Schenus.] CLXXI. CYPERAOEE, (C. D. Clarke.) 673 
hollow of the zi d i i 
( .Zigzag persistent rhachilla, trigonous.—Species 5 i 
Australian; with a few Cosmopolitan, Malayan, J apanese ‘and Chilign I 
l. S. nigricans, Linn. S i 
" s Linn. Sp. Pl. 64; stem without nodes except n 
nd spikelets almost capitate, hypogynous bristles 1-3 nut or nearly oben 
n 2 yle. 1 1, nut sessile ovoid smooth marble-white. Boiss. Fl. Orient 
P, Ailch. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 104. Chaetospora nigricans Kunth 
num. 11. 323; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 290. 
PUNJAB; Kurum Valle itchi ; Pinwi 
mopolitan, except S E. alk y, Aitchison. SIND; Pinwill.—DisrRiB. Nearly cos- 
subtereta glabrous. Rhizome horizontal, woody; stolons 0. Stems 4 24 in., 
Spikelets d eaves 4-12 in., often half stem, very narrow with incurved margins. 
tect, often iri in. long, in a close distinctly compound head; lowest bract sub. 
- brown ks in, Giumes ovate, obtuse, microscopically hispid on keel, chestnut 
acutely Dyremidal "es empty, 1-3 next nut-bearing. Nut 45 in ellipsoid, top 
thre, 3. calostachyus, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii. 251; stem with nodes 
Ypo, out its length, spikelets nearly 1 in. long loosely panicled, 
o NOM bristles 4 nut white, style 3-fid, nut ovoid slightly tubercular 
Sa CG chestnut-black. Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 368. Chætospora 
136 ra ya, Br. Prodr. 233. Cyclocampe waigiouensis, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 
- Cyclocarpa waigouensis, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 339. 
SINGAPORE ; Ridley—Distr18. Malaya, Australia. 
terete me short, horizontal, woody. Stems 1-2) ft., rigid, rather slender, sub- 
farce] ower leaves 4-12 by 15. in., glabrous ; sheaths at their mouth scarious, 
the GT escent. Panicle 8-16 in. long, with 8-14 spikelets; lower bracts like 
chestnut upper reduced nearly to sheaths, Spikelets elliptic-lanceolate, compressed, 
margins. A Die Glumes elliptic-lanceolate, scarcely acute, minutely hairy on 
der i -8 lowest empty, densely packed; 3-2 following nut-bearing, distant on 
ag rhachilla. Nut } in., subsessile, trigonous, curved. 
16. CLA DIUM, P. Browne. 
nflorescence minutely hairy. Stems round 
Leaves equitant, xiphoid or trigonous at 
tips M flat. Spikelets panicled, often in sessile clusters at the angles of 
ofe 5h ranches, small, with 4-11 glumes. Flowers 1-7, axillary, lowest 
ach spikelet perfect, nut-bearing. Glumes imbricate on all sides ; lowest 
(usually 2-3) empty, smaller (or not larger) than succeeding 1-3 in- 
s male or sterile, tabescent. 
Sie perfect flowers; uppermost glume 
bran EI nous bristles slender, or small, or 0. Stamens 3-2. Style linear ; 
midd] es 3, long; style-base dilated, fused with nut. Nut small or scarcely 
able ZZ beak large pyramidal, or smaller umbonate, or undistinguish- 
tom nut, or reduced to a speck.—Species 44; one cosmopolitan; the 
Test j We . ` 
nsular or maritime, in both hemispheres. 
viti ubgenus I. Evcrapium, Benth. Fl. Austral 
at nodes carrying leaves (or leaf-like bracts) 
mero ot distichous. Panicle oblong of several corymbs. 
us, clustered, most 2-fld., the lower flower nut-bearing. 
AS Mariscus, Dr. Prodr. 236; stems 3-8 ft., leaves 3 in. broad 
void 28, glumes brown subobtuse, hypogynous bristles 0, style 3-fid. nut 
VOL p shining chestnut-colrd. Boeck. in Linnea xxxviii. 232, C. 
7 X x 
o stont perennials, glabrous or i 
attened, leafy or leafless. 
. vii. 402. Stems tall, round 
their whole length. Leaves 
Spikelets nu- 
