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Additional Geography: 

 Africa Trop.; late sparsa — Senegal; Heudelot n. 556. Niger; Baiter n,i% 



Socotra; Balfour n. 389. Loanda; Welwitsch n. 7107. Usambara; Hoist 



nn. 2040, 2737. 

 Madagascar; Hilcl ebrandt n . 3303. 



China; frequens — Hongkong; Wilford n. 274, C. Wright n. 570. Macao: da 



Silva. Pakhoi; Playfair n. 121. Formosa; Henry n. 1084. 

 Jap o ni a; in lib. Kew. 



Malaya — Gochinchina; Lebœuf. Java: Horsfield n. 1024, Junghuhn. 



Ins. Philippine; Jagor n. 566, Gaudichaud n. 96. 



Macassar; Zollinger n. 3285. 

 Australia Calidior; frequens; R. Brown n. 5987; &c. 



Rynchospora Vahl. 

 19. R. aurea Vahl. 



Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. G, p. 670; G. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 34 

 [1898], p. 89. 



Additional synony m y : 

 R. aurea, Beauv. Fl. d'OWar v. % p. 39, t. 81, fig. 2. 

 R. corymbosa, Britton in Trans. New York Acad. v. 41 [1892], p. 84. 

 Rhync. 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. Batav. 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. % p. 393: Moritzi Yerz. Zoll. Pfl. p. 98: Steud. 



in Zoll. Yerz. Ind. Archip. heft 2, p. 61. 

 Cladimn occidentale, Schrad. Fl. Germ. v. 1, p. 76 in Obs.: non Nees. 

 ChaetosjJora aurea, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. 1, p. 231. 



A common tropical weed, both in the Old and New World; not 

 specially maritime, but widely scattered. 



Klong Son, in a waterhole. 

 Additional G e o gra p h y : 

 Africa Trop. ; sat vulgaris — Senegambia; Heudelot nn. 343, 687. Soudan; 

 Schweinfurth nn. 1360, 3495. Angola: Welwitsch nn. 6844, 6845. Zanzibar; 

 Hildebrandt n. 1232 &c. &c. 

 Natal; herb. Schinz. 

 Ma s c are ni a; Bojer, Bory, &c. 



China — Hongkong; Harland. Hainan; Henry n. 8551. Formosa; Henry n. 1843. 

 Malaya; sat freqnens — Gochinchina; Germain nn. Ill, 112. Tonkin; Balansa 



n.2779. Sumatra; Beccari n. 851. Java; Zollinger n. 270, Kurz n. 1864: Borneo: 



Motley nn. 310, 1299; &c. 



Ins. Philippine; Cuming n. 1763. 

 Australia; Sir J. Banks; &c. 



Polynesia; vulgaris — New-Caledonia; Vieillard n. 1441. Tahiti: Forster n. 2(56. 



America Centralis cum West Indies; frequens. 



America Austral is Tropica; vulgaris. 



America Australis Tempe rata; usque ad Buenos Ay res. 



