32 
€ AFRICA. Matabeleland, Miss Gibbs, n. 125. [5441] 
wA Dichromena arrage. C. B. Clarke; Rhynchospora mono- 
stachya, Boeck, !, in mde Bot. Zeitschr. ii. (1896), p. 78. [5564] 
d $ i 
54/4 D. minarum. .; humilis undique (nisi culmi) vote tel 
albieanti ce 
3 
aru 
bracteis longis vir ridi bus, basi nee dilatis neque a 
parvulá obovoideà, pallida transversim undulata; rostro triangulari, 
brunescente, cum } parte nucis aequilongo. 
Stolones nulli. Culmi eMe pip 4-6 em. longi, fere glabri. 
ar mm. lata, conspicue ciliato- 
pilosa. Tenga 5-7 mm. in SCHER fusce straminea ; bracteae mang 
d m. longae, ima suberecta. Spiculae parvae, 1-nucigerae ; 
pi T g Sint vo aa aristatae, in parte superiore patule Oho 
pilosae. Nux oblongo-stipitata, paullo compressa ; styli rami a me 
VBRAZIL. Minas Geraes, Glaziou, n. 20043 , Itacolumi, Riedel, 
n. 429; Serra da Lapa, Riedel, n. 95 9. [5600] 
bo SD, gracilis, sp. n.; annua, glabra, culmis 1-35 dm. longis, 
gracilibus : bracteis LA cm. lon ngis, mane a basi paullo dilatatis, 
YA non eiliatis; spieulis in capite 3-5, parvis, niveis; nuce 
non v 
Fo nk Eos eum eulmo aequilonga, 1 mm. lata, ex imis pauca 
elongata 3 mm. lata. Spiculae florigerae ine mm . longae, 3- pagawa 
Stylus longus pr aspero ramis 2 longis linearibus.—Culm 
s parvis D. pu pon Siliatao, ës Ges : 
folia (praeter is) di ultum angustiora.—Differt a D. Gr isebachii 
glabritie, bracteis longioribus, leticia niveis, 
v BRAZIL. S. Catharina, Riedel; Blumenau, Ule, n. 964. [5602] 
502 t D. floridensis, sp. fere glabra, radicibus copiose fibrosis; 
4 
e gia 
culmis 3 dm. longis, sa Napa Ap foliis 15-20 em. longis, setaceis ; 
spicis 5-9, albidis ; bracteis 4-7 cm. longis, setaceis, basi dilatatis ; 
nuce parva ni retiu gosá. 
nigrá, arctius transversim ru 
Stolones nulli visi. Culmi basi paullo sni gei ee 
culati. Bracteae basi vix Wed Wo pilosulae, namo 
albidae. Spieulae cinnamomeo-a EE —Species D. uno 
similis, ob folia setacea divergen 
“NORTH AMERICA. a Sanam Grove, Small & Nash, 
n. 181 [5603] 
46 E heterocaulis, sp. n. 1-3 dm. longo, modo 
art 
e Superiore fo sige mopa: capite sub- 
globosa, denso bruneo ; bracteis capita superantibus, fere glabris ; 
nuce obovoideá, levi, minute transversim n pallide 
brunea ; been conico-lineari quam nux longior 
Stolones robustiores, a squamis ka MAAN lentis striatis 
stramineis intecti, in rhizo mata horizontalia lignescentia indurati. 
Culmi mediocres striati, glabri modo (in exemplis quam Selluwi 
r 
i, 
totam longitudinem remote nodosi a vaginis longi iusculis foliati. 
Folia plura, cum 4-3 parte culmi aequilonga, 3 mm. lata, sub- 
plana, curvata, in margine saltem saepe ciliato-pilosa. Bracteae 1-3, 
