Britton: StupDIES OF WEsT INDIAN PLANTS 443 
Owing to two different species having been distributed as 
Scirpus juncoides 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 
12182, 12188). 
DIsTRIBUTION: Southern United States; Cuba; Porto Rico; 
continental tropical America and Old World tropics. 
RYNCHOSPORA OLIGANTHA A. Gray, Ann. Lyc. N. Y.3:212. 1835 
Hollis savanna, Upper Clarendon (Harris 12249). 
DisTRIBUTION: Southeastern United States. Not yet de- 
tected in Cuban savannas. 
RYNCHOSPORA PUSILLA Chapm.; Curtis, Am. Jour. Sct. 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 Rar. IN THE WEST INDIES 
Type species: Scirpus Stenophyllus Ell. The generic name 
dates from 1825 (Neog. 4). The name Bulbostylis, 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. 1,12. 1907- 
