Seleria.] CXLIII. CYPERACEJE. 427 
or acute, j to 2 in. long, the sheaths striate and keeled. Spikelets 
unisexual, under 1 line long, in little dense axillary clusters sessile or 
very shortly pedunculate, each spikelet in the axil of a thin glume-like 
bract. Male spikelet: Glumes about 3, very thin and narrow; 
flowers usually 2, each with 1 or 2 stamens. Female spikelet: Glumes 
usually 3, the 2 inner ones ovate-lanceolate, acute, with an acute tooth 
on Baagh side shorter than the central point ; flower 1 only, without any 
ty. glumes above it. Nut closely enveloped in. the 2 enlarged 
Hoa nerved glumes, globular, reticulate and pitted, slightly hispid. 
Disk adnate, small, with a scarcely prominent 3-angled or 3-lobed 
ay ,E 
margin. men acrum caricinum, R. Br. Prod. 241; Kun num, ii. 
360; Endl. Iconogr. t. 25; Beckel in un xxxvii. 434; 
on Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Bot. t. 26. 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander. 
Common in tropical Asia from Ceylon to Hongkeng and the Malayan Archipelago, 
The close connection of this plant with Sele ia was suggested by Brown, but it was 
generically separated on account of the Rrgeg homology of es 2 glumes enclosing 
the fruit with the perigynium or utricle of Carex, which however has been since 
shown to be a mistake, The habit of te plant is indeed very diiéeent from that of 
the larger species of Scleria, being that of Schanus fat Ea but the difference is not 
greater than in Schenus, and, as in that t genus, there is too close a series of intermediate 
Species to justify a generic separation. 
d S. pygmeza, R. Br. Prod. 240.—A dwarf auem. aunual, 
rarely exceeding 2'in. Leaves ied Disco ees vii ito 1 in. long 
Spikelets unisexual, 1 to 13 lines long, very numerous in little axillary 
te . 
or 2 stamens. Female spikelet : Glumes usually 3, the inner ones 
lanceolate, acutely acuminate, finely several-nerved, quite entire but 
dilated on the middle, with membranous apricis enclosing the 
fruit; no empty glumes above the flower. Nut globular, about 4 line 
diameter, prominently 3-ribbed, tuberculate-rugose between the ribs. 
iak small, y ^ne, with 3 slight ly 1 bh c semi-circular lobes.— 
F. Muell . 22; Hypoporum pygme Nees in Linnea, ix. 303 ; 
Sp ‘Susi pygmeus, Beeckel. in jj nti pe xxxviii. 436. 
N. Australia. Port rt Darwin, Schultz. n 
n. 260. 
pQreenstand. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; Rockingham Bay, 
— Beeckeler, in the Linnza, xxxviii. io iit under m — of Diplaerum pyg- 
LO an African plant which he bere to be the same as Brown's Scleria pugnet, 
ut which has more the elongated habit of S. caricina, and diff ers essentially 
both in the minute nuts with several longitudinal raised nerves or pe 
Primary ones, otherwise quite smooth, and the disk very minute or quite obsolete. 
failed to recognise Brown's S. pygmæa in Schultz's specimens, " irobably from 
ist overlooked the male — which in an advanced stage of inflorescence are 
much pais Aus d. as - "runs tofind. Ihave seen them however in 
