Vol. 41 | No. 1 
BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
ee ne 
JANUARY, 1914 
Studies of West Indian plants—V 
NATHANIEL LorRD BRITTON 
23. ADDITIONAL SEDGES FROM JAMAICA* 
Cyperus comosus Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 5: 185. 1817 
Shettlewood, Hanover (Harris 11647). 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba; continental tropical America. 
ScIRPUS CUBENSIS Kunth, Enum. 2: 172. 1837 
River Head, near Ewarton (Underwood 1860). 
DIsTRIBUTION: Southern United States; Cuba; Hispaniola; 
Trinidad; continental tropical America; tropical Africa. 
RYNCHOSPORA CYMOSA (Michx.) Ell. Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1: 58. 
1816 
Savannah, Upper Clarendon (Harris 11103). 
DISTRIBUTION: Southeastern United States; Cuba; Hispaniola; 
Porto Rico; Martinique; South America. 
Rynchospora jamaicensis sp. nov. 
Rootstocks short; culms clustered, slender, 6-8 dm. long, 
reclining. Leaves 2~3 mm. wide, rather stiff, the lower 2-5 cm. 
long, the middle ones 12-15 cm. long, those subtending the clusters 
of spikelets 6-10 cm. long; sheaths of all the leaves densely short- 
pubescent; spikelets loosely panicled in several distant axillary 
clusters and in a terminal one, short-pedicelled, the axis of the 
inflorescence loosely pubescent; spikelets narrowly conic, 4-5 mm, 
* See Bull. Dept. Agric. Jam. 5: Suppl. 1. 1907. Bull. Torrey Club 35: 568, 569. 
1900. 
[The BULLETIN for December (40: 653-712. pl. 25, 26) was issued 8 Ja 1914.] 
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