caricine^ 53 1 



figura varlabiles generatim masculse sub-ternse foeminese 

 6ub-quaternse majores superiores quandoque apice ma- 

 sculse , fructus elliptici convexiusculi glabri rostello 

 minuto indiviso mucronulati squamam lanceolatam 

 vix superantes. 



III. ScLERiA Berg: Lin: gen: ed: Schreb: n. i^oS. = 

 Spr: syst: n. i^oS. = Lam: ill: t. ^62. (^Monoec: 

 i triand: W., Spr:). 



» Flores diclines squamis fasciculalis i-floris. Masc: 

 » Stam: i-3. Foem: in eadem vel diversa spicula mo- 

 » noici numquara dioici. Stigm: i - 3. Nux colorata 

 » squama triloba libera vel adnata basi cincta. » 



Obs: Genus Carici valde affine, sed prsesertim fru- 

 ctus structura satis distinctum 5 monente R. Br: prodr: 

 ed: 2. p. 96. plerseque stirpes prseter squamam tri- 

 lobam in floribus foemineis scutellum exhibent exte- 

 rius indivisum cum spicula post lapsum nucis et squa- 

 marum persistens. Species circiter 3o. omnes exoticae 

 prsesertim ex regionibus tropicalibus. Inter nonnullas 

 quas possideo notatu dignam existimo Sc: speciosam 

 a cl: Martio e Brasih bumaniter communicatam. 

 Planta valde elata, folia pedalia et ultra basi in pe- 

 tiolum laminam sub - aequans compressiusculum su- 

 perne margine longe pilosum desinentia, lamina lan- 

 ceolata 2. poll: circiter lata acuminata eleganter ner- 

 vosa superne glabra subtus et ad marginem scabrius- 

 cula , culmus acute tetragonus tenuissime striatus 

 scabriusculus superne alternatim pauiculatus spiculis 

 inferioribus sub-solitariis superioribus 3-4- fere ver- 



