Scirpus. ] CLXXIL CYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 657 
Style slender ; branches 3, long. Wut nearly half as long as glume, almost symmetric- 
trigonous, faces concave. 
10. S. quinquefarius, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3465; stems medium or 
slender terete nearly leafless, spikelets 1-9 in a single lateral dense head, 
glumes broadly ovate acute inflated in fruit, bristles 0, style 3-fid, nut 
obovoid triquetrous faintly transversely wavy black. Boeck. in Linnea, 
Ti 701. Isolepis lupulina and I. Roylei, Nees in Wight Contrib. 
NORTHERN INDIA, from RAwvr PINDEE, Aitchison, SIND, Pinwill, and CENTRAL 
Inu, King, to Assam, Wallich § Gmriffth.—DisrRIB. Turkestan, Cabul, Trans- 
, Root fibrous. Stems 2-12 in., often (when dry) transversely septate. Spikelets 
saming straw-brown. Glumes many-ribbed, sometimes laxly spiral, sometimes 5- 
ranked, Nut with interrupted paler transverse lines.—Very nearly allied to S. 
articulatus ; but in the fruiting spikelets the glumes are looser inflated more shining, 
reminding Nees of hops (whence his name lupulina). 
_ll. S. mucronatus, Linz. Sp. Pl. 73; stems medium or robust 
triquetrous nearly leafless, spikelets in a single lateral dense head, glumes 
ovate subacute, bristles 5 or 6 unequal, style 3-fid, nut obovoid trigonous 
suning black smooth scarcely transversely wavy. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
Vm. 40, t. 303; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 703. S. muticus, Don Prodr. 
. S. triangulatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 217; Nees in Wight Contrib. 111. 
S. javanus, Nees /. c. 112. S. sundanus, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 304. S. 
nysurensis, Herb. Heyne; Wall. Cat. 3467. 
Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-6000 ft.—DisTRIB. Europe, Madagascar, warmer Asia, 
a. 
Roots fibrous or a short horizontal rhizome. Stems 8-30 in. ; sheaths triangular- 
anceolate membranous at top on one side. Lowest bract }-4in., as though a con- 
tinuation of the stem, trigonous. Spikelets 4-} in., pale or (especially in the hills) 
mut-colrd. Glumes keeled, many-ribbed, not notched at top, margins glabrous 
® minutely Scabrous-hairy. Bristles retrorsely scabrous, two longer ones nearly 
as long as nut. Nuź somewhat compressed, as long as à glume. 
12. S. corymbosus, Heyne ex Roth. Nov. Sp. Pl. 28; stems stout 
terete leafless, spikelets clustered on rays of a lateral umbel, glumes ovate 
‘cute mucronate, bristles 0, style 3-fid, nut obovoid trigonous black smooth 
r with faint transverse lines. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 706. S. incli- 
Datus, Delile; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 381. S. bangalorensis, Herb. Heyne; 
Vail, Cat. 3464. Isolepis corymbosa, Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 110, and Mant. 
1.65; Nees in Wight Contrib. 108. I. inclinata, Barbey Levant, t. 8, fig. 9. 
“Isolepis, Wal. Cat. 3471, 3472. 
WzsrERN INDIA; Sind, Pinwill, Mount ABOO and GoonaH, King. JUBBUL- 
PORE, Beddome. HYDERABAD, Campbell. BANGALORE, Wallich.—Africa, Mada- 
ar, 
y, Rhizome 2-4 in., horizontal. Stems approximate, 3 ft., at base } in. in diam. 
mbel simple or compound, rays usually short sometimes 5 in. long ; lowest bract 
m., suberect, hardly simulating a continuation of stem. Spikelets }-} in., 
Y- Glumes faintly striate, glabrous, not notched at top. Nut scarcely 4 as 
Ne as glume, pyramidal at top.—S. supinus, var. uninodis differs by having leaves 
ad nut more obtuse. 
i D Nut smooth or obscurely reticulate (outer cells of nut subquadrate or, 
4 longitudinally oblong, arranged as brick-wall parenchyma).— Glumes 
Pehed at top, except in S. grossus. Bristles 7-2, rarely 0. 
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