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scaberula, apice filiformia. Scapi 50 cm. longi. Spieae 

 5-6, suprema mascula, ceteris foemineis approximatis, 5-6 

 cm. longae, cylindricae ; foemineae fructu 7-9 mm. latae ; 

 bracteae foliaceae ; vaginae 2-3 cm. longae ; pedunculi 

 robusti, erecti, inferioribus ad 10 cm. longis, superioribuB 

 brevior ibus. Gluma f oeminea oblongo-ovata, cum nervo unico 

 excurrente laminae aequilongo 4-6 mm. longa. Utriculus 

 ovatus, in rostrum brerem gradatim angustatus, 6 mm. 

 longus, omnino glaber, pallidus, striatus, paucinervis, rostro 

 breviter bidentato. Nux ovatus, acuminatus, uno latere 

 intrusus, apice explanatus, breviter stipitatus, utriculum 

 fere implens. Styli 3. 

 On the banks of streams at the foot of the Phoenix Mountain. 

 Dunn's Han Expedition, Herb. Hongk. n. 6231. FI. 

 March. 



12. C. maculata, Boott ; C. B. Clarke 1. c. 735. Swamps on the 



White Cloud hills, Canton. Fl. April. 



13. C. phaeota, Spreng. ; C. B. Clarke 1. c. 708.' Banks of the 



Han River, Swatow ; Canton. Fl. April. 



14. C. pruinosa, Boott ; C. B. Clarke 1. c. 709. Mt. Kellet, Hong- 



kong ; hills near Chaochaufu. Fl. AprU. 



15. C. ligata, Boott in Benth. 1. c. 402. Mt. Gough, Mt. Kellet, 



and Victoria Peak, Hongkong. Fl. spring. 



16. C. nexa, Boott in Benth. 1. c. 402. Mt. Grough, Mt. Victoria 



and Happy Valley, Hongkong ; Chaochaufu, Swatow 

 district. Fl. April. 



17. C. manca, 5oo« in Benth. I.e. 402. Hongkong without locality ; 



Taimoshan, Hongkong New Territory. Fl. February. 



18. C. Harlandi, Boolt ; Benth. 1. c. 403. In the woods behind the 



Buddhist Temple, Causeway Bay, in a ravine at West 

 Point, Mt. Gough, and on Mt. Nicholson, Hongkong ; 

 Taimoshan at 1500 ft. Hongkong New Territory. Fl, 

 February — April. 



19. C. tristachya, Thunb. ; Kiikenth. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Cyper.- 



Caric. 471. Chaochaufu, Swatow District; Whampoa ; 

 Canton. Fl. April. 



20. C. tenebrosa, Boott ; Benth. 1. c. 402. In the Happy Valley 



woods and Victoria Peak, Hongkong; Castle Peak, 

 Hongkong New Territory. Fl. Winter. 



21. C. graciliflora, Dumi in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 372. Stream 



on the slopes of the Phoenix Mt., Swatow. Fl. April. 



22. C.cryptostachys, 5?-o?i^;;. ; Benth. 1. c. 403. Hongkong without 



locality ; Taimoshan, Hongkong New Territory. Fl. 

 February — April. 



23. C. brunnea, Thunb. ; Clarke 1. c. 705. On the dry, bushy 



banks above the road south of Magazine Gap, Hongkong. 

 Fl. July to August. 



24. C. longipes, D. Don ; Clarke 1. c. 704. Happy Valley, Hong^ 



kong. Fl, , 



