18 G. o. MALME, XYRIDACE^ BRASILIENSES. 



versus dense et sat longe ciliata, iisqiie ad -/s complicata 

 (margine complicationis glabro), basi in vaginam rufescenti- 

 spadiceam, extus scabridam, dorso oarinatam, margine ecilia- 

 tam sensim ampliata. Scapns teretiusculus v. prffisertim su- 

 perne indistincte complanatus, ecostatns, glaber leevisque, usque 

 ad 1 m. altus, basi vagina aplijdla, 35 — 45 cm. longa, viridi, 

 dorso et marginibns fere usque ad basin ciliata instructus. 

 Spica subliemisphferica, 15 — 18 mm. longa, 18—20 ( — 22) mm. 

 crassa; bracteis inferioribus (llores baud suffulcientibus) mi- 

 noribus, + squarrosis, semiorbicularibus — late ovatis, obtu- 

 sissimis; mediis late obovatis, 8 — 9 mm. longis, 6 — 7 mm. latis, 

 sat planis, ferrugineo-fuligineis, marginibus succineis, apice 

 adustis, basin versus spadiceis, ima basi nitidis, ceterum 

 opacis, ecarinatis, subintegerrimis v. + laceratis; superioribus 

 byalino-marginatis, acutiusculis, breviter mucronatis. Sepala 

 lateralia libera, bracteis longiora, valde ineequilatera, spa- 

 thulato-lanceolata, curvata, carinata, carina prtesertim superne 

 late alata, niedio subtilissime ciliata, apicem versus dentata. 

 Staminodia bibracliiata, brachiis longe penicillatis. (Aiitherse 

 lineares, obtuspe, lilamentis breviores? Capsula?) 



Minas Geraes: Grlaziou N:o 19948. 



X. spectahili Mart., quacum a celeberr. Poulsen commixta 

 est (Vidensk. Meddel. fra naturhist. Foren. Kjobenhavn. 1893. 

 Pag> 118), arcte affinis. Recedit spica multo crassiore, brac- 

 teis latioribus, sepalorum lateralium carina apicem versus 

 late alata dentataque etc. 



Das Clefässbiindel der Wurzeln peutarch olme centrales Grefäss, Pericam- 

 bium den Gefässen gegeniiber nicht abgebrochen. Die Endodertnis (ein — ) 

 zweischichtig. 



Xyris Glaziowii Alb. Nilss. 



Nilsson, Studien pag. 61. 



Rio de Janeiro: Serra dos Orgäos (in uliginosis. 18^/387. 

 H. ScHENCK N:o 2979). 



Abolboda vaginata (Spreng.) Alb. Nilss, 



Nilsson, Studien pag. 63. 



Goyaz: Glaziou N:o 22234. 



Måtto Grosso: Lindman (Exped. I Regnell. Pbanerog. N:o 

 2421.). 



