﻿492 Britton: Studies of West Indian plants 



Moist savannas and borders of lagoons, Santa Clara; Pinar del 

 Rio. Endemic. 



17. ScLERiA cuBENSis Boeckl. Cyp. Nov. 2: 42. 1890 

 Scleria microcarpa suheciliata Clarke in Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 

 149. 1900 

 Banks and woodlands, mountains of Orlente and Santa Clara : — 

 Hispaniola; Porto Rico; Jamaica. 



18. Scleria Grisebachii Clarke in Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 150. 



1900 

 Bogs, Santa Clara; Havana: — Hispaniola; Antigua; Dominica; 

 Martinique; Jamaica. 



19. Scleria porphyrorrhiza C. Wright; Sauvalle, Anales Acad. 



Habana 8: 155. 1872 

 Pinelands, Pinar del Rio. Recorded by Clarke from Brazil. 



20. Scleria havanensis sp. nov. 



Rootstocks stout, horizontal, 3-4 cm. long, about 6 mm. thick. 

 Culms many, slender, trigonous, nearly smooth, about 5 dm. 

 long; leaves nearly smooth, narrow, 1-1.5 mm. wide; inflorescence 

 a single small cluster of intermixed staminate and pistillate spike- 

 lets; achene white, ridged-reticulated, globose-oblong, rounded, 

 2 mm. long; hypogynium low, obscurely 3-lobed, covered with a 

 rough whitish crust. 



Coca Hill, Campo Florida, province of Havana {Brother Leon 

 4731)' 



21. Scleria distans Poir, in Lam. Encycl. 7: 4. 1806 

 Scleria tenella Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 249, in part. 1866. Not 



Kunth. 

 ? 5. hirtella pauciliata Britton, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Scl. 3 : 236. 1885. 



Cuba, collected by Wright: — Hispaniola; Porto Rico; St. 

 Thomas; Guadeloupe. 



22. Scleria pinetorum sp. nov. 

 Annual, with many finely fibrous roots; culms slender, erect, 

 2-4 dm. high. Leaves grass-like, pubescent with spreading hairs, 

 1-2 mm. wide; inflorescence glomerate-spicate, 5-8 cm. long; 



