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Margin 

 Margin 



n< Itlh mil . 



S full inln.sii. 

 S. hit i folia. 



HM. n;:;i 



Stems erecl . ligule <<\ ate or Bhort 



Panicles all composed o! both pistillate and stai 

 Bpikelets. 



Nu! .11 length chestnut, red, ••!• decolored 



Nui white, depressed at apex 8 S. pi 



Upper part of panicle staminate, lower pari pistillate I s acteata. 



I disk 'ilia!-: iall perennial Ophrtosclbrla 



f disk laciniate; leaves I cm. wide Schizolbpis ii 8 



1 Scleria dist.uis P •■ Rncyr 7: I 1806. 



neUa Griseb Oat. 1M Cub. 249. 1866, in part, not Kunih 

 Distribi n<)\ Wesl [ndies, I iosta Rica. 

 < osri IIm \\ Mm n pion: San Jose', altitude I. loo meters, Pittier 648. 



2 Scleria liebmanni Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 2: L79. L865. 



la costaricensis Boeckl. Allgem. Bot. Zeitschr. 2: L57. L896. 

 Distribi pion: Dispersed from Mexico to Brazil. 

 Costa Rican collections: Boruca, altitude 150 meters, Tondx 

 :'.. Scleria hirtella Sw. Prod. Veg. [nd. Occ. 19. 1788. 

 s, I, in nutans Kunth, Bnum. 2: :'>•">■_'. 1837. 

 Distribi pion: Africa, including Madagascar; also in 

 common. 



* 0STA RlCAN COLLEi HON: Guanaca.-t »■. 1'itt'u r 2S00. 

 I. Scleria lithosperma L.) Sw. Prod. Veg. End. Occ. 



pus Htlins/H nuns I.. Sp. PI. 1: 51. I7">:;. 



Scleria tenuis Retz. <>l>s. 4: L3. L786. 



Scleria filiformisSw. Prod. v.--. [nd. Ore L9. L788. 



Schoenus lithospermus L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 1: 65. L762, in small pan 



DiSTRIBl PION: In warm countries all around the world nearly: 

 \-ui. Oceania, and America rather common. 



» ost \ Rican « ollection: < ruanacaste, altitude 250 meters, Pittier '1, 

 •"). Scleria lacustris <'. \Yri<dit in Sauv. PI. Cub. L85. ls?:i. 



Scleria tonduzii Boeckl. AUgem. Bot. Zeitschr. 2: L60. Lfi 



Distribution: Cuba, French Guiana, Brazil, Costa Rica. 



Costa Rican collection: Tufa Valley, altitude 600 meters, 

 6. Scleria reflexa II. B. K. Nov. Gen. A: 8p. 1: 232. L815. 



Scleria flagellum Xees. Mora 11: 303. L828, scarcely Sw. 



Mastigoscleria reflexa Xees in Mart. PI. Bras. 2': 177. L842. 



Distribution: From Mexico to southern Brazil, frequent. 



Costa Rican collections: Tvjrialba, altitude 600 meters 

 de Osa, Tonduz L0079. 



Tonduz no. L1389 is a doubtful form spruce no. 500, collected m Para. i. <•.. Scleria 

 tenacissimal Benth. Real Scleria lenacissima, Steud.°, collected by Neee at Para. do. 

 122, has its nut reticulate-tuberculate. Put to me, a- to Bentham, the plants seem to 

 lie tin- same. 



7 Scleria melaleuca Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 6: 29. 1831. 



Distribution: Common throughout tropical America. 



I osta Rican collections: Hoffmann s 7:>: 0. Kuntze; Rodeo de Pacaca, Pittier 

 3326; Siquirres, Pittier 1207; Matina, Pittiei * * 7 17; Buenos Aires, Pittier 10635; Finca 

 ,1.- Chirrip6, altitude LOO meters, Pittier L6076; San Carlos, Tonduz 2582; Ten-aba, 

 altitude 250 meters, Tonduz 3581, 3589; Boruca, altitude 450 metere, Tonduz 4482] 

 Turrialba, altitude 550 meters, Tonduz 8230,8393; Rio Zhorquin, Tonduz S529. 



nearly all parte of America. 



L8. L788. 



rare in Africa; in 



16 



Tonduz B181. 



Tonduz 9008: Golfi 





"Syn. PI. Glum. 2: I7.'». 1855. 



