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 3. S. annularis, Kmitli. 



Several feet high. Stem comprebsed, rather slender. Leaves 

 very long, about J inch hroad, margins veiy scabrons. Spikes 

 rather closely panicidately arranged on long axillary peduncles. 

 Nut smooth, white, glabrous : Disc a small unlobed saucer. 

 Apparently only in the Konkan. (Inrlia. irregularly scattered). 



(3) Disc •.Uohpil . Nutsmoot/i. 



A: S. hebecarpa, Nees. -l-o feet high. Stem rather slender 

 weak. Leaves very long, flaccid, narrow, about ^ in., sheaths 

 prominently winged. Panicle lax. Spikelets rather remote. Nut 

 ^ in., in young states often microscopically puberulous, mature 

 smooth, white. Disc lobes thin, sometimes almost glumaceous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, reaching to J- way up the nut and 

 appressed to it. 



A forest plant, apparently not uncommon in the forests of Kanara ; also 

 from Thana Dist. (Herb. Agr. Coll.) (Indo-Malayan). 



Note. — Here may also possibly be placed Talbot's Nos 1888 and 1907, 

 which are more robust with leaves 1 in. broad and sheaths Avinged up to 

 nearly ^r in. Unfortunately the specimens are both immature without nuts. 

 Or this may be a separate species, Kanara forests. 



At this point may be placed a specimen No. 1025 (A) of Herb. Talbot 

 from Yellapur. Slender, 4-9 in. Leaves i in. broad, exactly linear, flat, tip 

 obtuse, hairy ; margins smooth. Spikes very short, few-flowered on 

 axillary peduncles. Nut about ^^ in., white, smooth, or very obscurely sub- 

 corrugose, glabrous, with pyramidal top, not apiculate. Disc 3-lobed, 

 supporting the nut. Lobes thick, wrinkled. This is probably a new species. 

 Ft is mixed with »S'. te^salata, Willd., and, if not new, would be a very 

 mature condition of that plant, but the nut is smaller and diflerent in 

 general outline. 



(4) I)hc 3-6 lobed. Sut cancellately sculptured . 



'5. S. tesseliata, Willd. Very slender, (up tt) 2i feet, Cooke. 

 Availaiile specimens are mvich smaller). Leaves rather short, 

 narrow, linear, acute or obtuse, hairy or glabrate, smooth or 

 subscabrid on the margins. Sheaths winged or not. Spikes erect, 

 axillary or terminal simple or sub-paniculate. Nuts 1-12 in., can- 

 c^.ellately tessellate with square depression and puberulous with reddish 

 hairs, at any rate when young, apiculate. Disc 3-lobed, lobes ovate, 

 acute or subacute, pale, reaching only a little way up the basal part 

 of the nut. 



Heavy rainfall regions, occasional (Indo-Malayan and E. Asia). 



<j S. biflora, fioa;?^ 



As the last ; but lobes of the disc narrowly triangular, acuminate 

 or quite subulate, brown, reaching well up the side of the nut. 



Heavy rainfall regions, occasional. ^Scattered throughout the wet 

 parts of India). 



