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2. Y. GLOMEitATA, Laui. 111. I. 150. Annual liairy, no rhizome. 

 Stems 4 to 16 inches tall. Leaves narrow linear acuminate 1-3 inches 

 long I inch wide. Spikelcts in 1 to 3, clusters of 3 to 10, | inch long. 

 lUumes obovate oblong with a stout hairy nuicro. Bracts usually 

 short }y to 1 inch. Hypogynous scales clawed witli a broad quadrate, 

 cordate limb with 3 ribs brown glabrous or nearly so, as long as the 

 nut. Style tritid. Nut triquetrous rather long stalked with a small 

 cylindric beak. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 3)^8. Boeck. Linnaea. 

 XXXVII. lo:. Clarke FL Brit. Ind. \\. iSm. Trimen. Fl. Ceyl. 



V. 79. F. canescens, Yahl. Enum. II. 385. F. ciliaris, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. I. ISO. /': Rottboellii, Xees. Wight. Contrib. 91. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. III. 339. Scirpus ciliaris, Linn. Mant. 182. liottb. Descr. & le. 

 oo. t. IT. L 1. tS, pilosus, Iietz. Obs. VI. 19 (not Tliunb). S. aris- 

 talas, Willd. Sp. PI. I. 300. 



Perak (Kunstler 2-151) ; Province Wcllesley : Permatang Bertam 

 (Pidley T009) ; Lankawi (Ridley). Distrib.' Tropics of the Old 

 World. Occurs in rice-lields, 



10. LiPOCAUPiiA, Br. 



Glabrous plants with stout or no rhizome. Stems leafy only at 

 the base, bearing a single terminal bead of few spikelets. Glumes 

 numerous narrow. Flowers Avith 3 elliptic transparent scales as long 

 as the nut enclosing it. Stamens 3 to 1. Anthers small not crested. 

 Style small and slender, shortly biiid (rarely tritid). Xut suuill 

 oblong cylindric or ovoid plano-convex reticulated black or yellow. 



Species 15. All warm regions, most in Africa. 



Spikelets white, glumes spathulate acute . . 1. L. ar gen tea. 

 Spikelets green, glumes artistate .. .. 3. L. inicroccphala. 



1. L. ARGEXTEA, A. Br. Appendix to Tuckey's voyage to Congo, 

 159. Tufted or solitary stemmed plant. Leaves at the base and for 

 about ^ of the stem 4-10 inches long | inch or less wide at base acu- 

 minate. Stems 18-24 inches long terete. Head of 1 to 8 oblong 

 obtuse white spikelets l-J inch long. Bracts narrow 4 inches long or 

 less. Glumes oblong spathulate narrow, tip short acute, white with a 

 green central line. Style trihd. Scales lanceolate acute as long as 

 style. Xut cylindric straight reticulate yellow. Boeck. Linnaea. 

 XXXVII. 114 (excl. American specimens). Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. 



VI. 067. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 81. L. laevigata, Xees. Wight. Contrib. 

 92. Hi/ poet y pill Di argenteum, Valil. Enum. II. 383. Tunga laevi- 

 gata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 183. KyUinga albescens, Steud. Svn. Cvp. 68. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ILL 394. 



Singapore (Kurz 3020), (Kunstler 109), Tangliu (Ridley •jS) ; 

 Jolior: 'J ana Mei-ah Johor (Ridley); Malacca: xVy^^i" P^nias (Good- 

 enough); Xegri Scmbilan: Bukit Sulu (Cantley's Coll.); Penang 



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