656 OLXXII. CYPERAOEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Seirpus. 
Br. Prod. 221; Nees in Wight Contrib. 107; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. m. 309. 
Schenus junceus, Willd. Phyt. i. 2, t. 1, fig. 4.—Scirpus, Wall. Cat. 
3461. 
Throughout Inp1a and CEYLON (except Assam), alt. 0-3000 ft. —D rsrR1s. Old 
World generally, and in America, . 
Roots fibrous. Stems 2-12 in. Leaves short, usually less than an inch. Head 
of 7-1 spikelets, quasi-lateral; lowest bract as though a continuation of the pers 
1-4 in., terete, channelled (not triquetrous). Spikelets 1-4 in. many-fld, bür 
pentagonous. Wut as long as half glume, acutely triquetrous, or slightly 
compressed. 
Var. uninodis; heads umbellate, on 3-1 rays rarely so much as 1 in. Ei 
mucronatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 216 (not of Linn.). Isolepis uninodis, Delile i € 
Egypt. 8, t. 6, fig. 1. I. ambigua, Zoll. Syst. Verz. Ind. Archip. it. 62 lick 
Steud.). I. oryectorum, Steud. Syn. Cup, 96.—8S1N»p ; Pinwill. BENGAL ; TS: 
J.D. H. CoROMANDEL; Roxburgh; Wight. CEYLON; Leschenault, Macrae. 
DisTRIB. Trop. Africa, Java, Austral. 
8. S. erectus, Poir. Encyc. vi. 761; stems medium or elongate teros, 
spikelets in a single lateral head, glumes ovate concave incurved, dn d 
6-5 rarely 0, style 2-3-fid, nut broadly obovoid plane-convex obtuse 8 "i y 
transversely wavy black. S debilis, Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. i. 55; Bon Lui 
Austral. vii. 232. S. juncoides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 216 ; Mig.Fl. Ind. 12 e 
303. S.luzonensis, Presl. Rel. Hzenk. i. 193 ; Nees in Wight Contrib. 1 "à if 
Wallichii, Nees in Wight Contrib. 112. S. junciformis, Nees l. c. 1l n 
Retz). S. timorensis, Kunth Enwm.ii.162. S.supinus, var. D aud y B "Hum , 
Linnea, xxxvi. 600. S. lateralis, Herb. Heyne and S. ternatus, Herb. Roem. 
Wall. Cat. 3462, 3468, 3469, 4471. Eleocharis juncoides, Schultes m ` 
& Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. 90. 
Throughout INDIA with CEYLON ; alt. 0-3000 ft.—Distris. Temp. 
Awm., Austral. . ted by 
This species united with S. supinus by Boeckeler has been agam se Pa Tho two 
Bentham l.c. on the characters of the bristles, style branches and nut, ;kelets, 8: 
appear amply distinct; S. supinus has carinate glumes and angular sp 
erectus has concave glumes and terete spikelets. 
Asia and N. 
rete spongy 
ate acu e, 
D . ab. 
214; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 702. S. fistulosus, Forsk. F' l. Am, 
14. S. prelongatus, Poir. Encyc. vi. 764 and Suppl. v. 91. >- lata Nees 
and S. subarticulatus, Roxb. Fl. Le 214, 215. Isolepis articula 11, 286. 
Mart: 
Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-3000 ft., from the Hansen to CEYLON and 
MEIN.—DisrTRIB. Africa, Philippines, Australia. versely 
Root fibrous, Stems 4-30 in., densely tufted, soft, often (when dry) "zz stem, 
septate; sheaths at top membranous, soon torn. Lowest bract simitar 4-4 in Jong: 
appearing a continuation of it, and often longer than it. Spikelets t slightly 
rusty or purple, usually many, but heads of few spikelets occur. amens US y 3 
keeled, not notched at tip, margins neither fimbriate nor hairy. 
