140 C. B. Clarke: 



Hab. in Cuba: C. Wrigbt 3418 B, D in hb. Kew; Hispaniola: 

 Jacquemont; Portorico: hb. Desfontaines (verisim. Riedle v. Ledrii 

 leg.); St. Thomas: Riedlo; Guadeloupe in savannis Camp Jacob 540 m. 

 alt: Duss n. 3109, 3736, Husnot n. 45. 



Obs. Scleria distans Nees (e Neesii descriptione) discrepat ob nucem 

 tubercidatam, et ad S. interruptam Eich, forsan refert. 



201. Scleria Liel>maiiiii Steud. praeter vaginas inferiores glabra, 

 gracilis, radicibus fibrosis; panicula laxa, ramis gracilibus, inferioribus 

 usque ad 3 — 6 cm. longis, spicularum fasciculis parvis ovoideis sessili- 

 bus distantibus, bracteis quam spiculae brevioribus; stylo 3-fido; nuce 

 1 mm. in diam., obovoidea, trigono-globosa, alba, transversim grossius 

 verrucosa, in 3 faciebus a spatio levi longitudinaliter costata. 



Scleria Liebmanni Steud.! Cyp. (1855) p. 179. 



Scleria luxulaeformis C. Wriglit! in Sauv. Oiih. (1871) n. 2715 

 p. 188. 



Scleria tenella Griseb.! PI. Cub. (1866) p. 249 jiro parte, non 

 Kunth. 



Scleria verticillata Boeck.I in Engl. Jahrb. I (1881) p. 364; non 

 Willd. 



Hypoporum piirpurascens Liebm.! Mer. Halvgr. (1850) p. 68, 

 non Nees. 



Hypoporum verticillatiim Nees! in Bonpla7idia III (1885) p. 87; 

 nee Nees in Linnaen IN (1834) p. 303. 



Hab. in Cuba; C. Wright n. 3418 A, C herb. Kew. 



Distrib. a Mexico usque ad Brasiliain australem. 



202. Scleria hirtella Swartz, pilosa, rhizomate 3 — 5 mm. in diam. 

 usque ad 1 dm. longo; culmis subdistantibus, 2 — 6 dm. longis, gracilio- 

 ribus, ima basi angustis; foliis imis abbroviatis, superioribus 1 — 2 dm. 

 longis 2 — 4 mm. latis; spica (specie) simplice, 8 — 20 cm. longa; spicu- 

 larum fasciculis hispidis pleiostachyis, proventu nutantibus; spiculis4mm. 

 longis, 3 — 12-nim fasciculatis, saepe castaneis aut ferrugineis, plurimis 

 androgynis; glumis inferioribus vacuis et gluma nucigera aristatis; stylo 

 3-fido; nuce 1 mm. longa, obovoidea subtrigona, levi, alba, sub baseos 

 contractione a poris 9 — 12 excavata. 



Scleria hirtella Swartz! Prod. (1788) p. 19 et Fl. Ind. Occid. I 

 p. 93; Kuntli Enurn. II p. 353; Boeck! in Linnaea NNN VIII (1874) 

 p. 439 a partim nee ß nee y; Griseb.! Flor, j)- 579 (syn. excl.) et PI. 

 Cub. p. 249; Sauv. Cub. n. 2717 p. 189; C. B. Clarke in Dyer FL 

 Cap. VII p. 294. 



Scleria nutans Kunth! Emmi. II (1837) p. 352; Liebm.! Mex. 

 Halvgr. p. 67; Sauv.! Cub. n. 2716 p. 189. 



