Fuirena.] CLXXII, CYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 667 
Tho. Enum, 347 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 110. F. paniculata, Lam. TU. 
1150, t. 39. F. pentagona, Nees in Wight Contrib. 93; F. quinquan- 
gularis, Hassk. in Flora, xxv. (1842) Beibl. 3. F. uncinata, Thw. l.c. 347 
(not of Kunth).—Fuirena, Wall. Cat. 3542, 3543. 
Throughout INDIA, except the drier North-west, alt. 0-3000 ft.—DISTRIB. All 
warm (not too dry) countries. 
Stolons hardening into rhizomes, clothed by ovate-lanceolate striate scales, 
¢pals much shorter than nut, linear, glabrous or retrorse-scabrous, often 0. Petals 
nearly as long as nut, 3-nerved, minutely hairy, truncate at top and often notched 
"times with a minute mucro in the notch.—Generally known from F. glome- 
rata by the more compound corymb—an unsafe character; when the rhizome is 
wanting, dried examples can be certainly distinguished only by the shape of petals. 
13. LIPOCARPHA, Br. 
Glabrous. Stem leafy only near base, bearing a single head of few 
(usually 1-6) spikelets. Spikelets with very many hermaphrodite flowers, 
tabescent at top. Glumes imbricated on all sides, deciduous leaving the 
Persistent rhachilla marked by lozenge-shaped scars. Squamelle 2, an 
anticous and posticous, hyaline, elliptic, as long as nut (formed out of 
coalescent hypogynous bristles). Stamens 3-1, anticous; anthers small, 
hear-oblong, muticous. Style small, slender, glabrous, shortly 2-fid 
(sometimes 3-fid) scarcely exsert. Nut small, oblong or ovoid, plano- 
convex, smooth, reticulated, finally brown-black.—Species 13, warm 
ons, 
This genus in habit, inflorescence, rhachilla of spikelet, style and nut, is ex- 
sively like (and really closely allied to) Scirpus Sect. Micranthe ; from which it 
oly differs in the squamellz standing fore and aft, not laterally. These squamellz 
te hyaline, cling to the nut, and are difficult to see. 
l. L. argentea, Br. in Append. Tuckey Congo, 459; spikelets 1-8 
pale or fuscous, nut mueh shorter than squamella, style linear 3-fid as 
long as 3-2 nut. Tw. Enum. 347; Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73; Boeck. 
n Linnea, xxxvii. 114 (excl. American examples) L. levigata, Nees in 
Wight Contrib, 99. Hypelyptum argenteum, Vahl Enum. ii. 283. Tunga 
“gata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 183. Kyllinga albescens, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 68; 
Fl. Ind Bat, iii. 294.—Lipocarpha, Wall. Cat. 3445 F, G, H. 
8 From the WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 0-6000 ft.; and Assam to CEYLON and 
INGAPORE,— D)rsrRrD, Trop. and sub-trop. Old World. 
lo Rhizome hardly any. Stems 4-24 in., obtusely trigonous, smooth. Leaves as 
ng as stem or much shorter, Ae in. broad. Spikelets up to i by im; bracts often 
dr .Glumes obovate, apex obtusely triangular incurved. Nut sessile, obovoid or 
lipsoid obtuse. . . 
2.Y.s hacelata, Kunth Enum. ii. 267; spikelets 1-8 black-purple 
Tif pale Usually purple spotted, nut nearly as long as squamellz, style 
tad short 3-fid.” Thw. Enum. 347; Boeck. in Linnza, xxxvii. 116. _ L. 
ceps, Nees in Wight Contrib. 92. Hypelyptum sphacelatum, Vahl 
num, ii. 283, H. ceylanicum, Nees in Linnea, 1x. 288. Tunga triceps, 
Roxb, Fl. Ind. i, 188. Scirpus hemisphzricus, Roth. Nov. Pl. Sp. 29. 
By pelytrum triceps, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 363.—Lipocarpha, Wall. Cat. 3444. 
as ironghont IxDrA (except the dry N.-West), alt. 0-2000 ft., from NEPAL and 
*X to CEYLON and 'TAvoy.—DisTRIB. Trop. Africa and America. 
