XglLLoilJfcta, and by Hem ley m Valeria x*£&iailiaj& Euhl. 
5. Sclerie. purdiei 0, B, Clarke, Ee-.v Bull. Add. Ser. 6: 5?. 1006, 
Spley le Mtcb eo oMl Standi* Contr. tJ. S- Mat, Herb* 18$ 86. 
1016 . 
Panama (hi Boquete, on grassy hillside, alt. 1,000 asters). 
Colombia and Venezuela; type from Oolo hia. 
Plante slender, 60 to 70 ora. high; leaves 12 to 18 ora. long, 
2 to 4 ram, wide, nearly glabrous; panicles about 10 on. long, 
the branches very slender; spikelets sessile in sjna.ll dense 
clusters; aohsne globose, 1*2 r.n* in dimeter, white, glabrous, 
the disk fused with the aohene as s short stipe. 
4, Solaria lithoeperm (I.) Swartz, Prodr* Veg. Xnd. Oco* 18. 
1788. 
Istoiis. littfspej imm. J*. Sp. pi. si* 1753. 
Costa Hi on; Panama; in racint ©oil, ascending to about 1,000 
meters. Tropical regions of both hemispheres; type fro® India* 
Plants glabrous or nearly so, with stout rootstock”, the 
culms 30 to CO cm. long; leaves 10 to 30 cm. lor;-', 3 to 6 raw, 
wide; panicles sparsely branched, the epifcelets in distant 
sessile clusters; aohenee smooth, white, glabrous, the disk fused 
with the base and nearly obsolete, 
5* Solaris paniooides Eunth* Snum. PI* 2s 346, 1837* 
Panama (Empire Station, Hero lev )* South America; type from 
Brazil, 
Culms 30 to JO ora# high, scabrous on the angles ; leaves about 
