654 CLXXIL OYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Scirpus 
one in each spikelet) plane-convex lanceolate-obovoid smooth pale. S. con- 
fervoides, Poir. Encyc. vi. 755 (non Boeck.); Kunth Enum., ii. 173 partly E at. 
deseript. not the diagnosis). Eleocharis? confervoides, Mig. Fl. Ind. 7L 
iii. 303. Rynchospora ruppioides, Benth. (Rhyncospora) in Hook. le. D 
xiv. 31, t. 1844; Trimen Cat. Ceylon Pl. 103 and in Journ. Bot. xxiv. td 
Websteria limnophila, S. H. Wright in Bull. Torrey Club, xiv. [1887] 18. 
CEYLON; Thwaites (C.P. 3936); Colombo, Beckett.—D1srRrB. Sporadic, 
tropical. . . . 
Floating. Stems 10-20 in. Leaves 2-4 in., clustered, capillary. Spikelet 4 ie 
oblong-lanceolate. Glumes two lowest concave, elliptic-oblong, thin, enclosing the 
spikelet ; upper glumes smaller, male or sterile, sometimes 0; lowest glume empty, 
the next supporting a perfect nut-bearing flower. Bristles setaceous, an 
scabrous, straw-colrd. Nut half as long as its glume, itself style and style- 
exactly as in S. fluitans, but much larger. 
3. S. pauciflorus, Lightf. Fl. Scot. 1078; leafless, spikelet quae 
terminal few-fld., bristles 6—3, style 3-fid, nut trigonous oboroid, — 
pale or somewhat brown; Reichd. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 38, t. 299; ER l 
Linnma, xxxvi. 479. S. Beothryon, Ehrh. PAytoph. n. 31; Linn. f. Supp 
103. 
West TIBET; Thomson. KASHMIR; alt. 8000 ft., C. B. Clarke.—D18TBIP. 
N. temp. and cold regions. 
Roots fibrous, but stolons sometimes added. Stems 2-10 in., leafy only near bat 
erect, clustered; uppermost sheath truncate, often marked by. a brown tran pout 
line, sometimes apiculate on one side. Spikelet 4—4 in., subebracteate, bearing. ut, 
5 nuts. Glwmes ovate, obtuse, dusky chestnut. Bristles about as long D e 
retrorse-scabrous, straw-colrd. Wut as long as 2 the glume; style-base "ithering 
pyramidal continuous with nut ; outermost cells of nut small, subhexagonal, We 
(i.e. nut smooth, lead-colrd., smooth or minutely reticulate, white-veiled). 
4. S. pumilus, Vahl Enum. ii. 243; leaves very short, spikelet Aring 
terminal few-fld., bristles 0, style 3-fid, nut trigonous obovoid giis t 
black. S. alpinus, Schleich. Cat. 1821; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. Week A 
900; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 480; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 378. S. cæ Piso- 
sus, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 488 (the Asiat. examples and syns). Cyp- 
lepis pumila, Roem. dr Sek. Syst. ii. 106. I. oligantha, C. A. Mey 
ov. 3, t. 1. 
KasmwrR; W. Tibet, Skardo and Hanle, alt. 14,000 ft. Thomson; 
Winterbottom; Gilgit, Giles.—DisTRIB. N. temp. and cold regions. , etaceous, 
Stolons slender, becoming wiry black creeping rhizomes. Stems 2-6 in. Otherwise 
green. Leaves 4—5 in., setaceous, green, Spikelet scarcely $ in., ovoid.— Roem. 
as S. pauciflorus, Lightf., of which this species has been reckoned a var. Goo shining 
& Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. 72 in Obs.) ; ripe examples are easily recognized by t 
. rood , 
black nut. The rhizome (most commonly 0 in S. pauciflorus) is here black, W d 
though very thin. 
rais, 
u 
: 331o-sized. 
Sect. 2. Isoveris (Genus), Br. Prodr. 221. Small or miden 
Stems leafy only near the base. Spikelets usually in clusters. 
of hypogynous bristles. Style long, 3-fid. 
. LA 
5. S. setaceus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 73 (partly); small, stem WC and 
spikelets in a quasi-lateral head, style Ka KA longitudinally striato vii. 
transversely trabeculate between the striations, Reichb. Ic. FL. Ge RE 
39,t. 301. Boeck. im Linnea, xxxvi. (excl. var. B. & 7). Isolepis Com 
Br. Prodr. 222; Nees in Wight Contrib. 107; Strachey Cat. P. 
72 (excl. syn. pygmea). 
