~ BotanicaL GAZETTE. 
Vou. IX. JUNE, 1884. No. 6. 
Notes on Cyperacee. 
BY WILLIAM BOOFPFT. 
Stem filiform, smooth, 3-15 inches long. Leaves 2-4, very 
narrow, channeled, shorter than the stem. Spike oblong, simple, 
of from 3-8 contiguous sessile spikelets at the summit of the 
stem, naked or subtended by a narrow leaf-like bract that often 
_ exceeds the stem. Spikelets 2 ranked, lanceolate, 3 lin. long, 
2-5 flowered. Scales chestnut, membranous, ovate, few-nerved. 
Nut elliptical, biconvex, acuminate, tipped by the long continu- 
ous bipartite style, acute at base. Bristles commonly none. 
Stamens 3. 
Ruyncospora Harveyt, sp. nu. Glauca. Culmo 1}-2 
Ee tite, gracili, triangulo, levi, basi plurifoliato. Foliis 1 lin. 
atis, 6-10 poll. longis, apice scabro attenuatis ; culmeis 2, su- 
remum medio culmo ortum, Vaginis 1 poll. longis. Bracteis 
erbaceis, angustis corymbis longioribus. Corymbis 2-3, remotis, 
Benes majore composita, brevi 2-3 ramoso (ramis 3 poll. longis 
ve brevioribus), reliquis subsimplicibus pedunculatis. Pedun- 
