Scirpus.] CLXXII. CYPERACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 657 



Style slender ; branches 3, long. Nut nearly half as long as glume, alraqit symmetric- 

 trigonous, faces concave. 



10. S. quinquefarius, Ham. in Wall. Gat. 3465 ; steins medium or 

 slender terete nearly leafless, spikelets 1-9 in a single lateral dense head, 

 glumes broadly ovate acute inflated in fru.it, bristles 0, style 3-fid, nut 

 obovoid triquetrous faintly transversely wavy black. Boeck. in Linnsea, 

 xxxvi. 701. Isolepis lupulina and I. Roylei, Nees in Wight Gontrib. 

 107. 



NORTHERN INDIA, from RAWUL PINDEE, Aitchison, SIND, Pinwill, and CENTRAL 

 INDIA, King, to ASSAM, Wallich $ Griffith. DISTRIB. Turkestan, Cabul, Trans- 

 vaal. 



Soot fibrous. Stems 2-12 in., often (when dry) transversely septate. SpiTcelets- 

 shining straw-brown. Glumes many-ribbed, sometimes laxly spiral, sometimes 5- 

 ranked. Nut with interrupted paler transverse lines. Very nearly allied to 8. 

 articulatus ; but in the fruiting spikelets the glumes are looser inflated more shining, 

 reminding Nees of hops (whence his name lupulina). 



11. S. nmcronatus, Linn. Sp. PI. 73; stems medium or robust 

 triquetrous nearly leafless, spikelets in a single lateral dense head, glumes 

 ovate subacute, bristles 5 or 6 unequal, style 3-fid, nut obovoid trigonous 

 shining black smooth scarcely transversely wavy. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 viii. 40, t. 303 ; BoecJe. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 703. S. muticus, Don Prodr. 

 41. S. triangulatus, Eoxh. Fl. Ind. i. 217 ; Nees in Wight Gontrib. 111. 

 S. javanus, Nees I. c. 112. S. sunclanus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 304. S. 

 mysurensis, Herb. Heyne ; Wall. Cat. 3467. 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Europe, Madagascar, warmer Asia, 

 Australia. 



Hoots fibrous or a short horizontal rhizome. Stems 8-30 in. ; sheaths triangular- 

 lanceolate membranous at top on one side. Lowest bract ^-4 in., as though a con- 

 tinuation of the stem, trigonous. Spikelets ~j in., pale or (especially in the hills) 

 chestnut- coir d. Glumes keeled, many-ribbed, not notched at top, margins glabrous 

 or minutely scabrous-hairy. Bristles retrorsely scabrous, two longer ones nearly 

 as long as nut. Nut somewhat compressed, as long as glume. 



12. S. eorymbosus, Heyne ex Roth. Nov. Sp. PL 28; stems stout 

 terete leafless, spikelets clustered on rays of a lateral umbel, glumes ovate 

 acute mucronate, bristles 0, style 3-fid, nut obovoid trigonous black smooth 

 or with faint transverse lines. Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 706. S. incli- 

 natus, Delile; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 381. S. bangalorensis, Herb. Heyne ; 

 Wall. Cat. 3464. Isolepis corymbosa, Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 110, and Mant. 

 ii. 65 ; Nees in Wight Gontrib. 108. I. inclinata, Barbey Levant, t. 8, fig. 9. 

 Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3471, 3472. 



WESTERN INDIA; Sincl, Pinwill. MOUNT ABOO and GOONAH, King. JUBBUL- 

 PORE, Beddome. HYDERABAD, Campbell. BANGALORE, Wallich. Africa, Mada- 

 gascar. 



Rhizome 2-4 in., horizontal. Stems approximate, 3 ft., at base in. in diam. 

 Umbel simple or compound, rays usually short sometimes 5 in. long ; lowest bract 

 ^-4 in., suberect, hardly simulating a continuation of stem. Spikelets % \ in., 

 rusty. Glumes faintly striate, glabrous, not notched at top. Nut scarcely as 

 long as glume, pyramidal at top. S. supinus, var. uninodis differs by having leaves 

 and nut more obtuse. 



** Nut smooth or obscurely reticulate (outer cells of nut subquadrate or, 

 if longitudinally oblong, arranged jis brick-wall parenchyma). Glumes 

 notched at top, except in S. grossus. Bristles 7-2, rarely 0. 



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