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CHINA. 
[CyperacecB. 
carinatse, imbricatse, ovatae, obtusas, mucronulo parvo a reliquo margine saepe sinulo discrete, carina viridi 
trinervi, lateribus litura oblonga purpurascenti-bruiinea notatis, margine membranaceo pallido. Stamina 3. 
Antherce lineares, fulvae, apice albo-barbatae. Stylus ad medium trifidus. Caryopsis parva, trigono-sub- 
rotunda, subtiliter punctulata, Candida, mutica. 
7. C. hexastachyus. Rottb. — N, ab E. 1. c. p. 81. (cutn char, et syn.) 
Hab. Macao; Millett; Vachell,n. l\.et“f.” 
8. C. marginellus. N. ab E. 1. c. p. 83. (cum char.) 
Hab. Ad Macao et in vicinis insulis; G. H. Vachell, n. 68. 
Radix fibrosa, fibris flexuosis spongiosis. Stolones tiexuosi, squamati, horizontales. Folia radicalia vaginis 
membranaceis laxis instructa. Culmi ad basin vagina raembranacea acumine lanceolate aphylla rufa, turn folium 
alterum, vagina longa triquetra, e rhizomate oriente, lamina 2-2|- lin. lata, complicato-carinata glabra mar- 
gine scabra, acuminata, culmum subsequante. Culmus acute trigonus penna gallinacea crassior. Involucri 
folia tria, tres fere lineas longa, plana, margine scabra, umbella longiora; quartum angustius umbellam 
aequans. Radii umbelloe 3-4, 1-2|- pollices longi, compressi, scabri. Spica, ob spicas laterales sessiles 
subcapitatas, pollicem lata, pollice brevior, e partialibus 3-4 patentissimis terminalique congestis exstructa ; 
invollucella sub spicis et spiculis brevia, setacea. Spicula confertse, patentes, quatuor lineas longse, lineam 
vix latse, compressiusculse. SquamcB imbricatae, primum acutae, demum obtusae, septemnerves, e purpureo 
expallidae, dorso viridulae, margine albo-tenuissimo. Stamina tria. 
9. C. canescens. Valil. — IE. ab E. 1. c. p. 84. (cum char, et syn.) 
Hab. Macao; Millett. In littore Tynon-Bay; G. H. Vachell, n. 67. 
Culmus pedalis, sesquipedalis, penna anserina tenuior, strictus, trigonus, laevis, sub umbella rufescens. 
Folia radicalia, culmum aequantia, linearia, rigidula, 2-2^ lineas lata, glauca, glabra, margine serrulato- 
scabra. Vaginae membranaceae, fusco-purpurem. Involucri foliola 6-7, foliolorum forma, pleraque et eorum 
longitudine, interiora minora ; inferius quandoque ab umbella remotius. Ochrece laxae, oblique truncates 
eoque acuminatae, nec dentatae aut foliaceo-appendiculatae. Radii 6-8, in aliis plerique abbreviati, et ideo 
umbella subcontracta, in aliis 1-2 pollices longi, divaricati, trigoni, centralibus solis abbreviatis. Involucella 
nulla. In singulo radio inflorescentia composito-vel decomposito-spicata, late pyramidalis, spicis partialibus 
paucis divaricatis earumque infimis longioribus fere pollicaribus, basi saepe compositis, tunc una et altera 
superiora versus multo brevior, ipso apice simpliciter spicato, unde figura inflorescentiae brevem pyramidem 
refert. Spicula approximatae nec imbricatae, recto angulo patentes, subdistichm, sessiles, 3 lin. longae, f lin. 
latae, ex oblongo lanceolatae, acutiusculae, modice compressae, utrinque convexae, 8-9-florae, squamis arete im- 
bricatis ovatis obtuse mucronatis crassiuscule chartaceis griseo-fuscis margine angusto pallidiore, nervis 
novem prominulis obtusis divisis punctulatisque. Rhachilla utrinque ad latus alata. Stamina tria. Stylus 
ad medium bifidus, altero ramo bifido. Caryopsis obovato-triquetra, lateribus depressis, mucronata, basi 
contracta, punctulis minimis prominulis subseriatis exasperata, nigro-fusca, nitidula, squama sua duplo 
brevior. 
[From the above description, assisted by specimens from Dr. Wight, and determined by Professor Nees 
Von Esenbeck, we are now inclined to refer here our C. caricifolius, from the Sandwich Islands, supr. p. 99.] 
10. [C. verticillatus ; umbella composita decompositave pluriradiata, radiis compresso- 
triquetris strictis apice umbellatis e spicis 3-8 sessilibus paullo inaequalibus patulis cylin- 
draceis a basi densissime imbricatis et quandoque radiolo centrali oligostachyo, spiculis 
lanceolatis valde compressis dense spiraliter in rachi insertis ebracteolatis 6-14-floris, squamis 
ovatis obtusis mucronatis flavidis dorso trinervibus nervo carinali viridi, stylo trifido, cary- 
opsi ovali triquetra Itevi pallida, involucellis subdiphyllis umbellula paullo brevioribus, in- 
