CyperacecB.] 
CHINA. 
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volucro 4-6-phyllo, foliolis 2-4 umbella multo longioribus carinatis foliisque margine an- 
trorsum spiculoso-scabris, culmo trigono Isevi. — C. verticillatus. Roxb. FI. Ind. \. p. 206; 
{ed Wall.) 1. p. 209; in Cat. Merc. Ind. or. Mus. tab. 1319. (baud N. ab. E. in Wights 
Contrib. p. 87.) — C. digitatus. N. ab E. 1. c. p. 85 ? (non Roxb.) 
Hab. Danes Island, 1828; G. H. Vachell, n. 73. c. 
Spicoi f-1;^ unciam longae, pennse anserinse minoris crassitie. SpiculcB lineam longse. Squamarum ner- 
vus carinalis viridis basin versus tenuis sursum validior et latior, denique in mucronem etiaraque virideni 
rectum vel patulum validum procurrens. Squama duse inferiores minores et steriles. 
We have given the above character, in order that it may be compared with that of G. digitatus, traced 
by Nees Von Esenbeck, 1. c. (where the leaves and involucres are said, by a typographical error, to be 
“ margine rubris,” instead of “ margine scabris,”): and the two will be found scarcely to differ. Nees Von 
Esenbeck, in his MS. remarks of this plant, “ distinguitur inter confines spicis in radiis umbellulse 1-2-polli- 
caribus quinis senis septenisve, |-1 pollicem longis, 3-4 subaequalibus majoribus, reliquis minoribus, crassitie 
pennse anserinse, a basi, ubi quandoque nonnihil curvantur, densissime imbricatis, manum cum digitis suis 
bene referentibus the first part of which agrees with our one, but the latter is not so evident either in the 
specimen before us, transmitted for our inspection by Professor Henslow of Cambridge, or in Roxburgh’s 
description and figure, with which the Chinese plant agrees exactly.] 
11. [C, parviflorus. Vahl. — N. ab E. 1. c. p. 87. (cum char, et syn.) 
Hab. Macao; Millett; Vachell, n. 62. b. (ex parte.) 
Var. «. ought to have been defined, “ umbella explicata.”] 
12. C. Iria. Linn. — N. ah E. 1. c. p. 87. (cum char, et syn.) 
Hab. Macao; Millett; Vachell, n. 62. b. (ex parte.) 
13. C. difformis. Linn. — N. ah E. 1. c. p. 88. (cum char, et syn.) 
14. C. distans. Linn. — N. ab E. 1. c. p. 88. (cum char, et syn.) 
Hab. Circa Macao urbem ; G. H. Vachell, “ g .” (ex parte.) 
Vera Iriarum socia, spiculis angustis, squamisque alternatim dispositis, dorso viridibus, laeviter quinque- 
nervibus obtusissimis cum vel sine mucronulo, margine albido membranaceis caryopsin sequantibus bene dis- 
tincta. Stamina 3. Involucella 3-4-phylla, lineari-setacea, umbellam sequantia. 
2. MARISCUS. Link. N. ab E. I c. 
1. M. cyperinns. Vahl. — N. ab E. 1. c. p. 90. (cum char, et syn.) — Vachell, n. 73. a. 
SpiculcE vix linea aut sesquialtera longiores, lineari-subulatse, e 4 vel 5 squamis exstructse, quarum inferior 
patula, lanceolato-subulata, spicula triplo brevior, secunda ovata, obtusa, hac autem sterilis; turn tertia ex- 
teriorque major ovato-lanceolata primo in subulam convoluta, dein obtuse carinata, margine alba, dorso 
viridis, trinervis, amplectens in spicula uniflora alterum flosculum minorem angustioremque et sterilem, in 
bifloris quarta sequitur squama, tertiae conformis eademque fertilis, longior. Stamina tria, valvula lon- 
giora. Stylus ad medium trifidus. Caryopsis oblonga, obtuse trigona, Isevis. Structura spiculse in uni- 
floris omnino Kyllingice, nullseque adsunt rhacheos alse valvulares hse autem in bifloris adsunt distinctissimae, 
apice liberae. Turn vero inflorescentia, valvulae convolutae nec carinatae, stigmata tria et caryopsis trigona 
Mariscorum. Folia culmo plerumque breviora sunt, uti et in icone Rheediana. (Hort. Mai. 12. t. 63.) In- 
volucrum 3-6-phyllum, foliolis plerisque umbellam excedentibus. Spicula adultae et fructiferae patentes et 
subreflexae. Color foliorum glaucus. 
