kleria. | CLXXII. CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 693 
i 25. S. bancana, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 602; robust, nearly gla- 
‘ous, partial panicles dense approximate subcoalescent branches ascend- 
pt, sbikelets dusky stramineous, style 3-fid, nut ovoid apiculate reticulate, 
d 8 of disc-margin 3 ovate-triangular auricles reflexed. S. macrophylla, 
[ne Rel. Haenk. i. 200; Nees in Wight Contrib. 116. S. malaccensis, 
ck, in Linnea, xxxviii. 007.—Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3409. 
` TENASSERIM, Kurz. Maracca, Grifith. SINGAPORE, Wallich.—DisTRIB. 
orneo, Tonkin, 
Rhizome woody, 3-8 in. diam. Stems 2-4 ft. Leaves (upper approximated in 
P) 12-18 by 4 in., tip lanceolate subobtuse; sheath triquetrous sometimes nar- 
Wy 3-winged. Panicle uninterrupted in Indian examples (in Borneo lowest partial 
panicle is sometimes 5 in. distant); secondary bracts long, linear, conspicuously 
art. Spikelets nearly as of S. elata. Nut de in. in diam., white or straw-colrd., 
mutely hairy, ultimately glabrate; lobes of disc-margin reachiug to } height of 
Ui, adpressed, pale. 
Be S. multifoliata, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 510; robust, nearly 
Pabrous or (var.) hairy, partial panicles pyramidal red (except var.), style 
Wë nut reticulate hairy often finally discoloured, lobes of disc-margin 3 
"angular attaining i-i height of nut.—Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3407 (partly) 
9810 (partly), 3411 (partly). 
Hi ANGOON and Tavoy, Wallich. SiNcaAPORE, Grifith, &c.—DisTRIB. Malay 
leaves (next below lowest bract) in (false) whorls of 2 or 3, tip setaceous, 
uu rins scabrous cutting the hand; sheaths not winged. Nut-bearing spikelets 
ue hat obovoid. Nut Ae in. long, rather narrower than in adjacent species, often 
lately dark red, shining or subviscid. Margin of disc cup-shaped at base, its 
be es thick red adpressed sometimes entire often crenulate occasionally their edge 
into Short oblong blunt lobes terminated by glands (approaching sub-gen. 
x ‘zolepis).—Most readily distinguished from S. sumatrensis by the narrowed base 
the fruiting spikelet, . 
ik ar. pilosula; more hairy, leaves beneath densely softly hairy, panicles and 
d elets fuscous stramineous. S. pubescens, Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 61 (not of 
We -).—Penang, King’s Collector, &c. Java.—Plant 3-6 ft.; spikelets greenish 
vs (King); lower bracts subopposite (like the upper leaves) ; panicle only slightly 
elets narrow, 
cca; summit 
b Var, Ophirensis; panicles fuscous, lower peduncles long, male spik 
which might 
"nu disc-margin shorter (than in S. multifoliata type), pale.—Mala 
t. Ophir, alt. 5000 ft., Hullett (n. 869).—A very coarse rigid ferm, 
fated as a species, 
?7. S. sumatrensis, Retz. Obs. v. 19, t. 2; robust, nearly glabrous, 
d, style 3-fid, nut globose reticulate 
Ziel pauicles pyramidal brown or re 1 ate 
æn finally discoloured, lobes of disc-margin very large attaining 57i 
eight of nut obtuse. Nees in Wight Contrib. 116; Thw. Enum. 353; 
eck, in Tinnæa, xxxviii. 513; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. xlv., part 2, 159. 
"Getigera, Boch, Fl. Ind. iii. 575. S. purpurascens, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 169. 
~Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3407 (partly), 3408 B, 3413. E 
8. BENGAL to SINGAPORE, frequent. NICOBARS, Kurz. PrNANG, Wallich. 
Fries —Disr 
Sonn em bles S. multifoliata, Boeck., and most easily distinguished by the broad 
"ded base of the fruiting spikelets.—Secondary bracts 1 in., filiform, often con- 
vous, Nuti in, diam., mature glabrate, pale or brown, or often dark red 
ming, Lobes of disc-margin sometimes nearly enveloping the nut, truncate 
met; 
"times crenulate undulate. 
