﻿Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



porting 3 deeply 3-lobed tubercles. 

 Achene verrucose-reticulated ; hypogy- 

 nium 3-lobed. 

 Glabrous or nearly so. 

 Leaves and sheaths densely pilose- 



[nearly or quite eciliate ii 



Style-base black, persistent; achene ellip 

 Style-base pale, deciduous; achene sut 



Margin of the hypogynium densely 

 long-ciliate. 

 the hypogynium 3-Iobed, the lobes 



Inflorescence simply glomerate-spicate. 

 Inflorescence branched. 

 Perennial by rootstocks. 



; achene smooth. 



. hirtella. 



Inflorescence subcapitate. 



28. 5. Baldwinii. 



I. SCLERIA SETACEA Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 7: 4. 

 Scleria hemitaphra Steud. Syn. PI. Cyp. 169. 1855. 

 Scleria Torreyana Walp. Ann. 3: 696. 1853. 



