074 CLXXII. OYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Cladium. 
germanicum, Schrad. Fl. Germ, i. 75, t. 5, fig. 7. C. jamaicense, Crantz 
Inst, i. 362. Schoenus Mariscus, Linn. Sp. PI. i. 62. 
Kasmurn ; Lake, alt. 5200 ft., Jacquemont, &c.—DIsTRIB. Cosmopolitan. `. 
Glabrous, stoloniferous, Leaves often nearly equalling stem; teeth on margins 
and midrib beneath cutting. Panicle 1-2 ft. long or more; cory mbs distant, several 
times corymbosely divided; lower bracts leaf-like, Spikelets usually in globose 
clusters of 4-12. 3—1 in., young lanceolate, ripe ovoid, uniform brown. Glumes 
6-7, ovate, concave; 3-4 lower empty, smaller; rhachilla abbreviated, persisten . 
Stamens usually 2; anthers linear-oblong, crested. Nut scarcely Je in., hard; style- 
base ovoid, large, fused into nut, of which the cavity is carried up into style-base. 
Subgenus IL. Macmxniva (Genus), Vahl Hnum. ii. 238. Clusters 
panicled, mostly sessile at the angles of zigzag branches. Hypogynous 
bristles small. Nut more or less stalked, rostrate. 
2. C. Maingayi, C. B. Clarke; stems stout flattened, basal lenve 
equitant $ in. broad, spikelets dark-red, hypogynous bristles slender longer 
than nut, style 3-fid, nut turgid trigonous shortly stalked, beak tong 
pyramidal hairy. 
Mr. Opnrr (Malacca), alt. 4250 fte, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 6304), Se, 
Stems 1-3 ft. Basal leaves several, crowded, often as long as stem; istant 
O or occasionally 1. Panicle 12-18 in., oblong; lowest branch often eee 
Spikelets 2 in., ovoid, usually bearing 2-4 nuts. Glumes ovate, tip Var, 
scarcely acute; 2-3 lowest empty. Hypogynous bristles 6, their upper half t p 
clothed with short upward-pointing hairs. Nut An in. long, on a short obpyram! 
stalk.—Very near the West Indian Macherina restioides, Vahl. 
3. C. undulatum, Thw. Enum. 353; stem long round-trigonons 
leaves basal very narrow, spikelets brown, hypogynous bristles P 
shorter than nui, style 3-fid, nut sessile ovoid brown. beak very aria 
Lepidosperma zeylanienm, Nees im Linnwa, xxxvii. 232. Tricostn "t 
fimbristyloides, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 384. Carpha junciformis, Bert 
tn Linnea, v. 38, 267. 
CEYLON, Rottler, Thwaites, Ze, MALAY PENINSULA; Pahang, Ridley. 
TRIB. Malaya, Australia. ept 
Nearly smooth and glabrous, Stem 1-3 ft., somewhat slender, leafless exe i 
near base. Leaves 9-18 by } in., convolute when dry. Panicle 2-12 in., E hort. 
varying in development ; branches flexuose or zigzag; lowest bract leaf-like or ® Fect 
Spikelets in clusters of 2-5, 1 in. long, ellipsoid, 1-2-fld.; lower flower P mons 
nut-bearing. Glumes not distichous; two lowest smaller, empty. Hy pore th 
bristles 6, hardly 3 nut, setaceous, base dilated white. Nut scarcely yo 1» Ke s 
beak depressed, pyramidal or umbonate, not 4 nut, hairy.—The hypozy? it that 
are as of Lepidosperma, but the lower flower producing the nut does not $ Aus- 
genus.—Bentham (Fl. Austral. vii. 384) considers the Ceylon, Borneo an 
tralian plants here united as three species, 
stem leaves 
—Dis- 
0, 
Subgenus TIT. Bavwra (Genus), Gaud. in Freycinet Voy. Bot. 416, ` M 
Clusters of flowers panicled, mostly sessile at the angles of 219248 uw dan 
Hypogynona bristles 0. Nut nearly or quite sessile, rostrate (1n the® 
Species). 
ed, 
4. €. riparium, Benth. FI, Austral. vii. 405; stems obscurely P ps of 
cauline leaves few obscurely xiphoid or subterete, panicle elong? e lax 
many spikelets, style ?-fid, nut obovoid round-trigonous SMO? > ij 
2n conie minutely hairy. Baumea riparia, Boeck. in Linnma, ** 
