368 CYPERACE. [ ScuERta. 
solitary or in small clusterg on the branches of a narrow erect ter- 
minal panicle. Fruiting glumes about 3 in. long, broadly ovate, 
keeled, acuminate, ferruginous green. Nuwt broadly ellipsoid } in. 
jong, white, with close raised mainly longitudinal reticulations, disk 
straw-colored with 3 obtuse lpbes. 
Central India (Wingate), Indore. Duistris.: Throughout India except 
the North-West, Malaya, China, Japan, Australia. 
2. S. annularis, Kunth. Enum. II (1837), 359; F. B. I. vi, 
687 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii, 903. 
Closely resembles S. tessellata. Leaf-sheaths winged, the angles with 
minute downward directed spinules, the mouth with a short trian- 
gular prolongation. Spikelets in the partial inflorescence more 
densely spicate. Glumes with scabrid keel. Nut smooth, seated on 
a brown disk with truncate margin. 
Saugor (Witt). DistRip.: Central and S. W. India, China. 
8. §. hebecarpa, Nees in Linnea IX (1835), 303; F. B. I. vi, 
689 ; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1133; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ti, 904. 
Rhizome = in. diam. woody, clothed with ovate striate dark red scales. 
Stem 2-3 ft. high. Leaves 12 in. long +-4 in. broad, long acuminate, 
sheaths winged, scabrid, mouth with an ovate hairy prolongation. 
Spikelets solitary or in small clusters on the suberect branches of a 
narrow terminal sparingly branched panicle, bracts long filiform, 
Fruiting glumes 3, broadly ovate, cuspidate, the uppermost 4 in. 
long.: Nut 4 in. long, broadly ovoid, obscurely trigonous, apiculate, 
white, polished, minutely hairy when young, disk pale brown, lobes 
triangular-ovate, acute 4-4 the length of the nut. 
Dehra Dun (Duthie) 2443. Distr1z.: Throughout India except the 
N. W., Malaya, China, Australia. 
4, S. elata, Thw. Enum. (1864), 353; F. B. I. vi, 690; Prawn, 
Beng. Pl. 1133. 
Rhizome stout, woody. Stem 3-5 it. Leaves 12-20 by 4-2 in. narrowed 
into a long filiform tip, scabrid on the veins and margins, sheaths 
triquetrous or winged, mouth with a very short rounded hairy pro- 
longation. Spikelets subsolitary, very numerous on the spreading 
branches of a large stiff pyramidal panicle, bracts long,linear-filiform. 
Fruiting glumes 3, very: broadly ovate, slightly keeled, cuspidate, 
