663 CLXXII. CYPERACEÆ. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Scirpus. 
2—4 times nut, slender, brown, smooth below, near apex thickened papillose-scabrous. 
Anthers not crested. Nut small, 4-2 glume, shortly beaked. 
22. S. chinensis, Munro in Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, 423; spikelets 
clustered, bristles 3 slender or 0, style 2-fid, nut compressed ovoid Ka Pl. 
smooth pale. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 395. S. sylvaticus, Strachey oe s 
Kumaon, 73. S. ternatanus, Reinw., Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. m. ` |- » 
Eriophorum var. conglomeratus, Boeck. in Herb. Berol—Hypolytrum, 
Wall. Cat. 3404 D (partly). 
From Coup: and Kumaon, alt. 0-5500 ft. Strachey d Winterbottom to 
MUNEYPOOR, Watt, and MABTABAN, Wallich.—DistRIB. China, Bonin Isles. ewamps 
Glabrous, except ultimate rays of umbel. Stems 2-7 ft., solitary, vabrous on 
often stoloniferous,  Leares long, often overtopping stem, 3 in. broad, sca t up to 
margins and keel. Umbel 4-8 in. diam., divaricate; bracts several, lowes obtuse 
20 in. Spikelets in clusters of 3-15, small, about } in., many-fld., ellipsoid, da 
brown. Glumes concave, ovate, obtuse. Bristles often 0, sometimes iG lets 
overtopping nut, as long as glume, ultimately scarcely elongate not twiste = rarely 
uot comose), smooth, minutely papillose-scabrous near tbe top. Stamens ` ically ` 
3; anthers scarcely crested. Nut à glume, smooth or sometimes micro ending 
verrucose.— The leaf-sheaths are long, occasionally perforated at base by des 
shoots (aerial stolons) covered with small ovate scales. 
. i ingle 
Sect. 6. MICHELIANI. Low, tufted, leafy. Spikelets small, in à ye 
head, bracts long. Glumes scarcely acute, not notched. Bristles 0. Style 
long, or branches long, continuous with the smooth nut. 
23. S. kyllingioides, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 792; spikelets voy 
small, style 3-fid, nut oblong-obovoid obtuse smooth brown or micro- 
Isolepis kyllingioides, A. Rich. Tent, Fl. Abyss. ii. 502. Kyllinga 
cephala, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 70 (excl. the Obs.). go; 
DrmHna Dnoow; Vicary. Mr. ABoo, alt. 3000 ft., and Goona, King tT Sav 
Vicary. HYDRABAD; Campbell. Canara; Young.—DistRis. Trop. An der long 
Glabrous. Stems 4-10 in., slender, base thickened, sometimes with p» ikelets; 
stolons. Leaves }-3 stem, very narrow, green. Head i in. diam., of 5-1 P nthers 
bracts 1-3 in., leaf-like. Stamens 2 (3 fide Boeckeler); filaments scabro; (some- 
short oblong, not crested, Style slender, not longer than nut, branches ^d. minute 
times 2 fide Boeckeler). Nut 4 glume, equally trigonous or Sort ily known 
apiculate; outermost cells subhexagonal, ultimately often punctate.— Mas y 
. . like à 
from the next species by its small head of very small spikelets, but 1 very li 
small Kyllinga, 
24. S. Michelianus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 76 ; spikelets numerous dense y 
compound-capitate, style 2-fid (very rarely 3-fid), nut oblong or ni l 
obovoid subacute smooth yellow-brown. Reichb. Je, Fl. Germ. m. Sch. 
312; Boeck. in Flora, liv. 158, 159. Isolepis Micheliana, Roem. fo Ll. 
Syst. ii. 114; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 29, 90, t Gen. Pl. 
Cyperus pygmeus, var. 8, Boeck. in Linneea, xxxv. 494; Benth. A usarius, 
i1. 1044 (partly). C. diffusus, Rozb. Fl. Ind. i. 189 (excl. syn). C. , Wight 
Herb. Ham. ; Wall. Cat. n.3325 A. Dichostylis Micheliana, Nees “ 
Contrib. 94.—1solepis, Wall. Cat. 3484 A, B. 
Throughout BRITISH INDIA; from Kashmir to Tenasserim, commo 
Europe, Asia, Algeria, r than 
Annual, tufted, glabrous. Stems 1-8 in., triquetrous. Leaves often ong?" chilla 
stem. Head 1-$ in. diam., bracts several long leaf-like. Spikelets ii y . anthers 
of spikelet marked spirally by the lozenge-shaped scars. Stamens usually imidal at 
hardly crested. Style about as long as nut. Nut À glume, shortly DI 
n, —DISTRIP: 
