904 CXLVl. CiTEnAC'EiE. 



acute or obtusely acuminate, rigid, 3-nerved, with involute scaberulous 

 margins : sheaths trigonous, closed, the mouth truncate. Spikelets 

 solitary or in small clusters on the branches of narrow erect terminal 

 :ind subterminal sparingly branched panicles 2-3 in. long; bracteoles 

 hliPorm. Fruiting spikelets Jjj in. long. Glumes 3, broadly ovate, 

 acuminate, dark brown. Disk-lobes small, thick, triangular, obtuse, 

 creamy-white. Nut globose, -^ in. in diam., tessellately cancellate in 

 vertical lines, top rounded, not beaked, white, not or rarely puberulous 

 with reddish hairs on the ridges. El. B. I. v. 6, p. 686 ; Boeck. in 

 LinuEca, v. 38 (1874) p. 470 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 5, p. 98 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 432 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1132. 



Konkan: near PAnvel, Jacquemonfl — Distrib. Throughout India (except the West 

 arid area) ; Ceylon, Malaya, China, Japan, Australia. 



4, Scleria hebecarpa, Nees, in Linmea, v. 9 (1835) p. 303. Ehizome 

 woody, nodose ; root-fibres stout ; stem 2-3 ft. long or more, triquetrous. 

 Leaves 10-12 by -i— i- in., narrowed to the obtuse tip, multistriate, flat, 

 3-nerved, rigid, usually with scabrous margins ; sheaths trigonous, 

 closed, the mouth truncate, with an ovate coriaceous pubescent ligule, 

 tjie sheaths of the middle stem-leaves winged. Spikelets all unisexual, 

 solitary or in- small clusters on the suberect branches of narrow terminal 

 and subterminal sparingly branched panicles 2-3 in. long ; bracts 2-4 in. 

 long, leaf-like ; bracteoles filiform, l-f in. long. Fruiting spikelets i in. 

 long. Grlumes 3, the upper broadly ovate, cuspidate. Disk-lobes tri- 

 angular-ovate, acute, with a broad sinus, \-^ the height of the nut. 

 Nut -1 in. long, globose or broadly ovoid, obscurely trigonous, apiculate, 

 white, smooth, polished. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 689 ; Boeck. in Linnoca, v. 33 

 (1874) p. 478 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 99 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 432. 



Konkan : Stocks I, Law ! Kanara : N. Kanara, Talhot ex Woodrmo. — Distrtb. 

 Throughout India (except the N.W. arid region) ; Ceylon, Malaj-a, China, Japan, 

 Australia, Polynesia. 



5. Scleria biflora, Roxh. Fl. Ind. v. 3 (1832) p. 573. Eoot fibrous ; 

 stems tufted, 1-2 ft. long, trigonous, slender, leafy. Leaves 6-10 by 

 \-\ in., ensiform, obtuse or subacute, thin, flat, 3-nerved, the mari^ins 

 smooth or scaberulous ; sheaths loose, closed, trigonous, the mouth 

 truncate. Spikelets solitary or in small clusters on the branches of 

 slender, erect, terminal and subterminal, sparingly branched panicles 

 2-3 in. long ; bracteoles filiform, i-| in. long. Fruiting spikelets -jL in, 

 long. Glumes 3, broadly ovate, acuminate. Disk 3-lobed, the lobes 

 ovate, acuminate, large, often half the length of the nut, reddish-brown. 

 Nut globose, -jJtj in. in diam., tessellately cancellate in vertical lines, 

 pubescent on the ridges with reddish-brown hairs, shortly beaked, white. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 6, p. 687 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 99 ; Woodr. iu Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 432; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1132. Scleria 

 >Meudeliana, Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. v. 3 (1859) p. 344 ; Boeck. in Linnaea, 

 V. 38(1874) p. 475.— Flowers: Dec, 



Closely allied to 8. iesselhtta, from which it differs in the leaves which 

 are broader, in the disk-lobes which are much larger, and in the nut 

 which is b(^aked, 



Ko.n-kan: Matlioran, Woodrov, 77 !— DistkU!. India (N. & E. BcuKal, Cacbar, 

 AV. Peninsula) ; Ccyluu, Malr.yu, S. (.niina. 



