CLXXIL CYPERACEE. (C. D. Clarke.) 685 
26. SCLERIA, Berg. 
3 Perennial or annual. Stems erect, leaf-bearing. Leaves narrow, sub- 
-nerved, often serrate cutting severely ; base sheathing. Panicle often 
stout, elongate, compound, sometimes narrow or reduced nearly to a spike ; 
primary bracts leaf-like, secondary narrow often setaceous. Flowers all 
unsexual. Spikelets unisexual, rarely bisexual; bisexual spikelet with 
one fem. fl. below, and a few males above; fem. spikelet similar, but upper 
male portion reduced to a small rudiment pressed laterally against the nnt 
or occasionally 0 (when the fem. fl. appears terminal). Glumes usually 
jd empty below the fem. glume, or in the male spikelets 2 below the male 
[AL fem. glume concave, margins not united at base round the pistil. 
Val 3-1; anthers linear-oblong, often mucronate. Nut osseous, often 
Cyne ; style linear, not dilated at base, deciduous ; branches 3, linear. 
ynophore usually prominent under the nut, apex dilated, often into a 3- 
toothed saucer.— Species 150, in moist warm countries. 
. e übgenns I. HxyroronvM (Genus), Nees in Linnea, ix. 303, character 
widened. Bisexual spikelets many. 
b l. s. pergracilis, Kunth Enum. ii. 354; very slender, nearly gla- 
rous, roots fibrous, spikelets clustered on a linear interrupted spike, stvle 
d, nut white tubercled fenestrate, disc obsolete. Strachey Cat. Pl. 
umaon, 73; Thw. Enum. 354; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 438. Hypo- 
porom gracile, Nees in Edinb. Phil. Journ. xvii p. 267, and in Wight 
ontrib. p. 118.—Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3406. 
Widely scattered from GuRWHAL, alt. 5600 ft., Duthie, to SYLHRT, Wallich. 
ERAR, Kurz, Crora NacPonE, T. Anderson, Deccan PENINSULA, Wight. 
EYLON, Thwaites—DIstRIB. Trop. Africa. 
„Stem 10-29 in. Leaves 4-10 by i in. Spike 2-6 in. ; clusters (of 2-5 sp'kelets) 
sean T. apart; bract ovate-lanceolate, hardly longer than clusters. Bisexual spikelets 
arcely 2 ins numerous, terminal, with sometimes a male spikelet close beneath. 
ov glume boat-shaped, ovate-lanceolate, greenish ; glume below it similar, sub- 
Pposite ; superior male glumes thinner, brownish, more obtuse, not keeled, Nut 
žo in, in diam., ovoid, trigonous, base narrow trigonous.—Dr. Trimen writes : ‘ The 
el À : 
non-scented leaves are used to drive away mosquitoes."' 
Fl. Ind. Occid. 92, in note ; 
e sheaths, rhizome woody, 
smooth (except in var. 8), 
117; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
a 2. S. lithosperma, Sw. Prodr. 18, and 
ender or medium, nearly glabrous except th 
panicle thin straggling. style 3- fid, nut white 
5€ nearly obsolete. Nees in Wight Contrib. lz. & - f 
Jn, 288 ; Thw. Enum. 354; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 451; Kurz in 
M As. Soc. xlv., pt. ii. 159 (not Hoch) S. tenuis, Retz. Obs. iv. 13; 
“rb, DL Ind. iii. 574. S. Wightiana, Steud. Sy». Cyp. 176. Scirpus 
qospermus, Linn. Sp. Pl. [ed. 1] 51. Schonns lithospermus, Linn. 
>P. Pl. (ed. 2], 65. Olyra orientalis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. ii. 674. Hypo- 
porum lithospermum, Nees in Mart. Fi. Bras. Cup. 172.—Scleria, Wall. 
at. 3417, 3418, 3419.—Rheede Hort. Mal. xii. t. 48. 
8 Throughout INpra (except the West arid area), alt. 0-3000 ft , common, from 
AD ATE to CEYLON and MALACCA. ANDAMANS and NICOBARS, Kurz.— DISTRIB. 
Wa 
irm regions except Continental Africa. 
li izome elongate," horizontal. Stems 11-3 ft., not tufted. Leaves 6-12 by 
ae sheaths usnally hairy. Panicle (fully developed) a ft., distant primary 
anches 4 in,, ascending, again divided ; but often very thin with few spikelets. 
