length, rough-ciliolate or smooth, their 

 sheaths pilose. Umbel compact or subcapitate; spikelets few or 

 several, linear, 6-12 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, 8-12-flowered; 

 scales ovate, known with a strong, whitish keel, acute, 1.5 mm. 

 long; achene obovoid, nearly white, sharply trigonous, 0.7 mm. 

 long, papillose, tipped by a minute, conic tubercle. 



Dominica and Martinique. Type from Grand Savanna, 

 Dominica (F. E. Lloyd 822). 



Referred by Clarke (in Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 89. 1900) to 

 S. capillaris. 



15. Stenophyllus coarctatus (Ell.) Britton; Small, Fl. SE. 



U. S. 189. 1903 



Scirpus coarctatus Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. i: 83. 1816. 



Type locality: Beaufort, South Carolina. 



Distribution: On a sand pile in Santiago Harbor, Oriente, 

 Cuba, March, 1909; southeastern United States. 



16. Stenophyllus capillaris (L.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 



21: 30. 1894 



Scirpus capillaris L. Sp. PL 49. 1753. 



Biilbostylis capillaris Clarke; Hook, f. Fl. Brit. India 6: 652. 



1893. 



Type locality: Virginia. 



