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faasi tmBcata breviter stjpitata tereu v< oUolete trigoua^ uiii^ 

 boBolata dense cancdlato-reticulata, ilineis eubnudolati^, glabra 

 albida subopaca; perigynio interiore albido profunde trilobo 

 leriter adpresso^ lobis lanceolatis breviacnmiBatis; exteriore 

 discrete Irilobo rigidi^, lobis saborbicxilatis obtnsissimis, rf^- 

 $eo purpureO'Otris^ margine cartilagtneo angusto pallide 

 ferrugineo circumdAlis. — Sub : ,,S. tessellata Nees^^ in 

 Herb. Ind. or* Book, et Thomson. Malabar, Concan (Stocks^ 

 Law etc.) 



42« S. Stendelfana Miq* 



Intense Tiridis; perfecte glabra; caespitosa; radicc fibrosa 



tenni; cnlmis nnmerosis erectis snlbinfirmJs tennibiis tenerri- 



misqne foliosis 10^ — 13 poll, altis triqnetris; foliis mem* 



branaceis latinscnlis perfectc planis supeme breviter angn* 



statis obinsinscniis, marginibiis nervii^qne siibtus sermlatis, 

 S^/2 — 1 lin. latis; ligula breTissiiua rotnndato-obtusa angnste 



membrauacco^marginata sabglabra; -spicis 4 — 3 solitwiis 

 distantibus lajris paiiciramogis, terminali 1 — 1^/^ poll, longa 

 bractea sna perangusta langiorey lateralibus peduncniatis 

 ^/4 — 1 poll, longis qnam bracteae brerioribus ; (jednnenlis 

 setaceis erectis ^f^ — 1 poll, longisj fasciculis distachyis 

 remotioscnlrs bracfeis setaceis snbaeqiiilongis; spicuUs paryis 

 stramineo -* pnrpiirascentibns, foemineis mascniis associatis, 

 omnibus pedicellatiSj mascnliB aignste linearibns compressis 

 pancifioris sesquUineam longis ; squamis membranaceis, 

 foemineis Othiculaio ^lanceolaiis e carina prominente riridi 

 mucroiiatis; carjopsi parva ej^aete glabosa rix brevissime 

 stipitata^ mucrone tenui atro f« fusco terminafa subiiHier 

 reti'eulafa, v. tota albida t. vertice atropiirpnrea^ opaca, 

 Uneolis trunsversalibus flavido- v. purpureo-kirtulis; peri- 

 gyuio interiore figido adpresso lutescenie profunde trihho^ 



