Mapania.] CLXXIL CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 683 
scabrous, infl. ovoid partial spikes rarely containing more than one spikelet. 
pid immersum, Thw. Enum, 433; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii., 
pi. 11. 63. l 
CEYLON, Thwaites (C.P. 3819). 
Leaves numerous, equitant, 2} ft. by 2 in., tip caudate. Upper scales of scape 
up to 1-2} in. long, linear-lanceolate; lower bracts similar to upper scales often 
overtopping infl. ; upper bracts shorter, lanceolate, passing into bracteoles. Partial 
(lateral) spikes, all (or nearly) of one spikelet. Nut nearly as in M. zeylanica, but 
more narrowed at base (shortly stalked). 
9, M. tenuiscapa, C. B. Clarke; scapes 4-6 in. very slender with 
scales only close to base, leayes narrow margins aculeate nearly through- 
out, inf. in fruit ovoid more or less compound, i.e. basal partial spikes 
containing more than one spikelet. Pand. Miquelianum, Kurz in Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii pt. ii. 81 (partly). P. angustifolium (sp.), Kurz ins. 
(correcting himself). 
Maracca, Grifith (Kew Distrib. 6299). JouonE, Ridley—Dristere. Sumatra. 
Similar to M. zeylanica, but iufl. and spikes smaller. Leaves numerous, 
quitant, up to 23 ft. by 2 in., long attenuate at both ends, aculeate ou midrib 
neath. Inflorescence (in fruit) hardly à in. in diam. Squamellw 6, $ in. long, 
hardly shorter than bracteole. Wut as of M. zeylanica, or scarcely smaller. 
10. M. longa, C. B. Clarke; scapes 10-25 in., naked except close to 
base, leaves elongate, infl. of 1 (rarely 2) large ovoid head, partial spikes 
ely containing more than one spikelet. 
INGAPORE, Ridley.—DisTRi5. Borneo. 
Leares 3 ft. by 3 on. tip attenuate, margins aculeate nearly throughout, keel 
beneath smooth except towards tip. Jnl. in fruit $ by $in.; bracts much shorter 
than inf, Nut i-i in. obovoid, beak short.—Perhaps better referred to Sect. 
Halostemma, ° , , 
C Leaves broad, suddenly narrowed at base into a quasi-petiole, at top 
‘nto a linear tail. 
ll. M. humilis, Naves § Villar in Blanco Fl. Filip. Append. 309; 
scapes 2-5 in. clothed by scales at base, leaves 1-13 in. broad, mfi, of one 
head 3-l in. M. lucida, N. E. Br. in Illustr. Horlic. xxxii. 77, t. 557. 
Pand. humile, Hassk. in Tydsch. Nat. Vereen. Ned. Ind. x. 119; Kurz in 
Journ, As, Soc. Beng. xxxviii., pt. ii. 82. P. Zippelianum, Kurz in Tydsch. 
Nat, Vereen. xxvii. 196, & in Bot. Zeit. xxiii. 204. P. Wendlandi, Gard. 
Iron. xxi. [1884] 711. Lepironia cuspidata, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 
93. L. humilis, Miq. Il. Fl. Archip. Ind. 61, t. 23. um 
H PENANG, Curtis. PERAK, Ning. Maracca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 6300), 
ervey, SINGAPORE, Ridley.—DistR1B. Malaya. . 
thizome short, woody, obliquely descending, passing upwards into a short stems 
“minated by a crown of densely equitant leaves; from the apex of rhizome atera 
y cending shoots break out, Leaves 13-3 ft., 3-nerved, aculeate on margins and on 
„eel beneath at least at top; quasi-petiole 2-12 in., dilated at base. Scapes axil ary 
1 the lower leaves rather stout, smooth trigonous upwards; basal scales ovate- 
lanceolate, hard, striate green with brown-scarious margins. nfl. young, oblong, 
mature ovoid; bracts shorter than head, similar to scales at base of scape. ower 
rtial spikes nearly always compound, i.e. containing a few spikelets ; praeteoles 
iis ovate, obtuse, striate. Squamelle 6, hardly shorter than braeteole, Dot 
rownish, Anthers linear-oblong, yellow, not crested. Style long ; M nes M 
"Éim. eilipsoid, sessile, dusk y-black ; style-base (in pistil aud in half-ripe nut) 
conical, beak-like, in ripe nut nearly completely absor bed. 
