672 CLXXIL CyPERACEH. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Rynchospora 
sessile, turgid, chestnut-brown, with 12-18 transverse wrinkles, beak (in the Old 
World examples) broadly conie, smooth or nearly so. [The names glauca and 
gracilis were published in the same volume. Many authors prefer the gracilis 
supposing the species to be Swartz’s Schenus gracilis. But Swartz says his Schon 
gracilis had a 8-fid style, so that it was no Rynchospora (except perhaps in sma 
part by mixture); Mr. Bentham has hence adopted glauca. ] 
Var. B chinensis (sp.) Boeck. 1. c. 586 (not of Nees & Meyen) ; spikelets longer 
up to i in. often bearing 2 nuts, beak longer often equalling $ nut, hypogynowe 
bristles usually reaching top of beak. R. glauca, Boeck. l.c. 585 (partly). " 
lavarum, Hook. & Arn. ‘Bot. Beech. Voy. 98 (not of Gaud.). R. laxa, refer 
Enum. 352 (not of Vahl) —Cryton; Thw. (C.P. 677, &c.). TENASSERIM S eje 
(Kew Distr. n. 6303), Grifith (Kew Distr. 6302).—D 1sTRIB. Sea-coasts of Madagasc., 
Borneo, China, Sandwich Isles. A maritime form. 
10. R. Griffithii, Boeck. in Linnma, xxxvii. 404, nut narrowly 
obovoid ellipsoid rounded at top, beak 3 nut, hypogynous bristles reach g 
top of beak scabrous; otherwise as R. glauca. 
East BENGAL ; Grifith (Kew Distr. 6303). Assam; Grifith. Kuasta; J. D. 
Hooker; alt. 4200 ft., C. B. Clarke. 
D ia 
Var. B LEVISETIS; hypogynous bristles 6 twice nut smooth. R chine 
“forma tenuis," Boeck. l. c. 587.—Upper Sikkim; Lachen and Lachoo m 0 
10,000 ft, in wet meadows. J. D. H.—A remarkable form, an alpine A Le 
R. Grifithii. The nut is narrow, so that Boeckeler's alliance of it with 
coast R. chinensis is not satisfactory. 
ll. R. sikkimensis, C. B. Clarke; glabrous, pa nous 
corymbs rather small, spikelets numerous bearing 3-6 nuts, by pogy owly 
bristles 6 scabrous twice nut, style-branches 2 long, nut small Die 
obovoid truncate, beak ovoid longer and broader than nut smooth (othe 
as R. Griffithii). 
UPPER SIKKIM ; Catsuperri Lake, alt. 8000 ft.—J. D. H. — flowers.— 
Spikelets i in., fine brown, with 12-18 glumes and 3-8 pistilliferous e. B87, 
This plant may be the R. chinensis described by Boeck. in Linnea, Tot agree in 
which he says has about 5 fertile flowers to the spikelet; but it h Oona 
nicle narrow, 
this particular with Thwaites n. 677, which is Boeckeler's type © 
UNDETERMINAL SPECIES OF RYNCHOSPORA. 
_ Scirpus (Rynchospora ?) got tts, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. Led, C bel 7-raye 
i. 227 ; stems 1-2 ft. hairy, leaves few towards base of stem hairy, e long hairy; 
spikelets oblong, glumes ovate subaristate smooth, hypogynous bristles imbristylis? 
arey and Wall] 
style compressed hairy and ciliate with broad cordate articulate base. Fi 
mollis, Kunth Enum, ii. 246. 
NEPAL; Wallich. +. toned to the 3 
The style being compressed must be assumed to be 2-fid ; this, JOme ted by 
long hypogynous bristles, would fix the plant in Rynchospora as soë" 
Wallich), but it cannot be referred to any known Indian species of that genus. 
15. SCHGENUS, Linn. (in part). 
s (except the 
Spikelets capitate or panicled; flowers axillary. Glume n 
uppermost tabescent) distichous ; 3 (or more) lowest empty, 1-4 follow ni 
perfect, nut-bearing, somewhat remote. Hypogynous bristles often p mp 
setaceous, not dilated at base. Stamens 3, anterior. Style 3-fid, Bi jn 4 
passing into the nut without any constriction below style-base- 
