Mapania. | CLXXIL CYPERACEEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 681 
upper as though in a whorl, narrow-oblong, thin, empty. Style continuous 
with ovary, persistent; branches 3, long. Nut osseous, small or large, dry 
or succulent, beaked or obtuse.— Species 33, Tropical, cosmopolitan. 
Sect. I. HaLosrEMMA (Genus). Wall. ex Benth. in Gen. Pl. iii. 1070 (^y 
a misreading of bad lithography). Leaves long narrowed at both ends. 
Lateral scape long or short. Spikes capitate in a single head, distinct, of 
many spikelets; bracts shorter than spikes. Spikelets often 4 in. Nut 
dry, buried in the chaffy bracteoles and glumes; beak small conic, or 
hardly any. 
.l. M. silhetensis, C. B. Clurke; scape 1-2 ft. smooth upwards 
with 1-6 spikes, leaves often 1 in. broad scarcely seabrous on the keel 
beneath, bracteoles 3 in. 3-5-striate, style 3-fid, nut ovoid much narrowed 
at base almost stalked. Pandanophyllum palustre 8 silhetana, Kurz in 
JE, A Soc. Beng. xxxviii. pt. ii. 79 (partly.)—Cyperacea, Wall. Cat. 
n. . 
UPPER Assam; alt. 300 ft , Jenkins, C. B. Clarke. SYLHET ; Wallich. 
Rhizome long, nearly 4 in. diam. Leaves 1-3 ft., margins scabrous. Scape ro- 
bust, sheathed at base by some horny scales, naked upwards. Spikes $ in., ellipsoid ; 
Tacteoles $ in., chaffy, elliptic-oblong, dirty straw-colour, persistent. Squamelle 
and glumes linear-oblong, nearly as long as bracteoles; 3rd lateral glume sterile. 
Ka long, slender, branches 3 long. Nut į in., ashy black; beak very small, fused 
ith nut, 
2. M. palustris, Benth. in Gen. Pl. iii. 1070; scape 1-2 ft. glandular- 
scabrous upwards with. 10-50 spikes, leaves often lj in. broad acutely 
scabrous on keel beneath, bracteoles 4 in. lacerate at top often sub-bifid, 
“yle 3-fid, nut ovoid little narrowed at base. Pandauophyllum palustre, 
Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 138; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii. part 
` 78 (var. malesica) (not of Hassk.). Lepironia palustris, Mig. IU. F?. 
Archip. Ind. 63, t. 25. 
SINGAPORE; Ridley.—DisTRIB. Malaya. 
hizome long, nearly 4 in. diam. Leaves 3-4 ft., margins scabrous. Seape ro- 
bust, sheathed at base by some horny scales. Heads 1}-2 in. diam. Spikes in. 
ellipsoid, bracteoles chaffy, persistent. —Squamelle and glumes linear-oblong, nearly 
as long as bracteoles, 3rd lateral glume sterile. Nut j in., ashy-black, beak smak 
coic. — Pandanophyllum palustre, Hassk. (in Tydsch. Nat. Vereen. Ned. Ind. x. 119, 
297) had a bifid style and 3-5 spikelets, so that it cannot be present plant (according 
W a specimen in the British Museum from Teysmann it was Cephaloscirpus, Kurz, 
with which the general description of Hasskark coincides). 
J M. Kurzii, C. B. Clarke; scape 4-16 in. smooth upwards with 
1-15 spikes, leaves 1 in. broad aculeate on keel beneath, bracteoles $ 1n. 
Strongly 13-striate reddish-brown. 
Matacca ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. 6356). PERAK; alt. 1750 ft., King. PENANG, 
on Government Hill, alt. 1750 ft., Maingay, King. — . f a Pandanus; 
iome thick. Leaves densely equitant, very rigid, harsh, as of a Pandanus ; 
tips long attenuate trigonous, aculeate. Inflorescence 1 in diam., rigid; bracts 
Short, ovate, brown. Spikes i in., ellipsoid, brown. Bracteoles ovate, obtuse, rigid, 
‘neurved, entire at apex. Squamelle nearly as long as bracteole, brown. Nut not 
*et.—Closely allied to M. palustris ; spikes and spikelets rather smaller. 
4. Mt. andamanica, C. B. Clarke; 
scape 4-12 in. smooth upwards, 
leaves broad almost flaccid smooth on keel beneath, 
bracteoles 2 in. 
