carinatæ, imbricatæ, ovatæ, obt cronulo parvo a reliquo margine sæpe sinulo discreto, carina viridi
trinervi, lateribus litura oblonga purpurascenti-bruimea notatis, maig'inc membranaceo pallido. Stamina 8.
Antheræ lineares, fulvæ, apice albo-barbatte. Stylus ad medium trifidus. Caryopsis parva, trigono-sub-
rotunda, subtiliter punctulata, candida, mutica.
7. C . h e x a sta c h yu s. R o tib .— N . ab E . l. c. p . 8 1 . (c um c h a r, e t sy n .)
H a b . yLa.Cd.o-, Millett: Vachell, n. 1 \. et “f . ”
8. C. ìnargine llus. N . ab E . l. c. p . 8 3 . (c um c h a r.)
H a b . Ad Macao et in vicinis insulis; G. H. Vachell, ». 68.
R a d ix fibrosa, fibris flexuosis spongiosis. Stolones flexuosi, squamati, horizontales. Folia radicalia vaginis
membranaceis laxis instructa. Culmi ad basin vagina membranacea acumine lanceolato aphylla rufa, turn folium
alterum, vagina longa triquetra, e rhizomate oriente, lamina 2 - 2 4 lin. lata, complicato-carinata glabra margine
scabra, acuminata, culmum subæquante. Culmus acute trigonus penna gallinacea crassior. Involucri
folia tria, tres fere lineas longa, plana, margine scabra, umbella longiora; quartum augustius umbellam
æquans. R a d ii umbellæ 3-4, 1-24 polliccs longi, compressi, scabri. Spica, ob spicas laterales sessiles
subcapitatas, pollicem lata, pollice brevior, e partialibus 3-4 patentissimis terminalique congestis exstructa ;
iiivollucella sub spicis et spiculis brevia, setacea. Spiculoe coufertæ, patentes, quatuor lineas longæ, lineam
VIX latæ, compressiusculæ. Squamoe imbricatæ, primum acutæ, demum obtusæ, septemnerves, e purpureo
expallidæ, dorso viridulæ, margine albo-tenuissimo. Stamina tria.
9. C . canescens. V a h l.— N . ab E . l. c. p . 8 4 . (c um c h a r, e t sy n .)
H a b . Macao; Millett. lu littore Tynon-Bay; G. H. Vachell, n. 6 1 .
Culmus pedalis, sesquipedalis, penna anserina tcnuior, strictus, trigonus, lævis, sub umbella rufescens.
Folia radicalia, culmum æquantia, linearia, rigidula, 2-24 lineas lata, glauca, glabra, margine serrulato-
scabra. Vaginoe membranaceæ, fusco-purpureæ. Involucri foliola 6-7, foliolorum forma, pleraque et corum
longitudine, interiora minora ; inferius quandoque ab umbella remotius. Ochreæ laxæ, oblique truncate
eoque acuminatæ, nec dentatæ aut foliaceo-appendiculatæ. R a d ii 6-8, in aliis pleriquo 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
paucìs divarieatis earumque infimis longioribus fere pollicaribus, basi sæpe compositis, tunc una et altera
superiora versus multo brevior, ipso apice simpliciter spicato, unde figura inflorescentiæ brevem pyramidem
refert. Spiculoe approximate nec imbricate, recto ángulo patentes, subdistichæ, sessiles, 3 lin. longæ, | lin.
latæ, ex oblongo lanceolatæ, acutiusculæ, modice compressæ, utrinque convexæ, 8-9-floræ, squamis arete imbricatis
ovatis obtuse mucronatis crassiuscule chartaceis griseo-fuscis margme angusto pallidiore, nervis
iiovem prominulis obtusis divisis ponctulatisque. 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 . v e rtic illa tu s ; um b e lla com p o sita clecompositave p lu rira d ia ta , ra d iis compre sso-
t riq u e tris stric tis a p ic e um b e lla tis e spicis 3 -8 se s silib u s p a u llo inæ q u a lib u s p a tu lis cy lin d
ra c e is a b asi d ensissime im b ric a tis e t q u a n d o q u e ra d io lo c e n tra li o ligosta chyo, spiculis
lan c eo la tis v a ld e compre ssis d en se sp ira lite r in ra c h i in se rtis eb ra c te o la tis 6 -1 4-floris, squamis
o v a tis ob tu sis m u c ro n a tis flavidis d o rso ti’inervibu.s n e rv o c a rin a li v irid i, s ty lo trifid o , c a ry -
opsi ov ali t r iq u e tr a lævi p a llid a , involucellis su b d ip h y llis um b e llu la p a u llo b re v io rib u s, in -
volucro 4-6-phyllo, foliolis 2-4 umbella multo longioribus carinatis foliisque margine au-
trorsum spiculoso-scabris, culmo trigono lævi.— C. verticillatus. Roxh. F l. In d . 1. p . 200 ;
{ed Wall.) 1. p . 2 0 9 ; in Cat. Merc. Ind. or. Mus. tab. 1319. (haud N . ab. E . in Wight's
Contrib. p. 87.)— C. digitatus. N . ab E . I. c. p . 85 f (non Roxb.)
H a b . Danes Island, 1828; G. H. VacheU, ». 73. c.
Spicoe |- I j unciam longæ, pennæ anserinæ minons crassitie. Spiculoe lineam longæ. Squamarum ner-
vus carinalis viridis basin versus tenuis sursum validior et latior, denique in mucronem etiamque viridein
rectum vel patulum validum prociirrens. Squamoe duæ inferiores minores et stériles.
We bave given the above character, in order that it may be compared with that of C. 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 umbellulæ 1-2-polli-
caribus quiñis senis septenisve, |-1 pollicem longis, 3-4 subæqualibus majoribus, reliquis minoribus, crassitie
pennæ anserinæ, 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. ah E . I. c. p . 87. (cum char, e t syn.)
H a b . Macao; Millett; Vachell, n. 62. h. (ex parte.)
Var. 05. ought to have been defined, “ umbella explicata.”]
12. C. Iria . L in n .—N . ah E . I. c. p . 87. (cum char, e t syn.)
H a b . Macao; Millett; Vachell, n. 62. b. (ex parte.)
13. C. difformis. L in n .—N . ab E . I. c. p . 88. (cum char, et syn.)
14. C. distans. L in n .— N. ab E . I. c .p . 88. (cum char, et syn.)
Had. Circa Macao urfaem; G. H. Vachell, “ g .” (ex parte.)
Vera Iriarum socia, spiculis angustis, squamisque alternatim dispositis, dorso viridibus, læviter quinque-
nervibus obtusissimis cum vel sine mucronulo, margine albido membranaceis caryopsin æquantibus bene distincta.
Stamina 3. Involucella 3-4-phylla, lineari-setacea, umbellam æquantia.
2. MARISCUS. Link. N. ab E . I c.
1. M. cyperinus. V a h l.~ N . ab E . I. c. p . 90. (cum char, e t syn.)— Vachell, n. 73. a.
Spiculoe vix linea aut sesquiáltera longiores, lineari-subulatæ, e 4 vel 5 squamis exstructoe, quarum inferior
patula, lanceolato-subulata, spicula triplo brevior, secunda ovata, obtusa, hac autcm stcrilis; turn tertia ex-
teriorquc major ovato-lanceolata primo in subulam convoluta, dein obtuse carinata, margine alba, dorso
viridis, trinervis, amplcctens in spicula uniflora alterum flosculum minorem angustioremque et sterilem, in
bifloris quarta sequitur squama, tertiæ conformls eaderaque fertilis, longior. Stamina tna, valvula longiora.
.Sfy/as ad medium trifidus. Caryopszs oblonga, obtuse trigona, lævis. Structura spiculæ m unifloris
omnino Kyllingioe, nullæque adsunt rhacheos alæ valvulares liæ autem in bifloris adsunt distinctisMmæ,
apice liberæ. Turn vero inflorescentia, valvulæ convolute nec carinatæ, stigmata tria et caryopsis trigona
Mariscoi-um. Folia culmo plerumque breviora sunt, uti et in icone Rheediana. (Hort. Mal. 12. t. 63.) Involucrum
3-6-phyllum, foliolis plerisque umbellam excedentibus. Spiculoe adultæ et fructiferoe patentes et
subreflexoe. Color foliorum glaucus.