686 CLXXI. CYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Scleria. 
D 
Spikclets much clustered, many bisexual à in. long, nearly smooth and. ga 
very similar to those of S. pergracilis but larger. Nut A, in. long (so 
smaller) ellipsoid, trigonous, base narrow trigonous. 
ith 
Var. 8 (Rozburghii), Thw. Enum. 354; rather stouter, nut rather, ez 
pyramidal subacute apex, transversely wrinkled by ferruginous Sat ls (at Deninenla, 
young), Hypoporum Roxburghii, Wees ms.—Ceylon, Thwaites ; eren keleta more 
Wight.—Partial panicles much more rigid, subpyramidal, clusters o regard Re 
numerous and dense.— This might be esteemed a species, but too Word eges from 
not be paid to the reticulation or wrinkling of the nut in Scleria, whi avery species 
irregularities in drying, &c. The outer cells of the nut in Scleria are 
small, quadrate-hexagonal, obscure. 
" l 
3. S. corymbosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 574; robust, coarse, neatly 
glabrous, panicle long copious of several compoundedly-corym, Agere 
partial panicles, style 3-fid, nut white, smooth, disc very ima “non 353; 
gyna, Nees in Linnea, ix. 303, & Wight Contrib. 117; Wo uo 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 536. S. majus, Moon Cat. Pl. Ceyt. 
corymbifera, Boeck. l.c. 587.—Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3412. 
Y EYLON, 
Warm moist region, sparsely Scattered from Kasia Tgrat, J.D.H., to C 
uvaites, and MALACCA, Griffith. . . , Stems 
T Rhizome horizontal often, l in. in diam., clothed with brown sodes en 
3-8 ft., stout ; sheaths triquetrous, not winged. Leaves 20 by p id Spikelets 
brous. Infi. 1-2 ft. by 4-6 in. ; lower peduncles exserted 1-4 ech E straw-coled. 
i in. long, nearly all bisexual, clustered and solitary, usually brow! S. lithosperma 
sometimes more or less chestnut-colrd., constructed nearly as " Sz onous, muc 
but stouter; stamens often 3. Nut nearly } in. long, ellipsoid, los row . margin 
narrowed at base. Disc slightly dilated, scarcely 3-lobed, yel dark red. 
(inner disc of authors) very short, subtriangular, glandular, often da 
icle of 
4. S. Ridleyi, C. B. Clarke; slender, nearly glabrous, pum, 
few small very distant axillary corymbs, style 3-fid, nu 
apiculate, disc very small. 
SINGAPORE ; Pular Buru, Ridley (n. 1611). — DISTRIB. Hongkong, A aed scales. 
Rhizome horizontal, } in. in diam., clothed by small ovate stria rrowly winged; 
Stem 2 ft., Ae in. in diam., triquetrous, scabrous; sheaths very Lea ves 12 by ii 
ligule almost truncate, margin narrow scarious hardly hairy. h text with about 
Partial panicles scarcely 1 in. in diam., lowest 4-8 in. from the other male spike" 
8-20 spikelets. Nut-bearing spikelets usually with male fl. at top, mbosa, Roxb., t 
lets also added. Nut (rather more pointed) and disc as in S. cory the difference 12 
which Boeckeler has referred it and which is the true affinity; bu 
stoutness, stem-leaves, and panicle is very great. 
Subgenus IT. Scteria proper. Bisexual spikelets none or few. 
s fibrous 
Sect. I. TsssetLATA. Slender (sometimes tall) plants. Kä at tip 
or the rhizome very short not thick. Leaves not caudate 89 ‘ced to spikes, 
Panicle narrow, the lower axillary panicles often remote, reduc 
sometimes very short. 
* Nut tessellated. 
e 
5. S. tessellata, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 315 (excl. cit, Rumph), e thin 
sometimes tall, hairy or glabrate, roots fibrous, panicle f di g 
lower branches remote, style 3-fid, nut tessellate, lobes © 
short ovate erect thin pale. Nees in Wight Contrib. 118 , ropinqua 
p. 394 (var. B only); Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 470. 5S. P 
