\ JO 



N I i ; 1 1 ; i 



I i:<»\l I .1 l. NATK >N \I. I1KRBAKIU M 



15 cm. lung, the uppermost pistillate at base atarainab 

 to •■ nun l< branch 



ii. long, linear-obloi inooth, 



I the length of the ' 



Ri< w !• nose: Volcin •>■ r ■- 



de Buena Vista, all itude 



Liebmann hat ! A specie b ai ion, but I ha\ p out 



tble i" unite I ifically wil I Liebmann 'a in the 



tterbariun I to I. .11. Bailey, very likf this in habit, panicle, 



and (..I,.!- of spikes, differs in that its pistil] ite glume ta l< as aristate. 



rex cladostachya Wahlenb. Kong V Nya Handl. Stockh. 24: I l!>. 



.1 - & C. B Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1 : 204. 1830. 

 B ©tt in Benth. 1M. Bartw. 96 1839 57. 

 Distribi ii"\ Prom Mexico to Bolivia, common. 



Costa Rican collections: Desamparados altitude 1,100 meters Tondut 1483; 

 M a, altitude L,350 meters, Tondui 7717; Alajuelita, 

 altitude 1,000 meters, Tondm B843; Aserrf, Tondui L247d; San Jose, altitude 1,100 

 metere, Tondui L247 ter; El Copey, altitude 2,500 meters, Tondui 12180; Poas, alti- 

 tude 2,450 metere, /' 2984; Cabeceras del Bris, Pittier 10568; Rio Birris, altitude 



1 200 metere, PittU 3126; Rio Tom-, /om/./: 1247bis; I anas Gordas, altitude 1,100 

 metere, /' 7350 028 Santa Barbara, altitude L,400 metere, Tondui 167! £] 

 Rodeo de Paquita, altitude 900 metere, Tondui 1620 



c. polystachya W'ahl.." according to A.merican authors, is represented by Pringle's 

 no. 1840 from Oaxaca, and Bourgeau's no. :'>(>'_'•' from Orizaba. Ii is a stouter plant, 

 with more rigid inflorescence and an ellipsoid or ovoid utricle; 1>ui in my opinion it 

 is scarcely distinguishable specifically. 

 6 Carex jovis < B. Clarke, Bp. nov. 



\ meter high and more; Leaves 1 cm. long, densely glandular-puberulent beneath; 

 inflorescence 50 cm. long, peduncles rigid, suberect; corymbs rigid, narrow; spikes 

 as much as 3 cm. Long, 1 mm. wide, several of them pistillate at base and staminate at 

 apex; pistillate glumes Lanceolate, Little surpassing the utricles; style 3-fid; utricle 



2 i" o in in. Long including the beak, oblong, smooth, glabrous, trigonous, striate; beak 

 about one-third as long as the body, deeply bidentate; nut oblong, trigonous. 



- \ Rn \n collection: Pittier & Tondui 10757 in the Brussels Berbarium 

 type . 



18. HYPOLYTRUM, I.. C. Rich. 



Projx-r spikelets, very Bmall, appearing as if composed of bisexual flowers in spikes 

 resembling closely the spikelets of Scirpus, imbricated on all Bides, 3-flowered; the 

 two lower flowers opposite, staminate each with onl) one Btamen, the uppermost one 

 a naked pistil, L to 4 oblong scales i. e., Bterile male glumes being interposed between 

 the two mall- flowers and the pistil; staminate glumes boat-shaped, somewhat hairy 

 on the keel, distinct or sometimes more <>r less connate; style bifid. Inflorescence 

 paniculate-corymb 



ies 12, distributed throughout almost all tropical countries; one at Nepal, one 

 in the Hawaiian Islands. 

 1. Hypolytrum nicaraguense Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Star. 2: 17. 1849. 



Hypolytrum amplum var ? >'. Nees in Man. Fl. Bras. 2': 65. 1843. 



Hypolytrum selloianum Boeckl. Linnaea37: L34. l s 7l. 



" Kongl. Vet. Akad. Nya. Handl. Stockh. 24: 149. 



1803. 



