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ciliate, light brown, membranous, obtusish, 5 mm. long, 1.5 

 mm. wide, the midvein prominent. Stamens 3; style 3-cleft, 

 the pubescent branches about as long as the glabrous lower part ; 

 achene obovoid, dull black, bluntly trigonous, nearly i mm. long, 

 capped by a minute depressed tubercle. 



Bahama Islands: Castle Island, Percy Wilson 778g, Dec. 29, 

 1907 (type); West End, Little Inagua, Percy Wilson 7778. 



^' Stenophyllus portoricensis sp. nov. 



Densely tufted, perennial. Culms setaceous, slightly rough- 

 ened, weak, spreading, glabrous, 2 dm. high or less, longer than 

 the similar leaves; leaf -sheaths loosely pilose; spikelet solitary, 

 linear, 5-8 mm. long, subtended by a setaceous bract 2-3 cm, 

 long; lowest scale ovate, acute, i mm. long, the others lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 2.5-3 rniri. long; achene narrowly oblong-obovate, 

 bluntly 3-angled with faces somewhat sunken, thickest a little 

 above the middle, 1.3 mm. long, 0.5 mm. thick, irregularly 

 roughened, tipped by a broad tubercle about 1.5 mm. high and 

 wide. 



Rocky coastal thicket near Guanica, Porto Rico, March 11, 12, 

 1913 {Britton and Shafer IQ16). 



Nearest related to the Cuban S. floccosus (Griseb.) Britton 

 [Scirpus floccosus Griseb.; Btilhostylis floccosa Clarke] which is 

 lower, with larger spikelets and smooth achenes. 



Fimbristylis inaguensis sp. nov. 

 Perennial by short stout rootstocks; culms rather stout, stiff, 

 smooth, compressed, 3-5 dm. tall. Basal leaves one-third to 

 two-thirds as long as the culm, flat, rather stiff, smooth, 1-2.5 

 mm. wide, obtuse; leaves of the involucre 2-4, the longer one 

 usually a little exceeding the inflorescence; umbel compound, 

 5-7 cm. broad, the rays 2-4 cm. long, ascending, the raylets 

 slender, 0.5-2 cm. long; spikelets narrowly oblong, 8-12 mm. 

 long, about 2.5 mm. thick, acute, many-flowered, solitary at 

 the ends of the rays and raylets; scales brown, glabrous, dull, 

 ovate, carinate, mucronate or the lower short-awned; achene 

 elliptic or obovate-elliptic, flat, blunt, finely reticulated, nearly 

 1.5 mm. long; style-branches 2. 



