688 CLXXIL CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Scleria. 
smooth or obscurely reticulate, dise-margin subentire. Nees ia Wight 
Contrib. p. 118. S. ceylanica, Kunth Enum. ii. 358; Thw. Enum. " . 
Thwaitesiana, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 454. S. lateriflora, Boec k. l.c. 
455; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. xlv., pt. 2, 159. S. hebecarpa, Thw. Enum. 
p. 354, 435. 
TENASSERIM, Helfer. NICOBARS, Kurz. CEYLON, Thwaites.—DISTRIB. d 
Stems 1 ft., connected at base on a very short slender lignescent rhizo nd 
Leaves with scattered slender needle-white hairs or glabrescent, tip lanceolate voy 
obtuse (not setaceous-caudate). Spikelets small, as of S. tessellata. Nut PA ist- 
3s in. in diam., dried young reticulate, mature osseous smooth or nearly so. hardly 
margin coloured, glandulose, not (or obscurely) 3-lobed.—S. laza, R. Br., 
difters but by its strictly fibrous roots. 
10. S. flaccida, C. B. Clarke (non Steud.) ; slender, softly hairy a 
over, roots fibrous, panicles axillary small distant, fem. glames hairy, ui 
3-fid, nut small ovoid smooth white, disc-margin subentire colo 
glandular. 
Assam (in Seebsagur), C. B. Clarke. Drop, Kurz. A icles 
Stems un VER) Leaves } in. broad, lanceolate, subobtuse at tip. Mag 
axillary, } in. long. Spikelets small, all unisexual, fem. 3 in. long ae rudiment 
taining the depauperated sterile apex of the spikelet as a lateral compress te, —Might 
(of two glumes) about 3 length of nut. Nut broad, obtuse not GETT i ed 
stand as a var. of the Australian S. rugosa, Br., which however has a re 
subtnberculated nut. 
*** Nut smooth, white, fluted longitudinally. 
11. S. caricina, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 426; annual, very ee 
nearly smooth and glabrous, panicle of several remote aer „margin 
clusters, fem. glume sub-3-toothed, style 3-fid, nut very, small, caricinum, 
obsolete. S. axillaris, Moun Cat. PI. Ceylon, p. 62. Diplacrum 2» Linnet 
Br. Prodr. 241; Endl. Iconogr. t. 25; "hw. Enum. 354; Booch 3 zevlani- 
xxxviii. 424. D. tridentatum, Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t. 26. . in / erb. 
cum, Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 119. Olyra malaccensis, Keng 
Heyne.— Wall. Cat. 3540. 
INDIA, frequent ; from the Sikkim; TERAI and Assam to CEYLON 
SERIM.—DIsTRIB. Malaya, China, Australia. 1 
Roots fibrous, slender. Stems 1-12 in., tufted. Leares 2 by ss 
tip subobtuse ; sheaths trigonous, not winged. Primary bracts (f 
gether leaf-like tuft usually of very small subsessile clusters just exs iculate with 
sheaths, but in evolute examples, lower clusters are sometimes par 
branches 1 in. long. Spikelets all unisexual, fem. jy in. long with 1 ovat 
male spikelets closely applied to its base. Fem. spikelet: lowest glume n ly emar- 
shaped obtuse ; 2nd glume (sterile) rather longer, boat-shaped, apex Pa linear- 
ginate (from the centre of the emargination the midrib is pro wer 
triangular point), smooth, 2.ribbed on each side ; 3rd glume sim u 
subopposite to it, containing fem. flower; no rudiment of an Upper E^. "pite, 
scarcely A. in. in diam.; disc small obpyramidal, margin mo n 
truncate.—See Goebel in Ann, Jard. Buit. vii. 132, t. 15, figs. 21729, 
the female flower truly terminal, and therefore places the 8p 
American Cryptangiec., 
and TENAS- 
**** Nut covered by conical tubercles hairy at their tips. b 
me ha 
12. S. Neesii, Kunth Enum. ii. 358; small, hairy, Geet head) 
any, panicle of 2-1 distant axillary clusters (in Ceylon one ter 
