186. BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. x^ai, 



Bynchospdra gracilis Yah! ]. c; p. 234 ; Eoem. et Scliult. Syst. Veg. 

 II. (1817) p. 86 : Steud. 1. c. p. 145; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. lad. Isl. p. 574. 



Byncliospora Broiniii Eoera. et Schalt. 1. c. p. 86 ; Xees in Linn^ea 

 X. p. 185; Bce:k. in Linnfea XXXVII. p. 581. 



Bynchospora petrcea Xees ; Steud. 1. c. p. 147. 



Bijnchospora effusa Schrad. mss. ex Steud. ]. c. p. 147. 



Bynchospora chinensis Xees herb, partim, ex Boeckel. 



Chcetospora ferruginea H. B. et K. (1815); Schlecht. et Cham, in 

 Linn tea YL p.. 28. 



Bynchospora ferruginea Koem. et Schult. Syst. Yeg. II. (1817) p. 85, 

 et Add. II. p. 529; Spreng. 1. c. p. 197; Xees in Liuntea YII. p. 529. 



Gahnia ferruginea AYilld. herb, ex Schult. 



Bynchospora hrunnea AYilld. herb, ex Schlecht. et Cham, in Linntea 

 YI. (1831) p. 28. 



Bynchospora castanea Xees et Meyen herb, ex Kunth 1. c. p. 298. 



Schoenus paucifiorus Willd. lierb. ex Kunth 1. c. p. 298. 



Bynchospora lavarum Xees herb, non G-audich. ex Kunth I. c. p. 298. 



Bynchospora Thouarsii Xees in Linntea IX. (1834) p. 297. 



Bynchospora vicczensis Schult. Syst. Yeg. II. Mant. p. 46 ; Kunth 

 1. c. p. 302; Steud. 1. c. p. 147. 



Chcetospora vicozensis Schrad. ms. ex Sciiult. Syst. Yeg. II. ]\Iant. p. 46. 



Schcemi.s rugosiis Yahl ; Pers. Syn. P]. I. p. 59. 



Bynchospora juncea AYilld. herb, ex Kunth I. c. p. 298. 



Bynchospora capiUata Yahl 1. c. p. 235. 



Bynchospora rigida Schrad. herb, ex Kunth 1. c. p. 297. 



Bynchospora Icevis Schlecht. in Liuntea XX Y. (1852) p. 166. 



(PI. YII. fig. 7, a. b. c.) 



Cfespitose, gTeen, estoloniferous, attaining 86 cm. in height; rhizome veiy 

 short. Culm erect, slender, angular, very laxly foliate, scabrous above. 

 Leaves angustato-linear, much shorter than the culm, attaining 3 mm. broad, 

 trigonous and scabrous towards the acutish apex. Corymb compound, 

 rather loosely many-spiculose, terminal and axillary above, the terminal one 

 larger and attaining about 3 cm. across, the lateral ones distant and with 

 rather long peduncles: radii several, unequal, erect or erect-patent; bracts 

 leafy ; bracteoles setaceo-linear or setaceous. Spiculte oblong-ovate, acute, 

 ferrugineo-brunDeus, 3-4-flowered, 4i mm. long. Empty glumes 3-4, el- 

 liptical-ovate ; flowering ones larger and broadly ovate. Setfe 6, unequal 

 in length, shorter or slightly longer than the achene, antrorsely scabrous. 

 Stamens 3-1 ; filaments exceeding the rostrum of the mature achene. 



