690 CLXXII. CYPERACEE, (C. B. Clarke.) [Seleria. 
: : 1 
Rhizome X in. thick. Stems 3 ft. ; sheaths broadly 3-winged, sometimes obscure y 
winged ; ligule glabrate or not, rarely densely hairy. Panicle often tinged m ; 
lowest peduncle often 6 in. Spikelets like those of S. hebecarpa ; disc Weg elata by 
spongy shortly reflexed as three ears.—Most easily distinguished from 8. 
the glabrous rhachis of the panicles. 
15. S. alta, Boeck, in Limnwa, xxxviii. 485; robust, glabrous (eve 
rhachis of panicle), partial panicles narrow somewhat remote, t base 
nut tessellated minutely hairy, lobes of disc-margin 3 united a 
appressed to the nut pale green rounded crenate at summit. 
. r 
Fast BrNGAL; Foot of Khasia Hills, Grifith, J. D. H. § T. T; Mudhopoo 
Jungle, C. B. Clarke. . : t 
Very near S. Thomsoniana, except the lobes of disc-margin ; secondary brac 
longer, more conspicuous. 
- or 
16. S. elata, Thw. Enum. 353, a (excl. C.P. 825); robnst, wt rigid 
less hairy (at least rhachis of panicle), partial panicles of the disc- 
pyramidal, style 3-fid, nut tessellated minutely hairy, lobes o Linnea, 
margin short obtuse or scarcely obtuse-triangular. Boeck. Willd.) q 
xxxviii. 487. S. lithosperma, Roch, FI. Ind. ii. 574 (nof of Willd.) 
Hasskarliana, Boeck. in Engler Jahrb, v. [1884] 511. Diap aon 
chinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 709.—Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3408, A, U. 
ON.— 
Throughout INDIA (except the N.W. arid region), alt. 0-2000 ft., and Cer" 
DisTRIB, Java, China. 20. n labrous. Leares 
Descr. of Thwaites, C.P. 3030.— Stem 3 ft. by 4 in. in diam., e d when dry 
1-2 ft. by Àj in., tip attenuated, margins scabrous, cutting the soh broadest ; 
recurved ; sheath 3-winged, wings broad or narrow, two wings often los 4 by 3 in, 
ligule depressed-ovate, hairy. Panicle 1 ft. by 4 in.; partial panic all unisexual, 
branches rectangularly divaricate, red, hairy. ‘Spikelets numerous, ts scarcely 
male and fem. scattered in all parts of infl.; panicle dense, bat T brous, sterile 
clustered. Fem, spikelets 1 in.; fem. glume shortly mucronate, ES hebecarpts 
superior glumes tabescent (generally present). Nut 4-45 in. ob ° of disc-margi" 
and similarly becoming glabrate ultimately, white or dusky E lobes of his S. elata 
scarcely attaining } height of nut, ferruginous or red.— Thwaites P ring « trialate 
* sheaths not winged," whereas Boeckeler puts it in his section inl from C.P 
sheaths." The explanation is that Thwaites described S. elata Wu P. 3030, 
n. 825 (which is S. chinensis, Kunth, var. 8), while Boeckeler describ hily treated 
which is the very common S. elata. Thwaites may, however, have rg pi 
is (winged leaf-sheaths) as of small importance. : winged, 
Var. latior; stouter, dd often 6-9 ft. very thick, sheaths conspi alt. 
panicles large dense, spikelets clustered dusky, nut larger white" 
0-3500 ft., common. 
Var. decolorans ; robust, panicle dark-red, nuts larger early 000 
black-purple as are glumes.—Sikkim, Khasia, Muneypoor, alt. 3-6 
S. elata, but 
discoloured, finally 
ft., common. 
17. S. chinensis, Kunth Enum. ii, 357; similar to Ar margin 
ligules with an ovate-oblong scarious brown elongation © ees in Wight 
é-4 in. long. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 486. S. ciliaris, Zoll. Pf- 98 
Contrib. 117 (not of Mich.. S. scrobiculata, Moritzi Vere. 
(not of Nees). 
SINGAPORE, Ridley (n. 1556).—DrsTRIB. China, Malaya, N- A pide scarious 
Var. biauriculata ; wings of leaf.sheaths narrow or sometime. ene at base 
margin of ligule shorter (12 in. long), broad obtuse very fragile Jahrb y, p 9117 | 
S. elata, Thw. Enum. 358, partly, S. exaltata, Boeck. in Engier 4 aar" K 
Ceylon, Thwaites. Singapore, Ridley (n. 1556). 
