TABULA 3020. 
ASCOLEPIS GRACILIS, Turvill. 
CYPERACEAE. Tribus HYPOLYTREAE. 
A. gracilis, Turrill ; species nova flore seta posteriore 1 mm. longa 
instructo valde distincta. 
Planta annua, caespitosa. Culmi erecti, usque ad 13 cm. alti, 
graciles, teretes, glabri, straminei. Folia linearia, subtriquetra, apice 
obtusa, usque ad 8 cm. longa, 0-5 mm. lata, glabra. Inflorescentia 
capitata, usque ad 8 mm. longa, 5mm. diametro ; bracteae 3, inaequales, 
circiter 5 mm., 3 mm., et 0:75 mm. longae, foliis similes. Glumae 
inferiores usque ad 1-75 mm. longae, 1 mm. latae, acuminatae ; glumae 
- superiores 2°75 mm. longae, 0-5 mm. latae, apice longe acuminatae, 
alis nucem involventibus ; setae posteriores 1 mm. longae. Stamina 
in quogue flore solitaria vel duo, filamentis 1 mm. longis. Stylus cum 
ramis tribus 0-5 mm. longis 1 mm. longus. Nu trigona, 0-75 mm. alta, 
0-3 mm. diametiens, grisea.—Scirpus squarrosus, Linn., var. svamensts, 
C. B. Clarke ex Hosseus in Bot. Centralb. 1910, 2, vol. xxvii. p. 460. 
Ascolepis sp. n., Turrill ex Craib in Kew Bulletin, 1912, p. 425. 
Inpo-Cutna: Siam; Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, in marshy ground 
by a stream, 540 m., Kerr 2261; Wang Djao, Hosseus 101. 
Tropica, West Arrica: Nigeria; Nupe, Barter 761, pro parte. 
cases composed of from three to five sessile heads. In one at least 
of Kerr’s specimens the writer has seen a : 
and in the larger specimens collected by Dr. Hosseus the heads are 
distinctly three-lobed. A few of the heads in Barter’s specimens are 
distribution of this plant. It is undoubtedly a native of Siam. 
the same time the only reason for thinking that there may have been 
some mistake in connection with th 
