Cyperaceae. 65 



(ad Lake Roseau, alt. 1000 metr.), 547 (locis humidis prope Laiidat), 

 852; Martinique: Guyon. 



Distrib. Texas, America centralis, America australis qnam tropica tam 

 temperata. 



75. Eleocliaris oai)illacea Kimth, rhizomate pertenui; culmis 

 fasciculatis, 2 — 5 cm. longis, capillaceis, subquadrangularibus; vagina 

 summa apice stricta, nee scariosa detergibili; spicula 2 — 3 mm. longa, 

 juniore lineari-cylindrica, 1 — 4-nucigera, ferruginea; glumis 2 imis 

 spiculam saepe subincludentibus, oblongis vix acutis, scariosis, iraa 

 saepius vaeua in carina viridiore; setis 4 — 6, cum nuce subaequi- 

 longis, retrorsim scabris, ferrugineis; staminibus 2 — 1; stylo 2-fido; 

 nuce cum 2/5 parte glumae subaequilonga, obovoidea, piano -couvexa, 

 levi, castanea; stylobasi parva, conica. 



Eleocliaris capülacea Kunth Emim. II (1837) p. 139; Sagra Fl. 

 aib. XI ]}. 288. 



Scirpus capülaceus Oriseb. PI. Cuh. (1866) p. 239. 



Chaetocyperus capülaceus Nees in Marl. Fl. Bras. II pars 1 (1842) 

 27. 93. 



Heleocharis capülacea BoecLI in Linnaea XXXVI (1869 — 70) 

 p. 434. 



Hab. in Cuba: C. Wriglit. 



Distrib. in America, a Carolina usque ad Paraguay. 



{^(hMiß^ 



76. Eleocharis atropurpurca /EAintli , annua, culmis 5 — 15 cm. 

 longis, tonuibus, striatis; vagina apice herbacea, nee scariosa deter- 

 gibili; spicula 3 -8 mm. longa, ovoidea, aut cylindrica, atropurpurea; 

 glumis polyspiris, late ellipticis, obtusis, caducis, ima paullo majore, 

 magis viridi, vacua; setis 7 — 5 (vel paucioribus Tel nullis), retrorsim 

 scabris, albis (raro pallide cinnamomeis); stylo 2-fido; nuce cum Y2 — ^3 

 parte glumae aequilonga, obovoidea, plano-convexa, atro- castanea; stylo- 

 basi minima, bulboso- conica. 



Eleocliaris atropurpurea Kunth! Enum. II (1837) p. 151; J.Gay! 

 in Flora XXV (1842) p. 641; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI p. 627. 



Eleocharis Lereschii Shuttleiv.! in Flora XX (1837) p. 241. 



Eleocharis capitata rar. ß. Torrey in A7in. Lyceum New York III 

 (1836) p. 305. 



Scirpus atropurpureus Ihtx. Obs. V (1789) p. 14. 



Scirpus ocreatus Griseb.! PI. Cub. (1866) p. 239. 



Isolepis atropurpurea Poem, et Seh. Syst. II (1817) p. 106; Kunth 

 Enum. II p. 190. 



Isolepis allochroa et I. dlchroa Steud. Cyp. (1855) p. 91. 



Urijan, Symb. ant. H. 5 



