660 CLXXII. CYPERACEE. (C. D. Clarke.) [ Scirpus. 
Le 231. S. emulans, Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. i. Ew SUE 
87 (partly). S. maritimus, var. emulans, Mig. H. Ino. hand S. sa. 
canaliculato-triqueter, Steud. Le 318. S. Griffithii, Boec os and Wa, 
berrimus, Boeck. in Flora, xli. 595. Hymenochete grossa, cima, Nees 
N. Phil. Journ. [1834] 264, & in Wight Contrib. 110. E 130 mes, 
in Linnea, ix. 293. Isolepis maxima, Dietr. Sp. Pl. u. . 
Wall. Cat. 3470. 
SSAM to 
Throughout INDIA (except the N.W.), alt. 0-2000 ft. ; from Sinp and A 
CEYLON and Maracca.—DisrRIE. Malaya, Tonkin, Philippines. «Stem 3-9 ft. 
Glabrous, or glumes with pedicels minutely puberulous-sca row "added. Leaves 
thick at base, roots fibrous often in water or mud ; stolons men eh often 8-16 in. 
often 4 length of stem, stout, broad, keeled, serrate-edged. ery to 3 ft. leafelike. 
in diam., supradecompound ; bracts several, divaricate, lowes Kai ie er ovate, 
Spikelets sessile and pedicelled, 1 in. long, ovoid, brown, dense- ^o qe nut, linear, 
obtuse with a minute mucro. Bristles 6 or fewer, in type as oe bristles depau- 
brown, scabrid or setose by short unicellular hairs, but not rar} anthers scarcely 
perated very short smooth, O in form S. maximus. Stamens 3; 
: -base con- 
crested. Style long. Nut scarcely 4 glume, minutely beaked by style 
fluent with nut. 
i villous 
Var. Kysoor (sp.), Rozb. l. c. 230; glumes more mucronate, pristles EA p. 
or almost plumose by numerous multicellular hairs. . Rynchospora ri 110).— Assam, 
Pl. ii. 74. Hymenochæte Kysoor, Nees (cf. note in Wight OR Clarke. Bombay, 
Jenkins. Bengal, Griffith, Ee, Chota Nagpore, alt. 2000 ft., C. B. i 
: . in. 10 
Dalzell.—Stolons fide Roxburgh Icon sometimes bearing black tubers $ 
diam. 
t ii. 41. 
Sect. 4. Biysmus (Genus), Panzer in Roem. & Sch. Syt má 
Medium or slender plants. Spikelets closely spicate. y 
* Stem with leaf-bearing nodes above the base, style 2-fid. 
aj closely 
18. S. Caricis, Retz FL Scand. 11; spikelets subdistichons Lat, 
spicate or densely subpaniculate, bristles 6 much ud gee var.) 
nut smooth ashy-black narrowed at both ends (bu 707. Schanus 
compressus, Pers. Syn. i. 66; Boeck. in Linnea, or in Link. Hort. 
compressus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 65. Blysmus compressus, Panz tolepis tibetic 
Berol. i, 278; Reichb. Ie. EI. Germ. viii. 36, t. 293. Lep 
Boeck. Cyp. Nov. heft. i. 31. 
. to KUMAON, 
W. HIMALAYA and W. TIBET, alt. 7-15,000 ft. ; from Lex, Stoliczka, 
tr. 
W. and Cen 
Duthie. PHAREE (N.E. Sikkim), G. King.—DisTRiB. Europe, 
Asia 
lar 
. low, ang" 
Glabrous. Rhizome creeping, divided. Stems 4-8 in., leafy be type form, 
y 
- : ikelets usu 
lowest bract short, or much overtopping spike. Spi 
chilla of spikelet 
from next above nearly as in Schomus. 
red-brown. 
. stems ^^ 
Var. brevifolia (sp.), Decne in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. ek 
with nodes and leaves above the middle, spikelets scarcely Isa Chini, degen, 
what distant, Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73.—West Himalaya ; jate Bristles * 
W. Tibet, alt. 13,000 ft., Stoliczka.—Glumes often scarcely striate. 
nut as in S. Caricis typ.—AÀ trifling var. 
