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Luzon, (793 Loher) . 
Malabar Peninsula from Poona to Ceylon; also in Cochin-China. 
There is an American plant (No. 2385 Gardner) collected in Piauhy, Brazil, 
which I can not distinguish specifically from R. Wightiana. 
'** S pikelets copiously umbelled. 
3. Rynchospora aurea Vahl, Enum. 2 (1806) 229. 
Style-branches 2, very short, almost wanting. 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 670. Rhynchospora aurea R. Br. Prodr. 230; Presl, 
Rel. Haenk. 1: 179; Miq. FI. Nederl. Ind. 3: 336 et Suppl. 262; Vidal, Rev. PI. 
Vase. Filip. 285; Plianer. Cuming. Philip. 156. Rh. articulata Spreng. Syst. 1: 
197; Moritzi, Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 98; Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. heft 2, 61; 
Miq. FI. Nederl. Ind. 3: 337. Scirpus corymbosus Linn. Amoen. Acad. 4: 303. 
Philippines, ( 15 hb. Presl) . Cebu, (1763 Cuming). Mindoro, (897 Merrill). 
In the warm parts of the World, common in the Old; very common in the New 
World. 
4. Rhynchospora glauca Vahl, Enum. 2 (1806) 233. 
Style-branches 2, long. 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 671. Rhynchospora laxa R. Br. Prodr. 230; Miq. FI. 
Nederl. Ind. 3: 337. Rh. ferruginea Roem. et Sch. Syst. 2: 85; Presl, Rel. Haenk. 
1: 199. 
In all warm countries; frequent in India. 
Var. (3 Chinensis Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 672. 
Spikelets often ripening two nuts ; hypogynous bristles often reaching 
the top of the beak of the nut. 
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 259. Rhynchospora Chinensis Boeck. 
in Linnsea 37 (1873) 586. 
Luzon, Benguet, (5757 Elmer) ; Lepanto, (4623 Merrill). 
From Madagascar to Japan and the Sandwich Islands, frequent. 
13. SCHOENUS Linn. 
1. Schoenus apogon Roem. et Sch. Syst. 2 (1817) 77. 8. imberbis Poir. 
Encycl. Suppl. 2: 251, neque (homonyma) p. 250, nec. R. Br. S. laxiflorus Steud. 
! Cyp. 166. S. Brownii Hook. f. ! Handb. New Zeal. FI. 298. Ghaetospora 
imberbis R. Br. ! Prodr. 233. C. tenussima Steud. ! Cyp. 162. C. Japonica 
Franch. et Savat. PI. Japon. 2: 122, 548, e descript. G. umbellulifera Boeck. ! 
in Flora, 65 (1882) 28. Isolepis margaritifera Nees in Ann. Nat. I, 6 (1849) 46. 
Scirpus margaritifer Boeck. ! in Linnsea 36 (1869-70) 697. 
Luzon, (1347 Loher). 
From Japan to New Zealand; common in Australia. 
14. CLADIUM R. Br. 
1. Cladium distichum sp. nova. 
G-lumis 12 ad 16, oblongis, specie distichis; paniculae laxae, ramis 
anfractuoso-flexuosis ; nuce parva, sessili, obovoidea, papyracea, viridi- 
lutea, grosse laxe rugosa, rostro subnullo, i. e., brevi depresso-ovoideo, 
glabro. 
