Gahnia.] CLXXII. CYPERACEH. (C. B. Clarke.) 617 
6l. Svzyganthus multiflorus, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 153. Schonns panicu- 
we Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 296 (not of Burm.). S. Hasskarlii, Steud 
e, 166. 
MALAY ISLANDS; from Sumatra to Fiji. 
Nearly glabrous. Stem often 3 ft., terete. Leaves often nearly as long as stem, 
i-i in. wide, tip caudate very scabrous. Panicle 12 by 3 in., dense; branches from 
each lower sheath usually several (sometimes 15); lower bracts long, similar 10 
leaves, Spikelets nearly + in., when young lanceolate ; lower flower sterile or male 
or wanting. Lower glumes 3—4, keeled, mucronate ; upper glumes 3-2, when young 
very small, ultimately enlarged hardened, 3 as long as the uppermost keeled glume. 
Stamens in lower flower 4, in the upper 3; filaments persistent ultimately elongate 
aud brown, often retaining the nut. 
Var. penangensis ; lowest bract shorter, often not half length of panicle, panicle 
loser, branches finally nodding (not in subherect clusters).— Penang, alt. 3000 ft., 
ele. Perak, alt. 6500 ft., Wray. Malacca; Punnus, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 
d). 
20. REMIREA, Aublet. 
_A glabrons perennial. Stem short, with numerous long leaves, Spikes 
digitately capitate; bracts long. Spikelets densely sessile, 1-fld. G/umes 
4, imbricate laxly on all sides, small, ovate-triangular, three lowest empty 
freen striate, uppermost nerveless containing a perfect quasi-terminal 
ower. Hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 3, unilateral. Style linear, 
smooth ; base not dilated; branches 3, linear. Wut oblong-ellipsoid, tri- 
g°nous, smooth; style deciduous. 
The flower is here really axillary, the continuation of the axis suppressed at an 
erly stage. The plant is allied to the Rynchosporeæ, as Bentham has it. 
R. maritima, Aubl. Pl. Guian. i. 45, t. 16; stem nearly covered 
iy sheaths of leaves (i.e. head sessile) or only covered near base (i.e. head 
Peduncled), Beauv. Fl. d? Owar. ii. 929, t. 78; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
Si (1876), pt. ii. 158; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 435. R. pedunculata, Br. 
Ge 296; Thw. Enum. 345. R. Wightiana, Nees in H ight Contrib. 92. 
‘Asticophylla, Boeck. in Flora, xli. 410. Mariscus capitatus, Zoll. Verz. 
p Areh ip. i 63. Lipocarpha foliosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. m. 337; Kurz Fl. 
"gin 224.—Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3378. 
Sea-consts, Canara; Talbot. TENASSERIM; Helfer; MALACCA, Griffith; Nico- 
eut Kurz; Ae, Cayton; Thwaites (C.P. 3227.)—DrsrmiB. All tropical sea- 
"sts, H 
feele t ^ i tufted from the branched head of 
ume, 2-6 in, eg gece caves often longer than stein, narrow, 
ngid, curved nearly smooth. Bracts 2-6, patent, 1-3 in., leaf-like. , Spikes about 
Nu 2"£, ellipsoid, of about 3; spikelets, dirty straw-colrd. Spikelets 4 in., el (ée 
Wei glume, chestnut-colrd.; outermost cells minute, round-hexagonal, o 
Porose (ie nut puncticulate.) 
?]. HYPOLYTRUM, L. C. Rich. 
Stem with so Leaves flat, somewhat thin, 
me nodes far above the base. Lea? ` 
Perved, narrowed gradually At each end. Spikes panicled, branches 
d bracts long, leat-like. “Spikelets without glumes interposed »etwe 
Wo opposite basal males and the terminal pistil except iu H. turgidum 
