670 CLXXIL CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) — [ Rynchospora. 
4. R. malasica, C. B. Clarke; globose spikes 2-6 distant spiked 
or racemed, spikelets 1-fld., hypogynous bristles 5-6 twice as long as nnt 
capillary smooth, style very shortly 2-fid, nut obovoid smooth chestnu 
colrd. beak narrowly conic pale. 
MALAY PENINSULA; Malacca, Grifith (Kew n. 6358); Singapore, Ridley.— 
DISTRIB. Borneo. uu 
Stems nearly 2 ft. Leaves often overtopping stem, $j in. broad, glabrous t 
scabrous pilose; bracts all similar to leaves, lowest sometimes 4 in. from the S 
Spikes 4-2 in. diam. of about 15 spikelets. Spikelets } in., constructed ^ pus 
Wallichiana. Nut } glume, biconvex; beak nearly as long as nut, smooth, 
narrow. 
Division III. Panicunat®. Paniculate. Spikelets solitary or clustered: 
Stem robust, with nodes and leaves (or bracts) far above base.—CalyP 
stylis (Genus), Nees in Linnea, ix. (1834), 295, is part of this Division. 
5, R. aurea, Vahl Enum. ii. 229; robust, nearly glabrous with. 
out stolons, spikelets numerous in several corymbs, style very sie d 
2-fid, nut obevoid truncate, beak as long as nut, and nearly as m 
base. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 396, and FI. Austral. vii. 349; Mig. A». ^v 
Bat. ii. 936; Thw. Enum. 352; Boeck. in Linnæa, XXXV o “998: 
articulata, Roem. § Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. 49; Dalz. & Gibs. Bom). 4 ad ir. 
Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iti. 337. Scirpus corymbosus, Linn. Amen. 39 EI 
308. Schænus articulatus, Rows. Fl. Ind. i. 184 [ed. Wall. l ii a 
surinamensis, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 68, t. 21, fig. 1. Calyptrostylis latus, 
Nees in Mart. Brasil Cyp. 138, t. 13. Cephaloschoenus SCH, 115. 
Nees in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. (1834), 266, and in Wight C ull. Cat. 
tens, Herb. Wight; Wall. Cat. 3371 A.—Rynchospor Wat 
Throughout Iwp1A (except the north-west), in the hot region, 
SIKKIM and Assam to CEYLON and SiNGAPORE.—DisTRIB. Warm reg 
globe. : ts) their 
Stems 2-3 ft., smooth or scabrous upwards, with leaves (or leaf-like DO at 
whole length. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 4-1 in., on margins (and often on Kes ts mostly 
scabrous. Panicle often 1 ft. long, composed of 3-5 corymbs. Spiker smaller, 
solitary, rusty-brown, about } in. long. Glumes about 7; lowest 3 (or ) flower ; 
ovate, sometimes mucronate; fourth glume longer, subobtuse, with pe ut simply 
upper glumes male or sterile. Hypogynous bristles 6, as long 3$ ` minutely 
scabrous, not rarely unequal or some deficient. Style exceedingly long iy wavy; 
dant; from 
aba ions of tbe 
bifid at tip. Nut Ab in., 4 glume, smooth, reticulated or trans hardly 
beak pale, flattened, more or less grooved longitudinally on each face, furrows on its 
exsert from glumes.—In the American forms the nut has usually tw 
shoulders and 2 pits (sometimes large) on its back; in the Asia 
furrows and pits are often just ** indicated," often entirely absent. 
6. R. triflora, Vahl Enum. ii. 232; somewhat robust, le very 
glabrous, stolons often present, spikelets in loose corymbs, $ 7 longer 
shortly 2-fid, nut ellipsoid truncate transversely undulate, bea lonicà: 
than nut linear pyramidal. Boeck. in Linnza, xxxvii. 625., R. COF gorus: 
Kunth Enum. ii. 294. R. zeylanica, Thw. Enum. 352. Scirpus Ne in 
Poir. Encycl. Suppl. i. 248. QCephaloschemnus Zeylanicus, i 
Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 1834, 265, and in Wight Contrib. 115. 
piorhynchium triflorum, Nees in Mart. FI. Bras. ii. (pars 1) 136 in no% 
CEYLON; Thwaites n. 3036, Macrae.—DisTR1B. Tropical America. ms leave? 
Stolons rather slender, clothed by ovate striate straw-colrd. scales. , 
tic plants thes? 
