ScLeRia. | UYPERACEZ, 367 
spreading. Glumes ;5-$ in. long, spathulate-oblanceolate, apex 
triangular, keel not prominent, sides hyaline with minute dark 
specks and streaks. Scales nearly as long as the glume, twice as 
long as the nut, longitudinally nerved and easily torn into fibrous 
shreds. Nut zy in. long, subcylindrjc, slightly widened upwards, 
obscurely trigonous, brown, microscopically closely punctate. 
Dehra Dun (Duthie) Saharanpur (Royle). Distrip.: Along the 
Himalaya 1-6,000 ft. from the Kangra district to Assam. Tropical 
and subtropical Old World. 
14. SCLERIA, Berg.; Fi. Brit. Ind. vi, 685. 
Annual or more usually perennial herbs. Stems trigonous, leafy, 
Leaves grass-like usually with cutting scabrid edges. Spikelets 
dimorphous, androgynous or unisexual, solitary or clustered on 
the branches of a panicle, rarely spicate or capitate, primary 
bracts leaf-like, secondary filiform, Androgynous spikelets with 
one female flower below and a few male above; female spikelet 
similar but upper portion reduced to a small rudiment pressed 
against the nut or 0 when the female flower appears terminal, 
Glumes 2-4 empty below the female glume or in the male spike- 
lets 2 empty below the male glumes. Stamens 1-3, anthers often 
mucronate. ASiyle linear, deciduous, stigmas 3. Nut bony, shin- 
ing, gynophore usually prominent, apex dilated often into a 3- 
toothed saucer. Species 150, in most warm regions. 
Annuals with fibrous roots. 
Disk 3-lobed, nut with raised reticulations . 1. S. tessellata. 
Disk entire, nut smooth . f : . 2. S. annularvis. 
Perennials with woody rhizomes. 
Panicle lax, branches ascending, nut smooth 3. S. hebecarpa. 
Panicle dense, branches stiff, spreading, nut 
reticulate . : , : ‘ . 4. 8S, elata. 
1. S. tessellata, Willd. Sp. Pl. IV (1805), 315; F. B. I. wi, 
686 ; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1133; Cooke, Fl, Bomb, ti, 903. / 
Annual, root fibrous, the fibres nearly black. Siems 1-2 ft. high, 
rather slender, hairy or glabrate. Leaves 6-12 in. long, + in. broad 
or less. sheaths more or less winged, the mouth truncate. Sptkelets 
