668 CLXXIL OYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) ` [Lipocarpha. 
Very like L. argentea, but can usually be distinguished by the more purple 
heads, It is largely confused in collections with L. argentea, but can be satistuctonly 
separated by the shorter squamellz and style. 
3. L. microcephala, Kunth Enum. ii. 268; spikelets 4-1 pale a 
fuscous squarrose, glumes acuminate tip excurrent recurved, style 118: 
nutlinear-oblong as long as squamelle. Boeck. in Linnea, DUM d 
Debeau Fl. Tehefou,140, t. 3, fig. 2. L. Zollingeriana, Boeck. m d 
xli. 100.  Hypslyptum microcephalum, Br. Prodr. 220. Ascolep 
kyllingioides, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 105. 
SINGAPORE ; Ridley.—DisTRIB. S.E. Asia, Australia. weak. 
Glabrous. Stems 4-10 in., slender. Leaves 4-3 length of stem, uri rh two 
Glumes ovate, scarcely obovate, acuminate. Spikelets smaller than in 
preceding species. 
14. RYNCHOSPORA, Vahl. 
Plants varying much in size and habit. Leaves long, narrow, SRI 
letsin l or more heads, or panicled, often clustered. Glume o lowest 
lower more or less distichous, upper spirally imbricated; t tect nut- 
(sometimes more) empty, fourth usually longer containing à pa thinner 
bearing flower ; uppermost more or less tabescent, male or steri è fourt 
in texture rounder on back than nut-bearing glume; above the lame 
glume another (in R. Sikkimensis 2-4 more) similar nut-beanng E rior. 
follows. Hypogynous bristles often present. Stamens 3 (or 2-1), ant a 
Style long, linear, glabrous, branches 2, long or short, sty le-base, le-base 
Nut oblong or ovoid, compressed, beaked by the persistent B OS 0 
(clearly distinguishable from nut).—Species 150, in the warmer reg. 
the world, specially numerous in America. 
m iyle 
Series A. HarrosrYugm, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. m. 1059. Sty 
very shortly 2-fid, or almost undivided. 
visi tems 
. Division I. Carrraræ. Spikelets in a single terminal head. P 
with leaves only near the base. 
vat. Cur. 
_ Sect. I. Sprmroscuamnvs (Genus), Nees in Nov. Act. Acad. eer? 
xix. Suppl. i. (1843), 97. Spikelet bearingonenut. Glwmes Sp, g 
as DD 
Nut laterally compressed ie. flattened with one edge next am! 
Pycreus). 
ra); 
l. R. Wallichiana, Kunth Enum. ii. (1837), 289 (Bag 
stems slender, head globose dense brown, bracts longer than houlders- 
very shortly 2-fid, nut obovoid smooth or minutely scabrous SE Boeck. 
Benth. Fl. Hongk. 396 and Fl. Austral, vii. 349; Thw. Enum. Ls 
in Linnea, xxxvii. 542 (excluding American examples). R.H 75 N 
Hel. Hænk. i. 199. Schonus ruber, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 1. d in Wight 
Wallichii, Nees in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1834 (n. 34) 265 0. 295 and Y» 
Contrib. 115. Haplostylis Meyenii, Nees in Linnexa, 1X. (1834), ntrib. 15 
Edinb. New Phil. Journ, 1834 (n. 34) 265, and im Wight Cont Acad. 
(partly). Sphæroschænus Wallichii, Arnott & Nees in Nov. s Le 1 
at. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. 97. Cephaloschæœnus parvus, ^i ii, 69.7 
Mariscus umbellatus var. procerior, Zoll. Verz. Ind. Arcup. 
Rynchospora, Wall. Cat. 3422, 3428. 
