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pubescente. Bractea ima folio caulino similis 25 em. distans; 
pedunculus 8 cm. exsertus, gracilis icae m. in diam., 
Wa purpureo-bruneae. Spiculae 1 cm. longae 2 m 
latae, 2-3-florae, sub-l-nucigerae. Stamina 3; ta rubra. 
Nux biconvexa, stipite ns ; rostrum parvum, viri- 
descens ; stylus longus, ruber 
VBRAZIL. Minas Geraes ; iow dos Cristaes, Sehwacke, n. de 
152] 
T naaa Ridleyi, sp. n.; culmo c. 6 dm. longo, mediocri 3-6- 
glumis nucigeris, ovato-lanceolatis, vix mucronatis : 
eM Os nuce late shovbidel substipitatà, transversim rugosá; rostro 
aem conico. 
Culmi per totam longitudinem nodosi, foliigeri, fere glabri. 
Folia plura, cum culmo aequilonga, 2-5 mm. lata, plana, margines 
5 "m 
versus dense pilosa. Capitula — usq a cet em. 
distantia ; ima in pedunculo 0-3 c m. longo sustenta, 12-18 mm. 
in diam., 10-30-stachya ; bracteae eum foliis consimiles, culmum 
superantes, imae vagina Spieulae sub-7-glumae, vix com- 
e vacuae,a basi spiculae sensim majores, 
ovato ellipticae, carin ferrugineo-bruneae, plus minus 
a ^ cigera paullo major, omnes 
arte glumae aequilonga, apice truncata, nigro-maculata ; ; 
Werer extimae longitadinaliter oblongae ; rostrum m cum 2 nucis 
aequilongum, cum 1 nuce vix aequitatum, viridescen 
RAZIL. Fani en Ridley. Keier 
diviso ; nuce parva obovoidea, luteo-bruneà, transversim undulata ; 
rostro cum nuce subaequilongo, anguste conico, pallido. 
Rhynchospora Selloiana, Boeck.! in Linnaea, xxxvii. (1873), 
p. 620, non R. Sellowiana, Steud, 
BRAZIL. Sello; S. Catharina, Niederlein, n. 697. [5793] 
5^ R. viridi-lutea, sp. n. ; robusta, fere glabra ; corymbis ex planas: 
mrs 3-12-nim capite llatis, viridi-luteis; s em 
superantibus, squamis 2 minutis interioribus adjectis ; HE sub- 
in iu nuce eg gee compressa, levi, pallide brunea : rostro 
eum nuce aequilonga, an 
ie a et ultra, trigoni, vix scabri. Folia pss 10-15 mm. 
nucis hee cum nuce conna p beris. 
