— 9} — 
Additional Geography: : 
Africa Trop.; late sparsa — Senegal; Heudelot n. 556. Niger; Barter n. 2224. 
Socotra; Balfour n. 389. Loanda; Welwitsch n. 7107. Usambara; Holst 
nn. 2040, 2737. 
Madagascar; Hildebrandt n. 3303. 
China; frequens — Hongkong; Wilford n. 974, C. Wright n. 570. Macao; da 
Silva. Pakhoi; Playfair n. 121. Formosa; Henry n. 1084. 
Japonia; in hb. Kew. 
Malaya — Cochinchina; Lebeeuf. Java; Horsfield n. 1024, Junghuhn. 
Ins. Philippine; Jagor n. 566, Gaudichaud n. 96. 
Macassar; Zollinger n. 3985. 
Australia Galidior; frequens; R. Brown n. 5987; &e. 
Rynchospora Vahl. 
19. BR. aurea Vahl. 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 6, p. 670; C.B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 34 
[1898], p. 89. 
Additional synonymy: 
R. aurea, Beauv. FI. d’'Owar v. 2, p. 39, t. 81, fig. 2. 
R. corymbosa, Britton in Trans. New York Acad. v. 41 [1892], p. 84. 
Rhyne. aurea R. Br. Prod. Fl. Austral. p. 220; Kunth Enum. v. 2, p.293; Benth. 
Fl. Hongk. p. 39, et Fl. Austral. v. 7, p. 349; Miq. Fl. Ind. Batay. v. 3, p. 336, 
et Suppl. p. 262; Boeck in Linnaea v.37 [1873], p. 626; Vidal Pl. Vase. Filip. 
p. 285; Drake Fl. Ins. Pacifici p. 334. 
R. articulata Kunth Enum. v. 2, p. 393; Moritzi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. p.98; Steud. 
in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. heft 2, p. 61. 
Cladium occidentale, Schrad. Fl. Germ. v. 1, p. 76 in Obs.: non Nees. 
Chaetospora aurea, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v.1, p. 931. 
A common tropical weed, both in the Old and New World; not 
specially maritime, but widely scattered. 
Klong Son, in a waterhole. 
Additional Geography: 
Africa Trop.; sat vulgaris —- Senegambia; Heudelot nn. 343, 687. Soudan; 
Schweinfurth nn. 1360, 3495. Angola; Welwitsch nn. 6844, 6845. Zanzibar; 
Hildebrandt n. 1282 &c. &c. 
Natal; herb. Schinz. 
Mascarenia; Bojer, Bory, &c. 
China — Hongkong; Harland. Hainan; Henry n. 8551. Formosa; Henry n, 1843. 
Malaya; sat freqnens — Cochinchina; Germain nn. 111, 112. Tonkin; Balansa 
n. 2779. Sumatra; Beccari n. 851. Java; Zollinger n. 270, Kurz n. 1864; Borneo; 
Motley nn. 310, 1299; &c. 
Ins. Philippine; Guming n. 1763. 
Australia; Sir J. Banks; &c. 
Polynesia; vulgaris — New-Caledonia; Vieillard n. 1441. Tahiti; Forster n. 266. 
America Centralis cum West Indies; frequens. 
America Australis Tropica; vulgaris. 
America Australis Temperata; usque ad Buenos Ayres. 
