692 CLXXII. CYPERACER. (C. B. Clarke.) [Scleria. 
Kwasia and Naca HiLLs, and MuNEYPooR, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H. $4 T. T, 
- B. Clarke, Watt. . 
ý porn SA in. in diam., covered by small ovate striate black-red scales, be 
3 ft., glabrous. Leaves up to 1 ft. by + in., tip setaceous, glabrous or hai SÉ gan 
usually wingless or occasionally distinctly 3-winged. Spikelets nad “Most easily 
Nut tin. long, young white shallowly tessellate, mature smooth shi i ia larly divari- 
known from the S. elata by the panicle-branches ascending (not rec : SI 4 dense 
cate). In the specimen Hooker sent to Berlin, the panicle is contrac "is "haraotet 
ellipsoid-oblong compound spike, and Boeckeler founded the species oae lower partia! 
but in well evolute examples, the panicle is large compound— 
panicles several, 8 in. apart. 
22. S. khasiana, C. B. Clarke (not of Boeck); robust, softly hay 
all over, partial panicles 1-3 lanceolate or subovoid branches + minutely 
3-fid, nut reticulate hairy, lobes of disc-margin short ovate erec 
apiculated. 
KuasrA Hiris, alt. 4500-5750 ft., C. B. Clarke. . re 
Similar and allied to S. Hookeriana, but less robust, more hairy, tos tt 
reticulated, lobes of disc-margin erect, lanceolate-caudate. Leaves 4s (except brac- 
tip, very hairy; sheaths densely (usually retrorsely) hairy. Spi e "ong ultimately 
teoles) nearly glabrous, often brown sometimes chestnut. Nut is hei ht of nut.—5 
retienlated hairy; tails of lobes of disc-margin reaching to j heig 
khasiana, Boeck., is S. Thomsoniana. 
1 - ized, 
23. S. junciformis, Thw. Enum. 354 (not of Kunth) ; medi id 
hairy, rhizome short branched, panicle narrow, spikes distant lobes very 
nut largeish obtuse obscurely reticulate, disc-margin trunca n, Cat. Pl 
short reflexed. S. hirsuta, Moon Cat. EE Geyt. 623 D A7. Cylin- 
Ceyl. 103 (not of Boeck.). S. pilosa, Boeck. in ANNELA, ` . xvii 
dropus le Nees in Linnea, ix. 309, & in Edinb. Phil. Journ 
266, and in Wight Contrib. 118. 
CEYLON; Reingan Corle, Thwaites (C.P. 3225). Leaves 
Rhizome 1 in. in diam., contorted, Lë nearly 3 ft., rather slender. partial 
up to 18 by } in., tip lanceolate subobtuse. Panicle very slen rg ikelets nearly 
panicle (spike-like) 1 in., nodding on a slender peduncle 2-4 UN, , on. long, as 0 
3 in., ferruginous, almost glabrous, no bisexual spikelets seen. nd infl, but the 
B. tessellata.—Approaches S. tessellata by its subobtuse leaves 8 , 
rhizome differs. ly gle 
24. S. melanostoma, Boeck. in Linnza, xxviii. 814 deeg eg 
brous except rhachis of panicle, leaves at nearly regular dis rtia "panicles 
not winged, ligule short narrowly scarious-margined, patie lack 
distant pyramidal, nut tessellated pale or often becoming o Dem, 
disc-lobes very short depressed ovate. S. Hasskarliana Nees & Arn. ms 
Boeck. in Engler, Jahrb. v. 511, 513. S. melanosperma, Ne $ T, T. 
in Herb. Wight, n. 2377.—Scleria sp. 15, Herb. Ind. Or. H.S. 
SULA; 
BENGAL and KHASIA Hits, frequent, Griffith, Ee, DECCAN PENINS 
tallum, Wight.—Disrrig. Java. d like it varies from 
This species is S. elata, without wings to the leaf-sheaths, an blackish nuts oc 
l to 8 ft. As to the colour of the nut, white and discoloured te, and it was è 
often in one panicle.—Some of Hooker’s Scleria, n. 15, is S. elata, 
formerly so named by Boeckeler, 
ctly ( falsely) 
Cour- 
tt Leaves (that is those next below the bracts) imperfe 
opposite or ternate. 
