694 CLXXII. OYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Seleria. 
28. S. levis, Retz Obs. iv.13; robust, nearly glabrous, partial panicles 
pyramidal rigid brown, style 3-fid, nut globose smooth, v ht f nut. 
of disc-margin 3 ovate pale spreading attaining scarce 3 og in Wight 
S. levis, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 314; Roxb. Fl. Ind. lii. 5751 Ner) "Kurz in 
Contrib. 117; Thw. Enum, 354; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 5 / PL. Gel 
Journ. As. Soc. xlv., part 2 [1876] 160. S. zeylanica, Moon Ca , ` A d 
62 (fide Trimen, not of Poiret).—Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3410 (partly), 
artly). 
p From Assam to SINGAPORE, alt, 0-1000 ft. Niconans, Kurz. CzrLon.—DIs- 
TRIB. Java, Hongkong. A ‘tingui 
Similar to S. sumatrensis and S. multifoliata, but generally easily distinguished 
by the globose white nut.— Panicle usually slenderer than in S. sumatrons 1? ante. 
dary bracts less conspicuous. Glume to the nut broadly ovate at base, e dise margin 
Nut 455-3 in. in diam., depressed-globose, somewhat trigonous; lobes o toothed. 
somewhat thick, white with green nerves, at tip entire or slightly crenate- 
Sect, 3. ScuızoLerIs (Genus), Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. (pars. D YS 
186 (char. extended). Character of Elatw, but rim of disc-marg 
numerous triangular or lanceolate teeth. 
. ial 
29. S. bracteata, Cav. Ic. v. 34, t. 457; robust, hairy, P pe 
panicles several upper male with numerous small spikelets, lower ad. nut 
fewer larger spikelets (1-sexual plants also occur), style l toothed. 
globose verrucose, rim of disc truncate rigid crenulate or scarce d "vi 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 515. Macrolomia bracteata, Nees v. C. 
i. 24. 
TROPICAL AMERICA, abundant. , : tri- 
Var, B assamica; nut tessellate scarcely verrucose, rim of disc with mr j 
angular (sometimes narrow almost lanceolate) teeth. —Sceleria, n. 6, e separated 
H.f. & T.— Assam, Masters (in Herb Kew).—This Assam plant canne into Assam ; 
from Schizolepis. lt is not easy to conjecture how it could be introduc evertheless. 
but I believe it to be only a form of the purely American S. bructeata n 
UNDETERMINED SPECIES OF Scleria. «00 ft, Rink— 
ScLERIA RINKJANA, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. ii. 30.— Drago, alt. 2500 ft, 
“ Allied to S. tessellata, Willd.," Boeck. 
27. KOBRESIA, Willd. 
. -like 
Glabrous, nearly smooth, perennials. Stem simple, bearing grass 
leaves near base only and one cylindric or oblong terminal spl tly often 
sect. 4) leaves and several loosely panicled spikes. Spikes (app ets male, 
simple) 1-sexual, or 2-sexual (when fem. spikelets inferior). Bp! ` mes (the 
or fem. ]-fld., or bisexual with one fem, fl. at base. Fem. 9 ar ins in 
bracteole to spikelet) homologous with utricle of Carew, its forming 
their lower half more orless connate in their upper half ier ; encloses 
thus frequently an imperfect utricle (which in bisexual spikele fd (in A. 
rhachilla of male 1-4-fld. upper portion of spikelet). Style 2- narrowl 
macrantha 2-fid). Nut usually as long as glume, oblong OF region. 
obovoid, trigonous (in K. macrantha flat).—Species 20, N. temp. 
_ Sect. I. Hemicarex (Gen.) Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 1072 (chiefly) LA, 
with l apparently simple linear or oblong spike. Fem. spike , 
Mn sometimes the rudiment of rhachilla within fem. § 
