Scleria, ] OLXXII. CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 689 
spikelets somewhat large lanceolate hairy, style 3-fid, nut small globose as 
though softly glochidiate. Tw. Enum. 354; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxviii. 
9. S. stricta, Moon. Cat. Pl. Ceyl. 62. Hypoporum capitatum, Nees in 
TÉ ix. 803, & in Edinb. Phil. Journ. xvii. 267, & in Wight Contrib. 
CEYLON, Macrae, &e.—DistR1B. Borneo. 
In the Ceylon specimens—Stems 4-8 in. Leaves lanceolate, tip subobtuse. Head 
globose, of about 12 spikelets. Spikelets all unisexual (not a Hypoporum), nearly 
tin. long, ferruginous; female glume mucronate. Wut about A in. Dise minute, 
patent, margin as long as contracted base of nut, pale, truncate scarcely 3-lobed.— 
The Ceylon specimens (not plentiful) have uniformly small 1-headed specimens, but 
are a small form ofa Borneo plant, which is a foot high with the lower axillary head 
of spikelets remote, 
Sect. 2. Elat». Robust plants with thick (except in S. psilorrhiza) 
Woody horizontal rhizome. Leaves (in many) caudate-setaceous at tip. 
artial panicles rigid, often pyramidal. Lobes of disc-margin entire [or 
slightly digitate in S. multifoliata]. 
bh Sheaths (of middle stem-leaves) winged (sometimes in S. elata, and S. 
tumensis obscurely). 
13. S. hebecarpa, Nees in Linnwa, ix. 303, and in Wight Contrih. 
In; scarcely robust, slightly hairy (see also var. 8), panicle thin scarcely 
hed, style 3-fid, nut minutely velvety, lobes of disc-margin lanceolate 
thin brown concavely applied to nut. Thw. Enum. 435; Boeck. in Linnea, 
prvi, 478, S. alata, Moon Cat. Pl. Ceyl. 62. S. scrobiculata, Zoll. 
erz, Archip, Ind. ii. 61 (not of Nees). S. stipularis, Thw. Enum. 353, 435 
(not of Nees).—Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3415. 
Throughout INDIA (except the N.W. arid region), alt. 0-5000 ft., and CEYLON, 
mon.—DisrRIB, Malaya, China, Japan, Australia, Polynesia. i 
Rhizome lin. in diam:, clothed by ovate striate dark-red scales. Stems usually 
i, occasionally taller; sheaths (or some of them) usually distinctly 3-winged. 
ves 1 ft. i i in dried specimens more or le te, 
; margins scabrous (cutting) in pm 1 f. long, oblong ; partial 
Usually lon H . 
8 g acuminate, occasionally subobtuse. c 2 a 
Panicles usually thin lax of few spikelets, but sometimes stouter pyramidal, their 
often much exsert conspicuous, but sometimes short. Spikelets all unisexual ; 
80. Lin, slightly scabrous Seele hairy ; fem. glume mucronate; superior sterile 
rudiment usually present. Wut 4^; in. long, ovoid, obscurely trigonous, narrowec at 
*5 straw-colrd. or brown, nearly always obscurely reticulated, margins a MM 
iis; y, Microscopically brown-hispid, or finally glabrate almost shining. Lobes o 
argin as much as 1—? height of nut. . . 
Ar. pubescens (sp), Stend. Syn. Cyp. 168 ; more hairy, sometimes softly 
W^. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 400. S. vestita, Boeck. l. c. xxxviii. 482. de Om la, 
n Cat. 3414. S, sumatrensis, var. B, Mig. Fl. Ind. Dat. iii. 341 (not of Re oftl 
fom Sikkim and Assam to Chota Nagpore, Malaya, China.—Leaves often softly 
us beneath, Rhachis of panicles very hairy. Spikelets sometimes hairy. 
l4 s, Thomsoniana, Boeck. in Linnza, xxxviii. 479; robust, gla- 
ous à ? ` icles remote narrow slenderly 
Dm rhachis of panicle), partial. pame “hairy, lobes of disc-margın 
Tel, style 3- tessellated minutely ' c-n 
FAM short Mad celexed yellow-brown. S. khasiana, Boeck. Cyp. 
ov ii, 29.—Scleria, sp. 12, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. et T. T. 
d Ca HILLS; on the southern slope, alt. 0-3000 ft., from Chela to Lakhat, 
e T. Ze, MUNEYPrOOR, alt. 2500 ft., C. B. Clarke. vy 
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