Prowwon.]' ott. ERtocauLEx. (J. D. Hooker.) 585 
NEPAL, Wallich. BENGAL, SILHET, the KHasrA HiLLs, and TENASSERIM, 
mno, &c. The CoNcAN, Stocks. CHOTA NaGPORE, Clarke.—DiSTRIB. trop. 
Cal annual Leaves 1-11 in., many-nerved, often recurved. Scapes striate, 
Y grooved; sheath tumid, tips membranous. Heads i-i in. diam.; invol. 
ae, carious, stellately spreading, pale, shining, often lacerate ; receptacle convex, 
wed flowers subsessile; male sepals 3, free (or 2 connate); petals minute or 
"eg ; fem. sepals rarely 3, the third capillary. Seeds much narrower than in 
Other species, linear-oblong, papillose all over, pale yellow. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
Wa fluviatile, Trim. in Journ. Bot. xxiii. (1885), 270; rootstock very 
de er, leaves scattered very slender, scape solitary, heads small depressed 
4° Invol. bracts roundish-oval brown, floral linear-oblong with coarse 
ts on the upper part, fl. dicecious? fem. sepals linear-spathulate, 
narrower membranous tipped with scanty white hairs. 
GIYLON ; Western province, in rapid stream, Trimen. . 
$- by ged except the head; rootstock flexuous; roots copious, long. Leaves 
au, about Jj in., solid, compressed, chanelled, flaccid; sheath dilated, cottony 
tin, dia Scape rather shorter than the leaves; sheath not dilated, tip acute. Head 
1 m, (receptacle ?).—Descr. from Trimen. The only specimen seen by me is in 
"ey young state, with the flowers not available for analysis. Compare E. Dalzellii. 
= CEYLANICUM, Kern. in Linnea, xxvii. 667; a foot high, stem very short, 
lage evi; In. tufted linear suddenly mucronate, scapes solitary 1 in., heads rather 
lidden et ic-globose woolly white 4 in. long, invol. bracts obovate at length 
tale werte the head, floral cuneate-obovate submembranous pale, receptacle hairy, 
cd obtuse membranous, anticous petal much largest, fem. fl. sessile, sepals 
like those of the males, petals 3 spathulate obtuse spongy anticous much 
Ceylon m far longer than the sepals.—Hairs of bracts and perianths obtuse. 
: Herb, Berlin, — Evidently near E. atratum, but leaves mucronate. 
be SURYPEPLON, Kern. Le 685; 2-3 in. high, leaves 3 in. tufted broadly 
leads saj owed upwards tip obtuse membranous, scapes crowded 4-winged 13-3 in., 
inetg ales 1i-2i1 in. broad powdery pubescent and nigro-niveous, invol. 
thombie. s powdery-pubescent olive-black much shorter than the heads, floral 
hid, Or, neate olive-black rigid closely imbricate hiding the fl., receptacle hairy.— 
e TETEROLEPIS, Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 271; Korn. l.c. 972 ; tufted, stem very 
hy, Cives lanceolate from a broad base subobtuse, hardly 1 in. long.—Bombay, 
E 
4 Ri rn, Lam. Encycl. iii.275 ; Kunth Enum, iii.; Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 268 ; 
Deet". Abyss, ii, 3472; Kærn. Le 633.—Ind. Or. Sonnerat. (Herb. 
m. Male sepals 2, free, linear-oblong.—Perhaps a form of E. truncatum, 
` more probably E. Sieboldianum. . 
ihm ang ANUM, Kern, l c. 638.— Ceylon (Herb. Berol.).—Is likened to trun- 
Very like Dien by its dimerous sepals, but the receptacle is shortly villous. 
Rents and 4; 0722 in the head, differs in the form and number of the perianth seg- 
the obtuse floral bracts, Kern. 
Order CLXXIT. CYPERACEZE. By C.B. Clarke, F.R.S. 
le S" Or rush-like herbs. Stems solid. Leaves 3-ranked, rarely 0 ; 
the we closed. Flowers 1-2-sexual, small or minute, solitary in the Kä of 
lioe "p (glumes) of the spikes or spikelets that are solitary or variously 
nen, on the stem. Perianth 0, or of hypogynous bristles or scales. 
' ~v, rarely more; anthers linear, basifixed on the flattened fila- 
