Rynchospora.| out, cYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 669 
NEPAL ard Assam to CEYLON, NICOBARS, Kurz and MALACCA.—DISTRIB. Trop. 
Africa, S.E. Asia to Japan, Malaya, trop. Australia. 
Stems tufted, 4-24 in., trigonous, striate, smooth; stolons 0. Leaves several, 
] stem, $ in, broad, flat, minutely scabrous, glabrous or sometimes hairy. Spikelets 
90 in a head, 3-3 in. diam.; bracts 3-8, 1-3 in., glabrous or villous-ciliate. 
Glumes 6-7 ; 3 (or 4) lowest empty, ovate, scarcely acute; fourth longer containing 
1 perfect flower, fifth containing a sterile (or no) flower; seventh glume (when 
present) narrow, thin, rudimentary. Hypogynous bristles sometimes 6 as long as 
aut, brown, scabrous (teeth pointing upwards) sometimes 6-4 half as long less 
scabrous, sometimes rudimentary or 0. Stamens 2, less often 3; anthers linear- 
oblong, crested. Mut 4 glume; beak narrow conic, i-i nut, pale, smooth or rarely 
scabrous, 
Sect. 2. HaPLosrYLIS (Genus), Nees in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. 
Suppl. i. (1843), 101. Spikelet bearing one nut. Glumes obscurely disti- 
chous. Nut dorsally compressed i.e. flattened with one face next axis (as 
m Juncellus). 
2. R. Wightiana, Steud. Cyp. (1855), 148 (Rhynchospora); spikelets 
abont 1 in., hypogynous bristles 6 scabrous, style very shortly 2-fid, nut 
ear-oblong black minutely white dotted. Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 
(1873), 544. Haplostylis Wightiana, Nees in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 
Ux. Suppl. i. (1843), 101. . 
Mapmas PENINSULA, from Poona, Jacquemont and Cuunpa, Duthie, to 
Lon, Wight.—DisTRIB. Cochin China. (Also a var. in Brasil.) 
Stems tufted, 4—24 in., slender, trigonous, glabrous; stolons 0. Leaves several, 
stem, A, in. broad, glabrous, or scarcely ciliate. Spikelets numerous, in a 
se rusty brown head } in. diam.; bracts 3-6, 2-6 in., ciliate on margins near 
` Glumes 6-7; 3 (or 4) lowest small empty, fourth longer with perfect nut- 
“ring flower, upper male or rudimentary. Bristles rigid, as long as nut (some- 
times twice as long), brown, minute teeth pointing upwards. Nut 3 glume, 
s times ornamented by scattered papille ; beak 4 nut, pale, decurrent on margins 
nut, 
3. R. longisetis, Br. Prodr. (1810), 230 (Rhynchospora); spikelets 
arly $ in., hypogynous bristles 3 scabrous 3 plumose, style very shortly 
fd, nut linear-obovoid brown. Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 541; Benth. 
` k Austral. vii. 350. R. Prescottiana, Wall. Cat. 8423. NM 
“ngisetis, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii. 959. Cephaloschcenus longisetis, Nees 
m innza, ix. 996. "d. longirostris, Nees? in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 
"x, Suppl. i. (1843), 101 in Obs. 
& Borxa; Prome, Wallich n. 3423; Karenia and Pegu, Kurz; Nummayan, R. 
ovt.— DIsTRIB. ralia, . 
Closely resembling. R. Wightiana, but heads larger. Hypogynous bristles 
Usually twice nut (exclusive of beak), in the upper half all are simply scabrous with 
neth pointing upwards, in the lower half the 3 inner (petals) are nearly glabrous, 
the 3 outer (sepals) densely plumose. Nut nearly j in., often minutely bristly “al 
shoulders ; beak 2 nut, conic-oblong, not decurrent on nut. [There are several 
Boen lied Australian species included under R. longisetis both by Bentham an 
eler.] 
Division II. PorycernaLs. Spikelets in distant dense globose heads. 
Ste i —(The other species of this 
Die with nodes and leaves far above base.—['T d ces, an Thave the nut 
Vision form th haloschenus proper of 
orsally compresi. but the single Indian sp. has the nut laterally 
“mpressed i.e. is closely allied to R. Wallichiana.] 
