braeteate, purplish or oaetanecus; mb®m smooth t white, sub- 
globose, the die! subentire, •H&vajuela* (Costs Hioa). 
V 
14. Solaris laouotris C. ’'fright in M*U* t IX* Cub. 186. 1C73, 
Bslerir tondu slj Boeehel. Allgein. Bot, Zeiteohr. t; 160, 
1896, 
; vL \ 
Cuba- (tyv© locality). 
Plants large and coarse, nearly glabrous; leaves 60 err. 
long and 11 ms. wide or swaller, the sheaths winged; w doles 
large, mu eh branch ad, rigid, dense, purplish; r.ehenes ?> wm 
long, white or purplish, smooth. 
It, Seleriu sotuloso-oiliata Boeokel. Flora 61,; SO. It-- 
Guatemala; type from MSsatett^ngo. Chiapas. 
i |0 "tout, 0.5 to 1 meter high, tufted; leaves about 1 
ok. wide, scabrous on the margins, the sheaths narrowly winged; 
panicles small, dense, with wt tv; «; in, 
smooth, whitish. 
16. Scleria pterota Presl in 0 h : hi; 568. II 
Scleria praten sis Mees in t» dd» hv: t V- 179* 1643. 
Scleria nittieri Eoeokel. AU;;c3 , Bot. Zeitsohr, 159. 
1896. 
Guatemala; Costa Hica; Panama; .£? fronts and t'joints, ajt ^ 
500 meters or less. Mexico, West In diet, own South * verier-. 
Plants with short rhizomes, 30 to CO ov * hi*/’-, miter stout 
nearly glabrous; leaves 30 cm. long - ml 1 oh-:* wide ex titeller; 
panicles axillary, small, sparsely br • nohed, green or brownish, 
