23 
{tè | È. platypus, sp. n. ; culmis 10-25 cm. longis, —— basi 
in Boi ort obliquo ligneo crasse caespitosis ; 8 mm 
à m. latá castaneo-bruned ; ; stylo 3-fido tis 4, nuce 
gi mirus , ferrugineis ; nuce oblongo-ellipsoideà trigon, levi, 
luteâ ; yio- basi i Goniok in nuce sessili, cum hac s 
Rhizoma obliquum, 3-5 em. longum, r sx, radicibus 
multis longis lentis levibus. Culmi 5-6 striati; vagina 
apice truncata, firma, saepe p cens. Spicula polysperma ; 
g 2-3 1 ngae, multispirae, rotundo-ellipticae, castane 
purpureae in carinà luteae, 2 imae vix ores vacuae magis 
irides. Setae densae retrorsim hisp Filamenta lata. Styli 
basis a cellulis magnis ‘rotundo-ellipticis ‘conspicua ; nucis celluli 
extimi oblongi albidi crassi inconspicui. 
w 
— ECUADOR. Prope Guano, Spruce. pe E [3213] 
3559 E. crinalis, C. B. Clarke; Scirpus crinalis, Griseb., Pl. Lorentz. 
p. 217, et Symb. Argent., p. 311. [3215] 
7902 E. andesica, sp. n. ; culmus 4-5 dm. longo ; spicula 15 mm. longa, 
lanceolata, densa, castanea; setis 6, bruneis, nucem superan ntibus ; 
stylo 3-fido ; nuce maju usculá, trigoná, obovoi deà, viridi, apice in 
collum latum idée cylindraceum angustata ; stylo- -basi conica 
admodum depre 
Rhizoma wwa repens, castaneum, cum culmis exempla 
majuscula E. palustris referrens. Vaginae apice laxiusculae, 
integrae, truncatae. Spicula 3-4 mm. lata. Glumae ovatae vix 
acutae, castaneae, anguste albo-margin natae. ux viridis, ei 
E. peruvianae similis, sed cellulae extimae, perparvae vam 
quadratae (i.e. nux minute reticulata).  Stylo-basis nigrescen 
colli nucis marginem vix superans. 
“COLOMBIA. Andes de Bogota; alt. 2,660 m., Triana, n. zm 
[3252] 
E. Berlandieri, C. B. Clarke; culmis 1-2 dm. longis, tenuioribus; 
spicula 12 mm. longa, latius eylindricá ; glumis corneis, luteo- 
stramineis, fere concoloribus : eye fido; nuce oM -— 
ad 
3803 
D. 
E albida var. Berlandieri, Biles. in Journ. New York 
Microsc. Soc. v. (1889), p. 108. [3264] 
3299 E. decumbens, sp. n.; rhizomate crasso oblique descendente ; 
; € basalibus, 2 cm. longis, d Pierre pallide bruneis, 
perlaxis, stylo-basi ovoideá cum 3 parte utriculi aequilongà a 
poping dense squamosa ` vibituquia fere ut E ontana. 
montand paullo robustior. Culmi usque ad 5-6 dm. longi 
striati, eiecti, Spicae 6 mm. longae 34-4 mm. latae, cuboideo- 
wi sri Nux matura lutea, cellulis extimis inflatis. Videtur 
esto 
WCALIFORNIA. Mount Shasta, alt. 2,500 m., H. E. Brown, 
n. 424, - [3281] 
