684 CLXXI. CYPERACEÆ. (C. B. Clarke.) 
24. SCIRPODENDRON, Kurz. 
Stem stont, with nodes upward, terminating in an oblong panicle. Basal 
leaves very long, narrowed at both ends. Spikes clustered, ellipsoid, of 
many spikelets. Spikelets of 8-11 glumes beside the bracteole, viz. 2 lowest 
boat-shaped, opposite, monandrous; 3 uppermost quasi-whorled, narrow- 
oblong, thin, empty; 3-6 intermediate, monandrous, or sterile. Style 
long linear, branches 3, base continuous with ovary. Nut large, osseous, 
coarsely 6- (or more-) ribbed longitudinally, dusky-black, obtuse. 
S. costatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii., pt. ii, 85; basal 
leaves 3-8 ft. by 1 in., narrowed gradually at both ends aculeate on margins 
and midrib beneath upwards. Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 341 ; Goebel in Aun. 
Jard. Bot. Bwilenz. vi. 199, t. 14, fig. 1-11. S. sulcatum, Miq. Ill. Fl. 
Archip. Ind. 65, t. 28. Hypolytrum costatum, Thw. Enum. 940. Pand. 
costatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii., pt. ii. 85, in Obs. Scleria 
macrocarpa, Wall. Cat. 3538. 
CEYLON, Konig, Trimen, PENANG and SINGarorE, Wallich. Maracch, 
Grifith (Kew Distrib. n. 6134).—Disrris. Java, Austral., Samoa. sl 
Rhizome woody. Stem 1-2 ft., at top + in. in diam. trigonous, smooth. Pantie 
4-6 in. long; branches clustered, thick, short; lower bracts leaf-like, upper very 
short. Spikes 3 in. long; spikelets }—4 in. ; bracteole (outermost glume) as long ` 
spikelet, ovate, obtuse, striate, chaffy, dirty straw-colrd. Squamelle, two outer mo 
much shorter than bracteole, hairy on keel; inner narrower, rather shorter. ^v 
2 in. long, 3 in. in diam., woody, with succulent epicarp (eaten im Samoa 9Y 
natives). 
25. LEPIRONIA, Z. C. Rich. 
Stem long, simple, leafless except a few scales at base. 
parently) simple, lateral, oblong-ellipsoid, of mauy spikelets. ite 
of 8-11 glumes beside the bracteole, viz. 2 lowest boat-shaped, oppor ? 
monandrous; 3 uppermost quasi-whorled, narrow-oblong, thin, er " 
3-6 intermediate, monandrous or sterile. Style rather short, Jed on 
branches 2, linear. Nut ellipsoid, much compressed, acutely Keele 
margins, smooth dry. 
Spike (ap 
PS pikelets 
4 
t. 14, fig. 12, 13. Scirpus coniferus, Poir. Encyc. vi. 756, and Supp Pr dr. 
Matacca, Gaudichand, Grifith. SINGAPORE, Lobb. CEYLON, Thwaites, P 
DisrRis. Madagascar, Malaya, Queensland, Viti (China cult. only, 
Rhizome horizontal, woody, clothed by ovate subacute striate 
Stems approximate, § in. in diam., when dry apparently transvers 
often covering base of stem for 4-8 in.; uppermost produced on one se „hestnut, 
not green. Spike usually 3-1 in. long, occasionally much larger, brown wl imbri- 
lowest bract often 1-2 in. Bracteoles (apparently flower-glumes) Spir^ d Two 
cated, $ in., ovate, obtuse, rigid, not striate, ultimately deciduous with » seurely 
m squamelle scarcely shorter than glume, hairy on keel. Nut to 
vugitudinally striate; linear style-base persistent. 
ferrugiu 
ely septate ; 
