84 C. B. Clarke: 



stylobasi pyramidali tardius deciduo, ramis 3 longiusculis; nucc cum 

 2/5 parte glumae aequilonga, obovoidea, levi, transversim iindulata, stra- 

 niinea. 



Fimhristylis Grisehachii Grecnm.! in Trnns. Acad. Sei. St. Louis 

 VII (1897) iJ. 474. 



Ahildgaardia setacca Oriseb.f PI. Ciih. (1SG6) p. 238; Sauv.f Cub. 

 n. 26 08 p. 173. 



Hab. in Cuba: Combs n. 400 (Cieneguita), C.Wright n. 1531, 33G6. 



Species residuae. 



Fimbristylis divaricata Harn, culmis caespitosis, hirto-pilosis, 

 basi subramosis, ramis divaricatis; umbellis irregularibus; pediinculis 

 solitariis, subglobosis; pedicello elongato. 



Fimbristylis divaricata Harn. Prod. Fl. Ind. Occid. (1825) p. 14; 

 Ku7ith Enum. II p. 245; Desv. ms. ex Harn. 



Hab. in Portorico: fide Hamilton. 



Fiml)ristylis liirtella Ham. culmis caespitosis, subtetragonis, 

 piloso-hirtis; involucro subtriphyllo; ramis subtrifloris ; spicis ovatis; 

 pedunculis hirtis. 



Fimhristylis hirtella Ham. Prod. Fl. Ind. Occid. (1825) p.l^;L 

 Kunth Enum. II p. 245; Desv. ms. ex Ham. 



Fimhristylis HamiUonil^ Steud. l Oyp. (1855) p. 119. 



Hab. in Portorico: fide Hamilton. 



Fimbristylis Spartium Ham. culmo subcaespitoso; scapo sub- 

 complanato, basi distiche folioso- foliis subtcretibus, filiformibus, subtus 

 canaliculatis, culmum aequantibus; umbella irregulari; spicis (nigerrimis) 

 ovato-acutis; involucro diphyllo, uno multo longiore. 



Fimhristylis Spartium Ham. Prod. Fl. Ind. Occid. (1825) p.li; ji 

 Kunth Enum. II p. 245; Desv. ms. ex Ham. 



Hab. in Antillis: fide Hamilton. 



IX. Bulbostylis Kunth. 



Glumae nucigerae saepissime minuto pilosae. Stylus longus, 

 gracilis, glaber; rami 3, lineares; stylobasis perparva, a nuce distincta, 

 proventu (post stylum casum) in nuce relicta, decolorata; ceteroquin ut 

 Fimhristylis. — Stolones 0. Culmi caespitosi, graciles, nudi. Folia 

 setacea vel perangusta; vaginae in ore saepissime ciliatae aut barbatae. 

 Infloresccntia umbellata, aut monocephala, vel monostachya. Spi- 

 culae solitariae aut fasciculatae. 



Species 80, in calidis orbis terrarum sparsae, in Africa et America 

 praesertim numerosae. 



