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 Bulbostylis Langsdorffiana. 
13. STENOPHYLLUS JUNCIFORMIS (HBK.) Britton, Bull. Torrey 
Club 43: 442. 1916 ; 
Isolepis junciformis HBK. Nov. Gen. 1: 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. 
I5. STENOPHYLLUS CoARCTATUS (Ell.) Britton; Small, FI. SE. 
S. 189. 1903 
Scirpus coarctatus Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 83. 1816. 
TyprE Locaity: 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. 
Bulbostylis capillaris Clarke; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. India 6: 652. 
1893. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Virginia. 
