660 CLXXII. CYPEBACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Scirpus. 



L c. 2131.. - S. cemulans, Sfoud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. ArcJiip. ii. 62, & Syn. Cyp. 

 87 (partly}. S. maritimus, var. aemulans, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 306. ' S. 

 canaliculato-triqueter, Steud. 1. c. 318. S. Griffith!!, Boeck., and S. sca- 

 berrinius, Boeck. in Ftora, xli. 595. Hymenocheete grossa, Nees in Edinb. 

 N. Phil -Journ. [1834] '264, & in Wight Contrib. 110. H. maxima, Nees 

 in Linn&a, ix. 293. ,Isolepis maxima, Dietr. Sp. PI. ii. 130. Scirpus, 

 Wall. Cat. 3470. 



Throughout INDIA '(except the N.W.), alt. 0-2000 ft. ; from SIND and ASSAM to 

 CEYLOX and MALACCA. DISTRIB. Malaya, Tonkin, Philippines. 



Glabrous, or glumes with pedicels minutely puherulous-scabrous. Stem 3-9 ft., 

 thick at base, roots fibrous often in water or mud ; stolons not rarely added. Leaves 

 often -| length of stem, stout, broad, keeled, serrate-edged. Corymb often 8-16 in. 

 in diana., supradecoinpound ; bracts several, divaricate, lowest up to 3 ft., leaf-like. 

 Spikelets sessile and pedicelled, ^ in. long, ovoid, brown, dense-fld. Glumes ovate, 

 obtuse with a minute mucro. Bristles 6 or fewer, in type as long as nut, linear, 

 brown, scabrid or setose by short unicellular hairs, but not rarely bristles depau- 

 perated very short smooth, in form 8. maximus. Stamens 3 ; anthers scarcely 

 crested. Style long. Nut scarcely glume, minutely beaked by style -base con- 

 fluent with nut. 



Var. KYSOOE (sp.), Roxb. 1. c. 230; glumes more mucronate, bristles 6, villous 

 or almost plumose by numerous multicellular hairs. Rynchospora Kysoor, Dietr. Sp. 

 PI. ii. 74. Hymenochaete Kysoor, Nees (cf . note in Wight Contrib. 110). Assam, 

 Jenkins. Bengal, Griffith, &c. Chota Nagpore, alt. 2000 ft., C. B. Clarke. Bombay, 

 Dalzell. Stolons fide Roxburgh Icon sometimes bearing black tubers ' in. in 

 diarn. 



Sect. 4. BLYSMUS (Genus), Panzer in Eoem. & Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. 41. 

 Medium or slender plants. Spikelets closely spicate. Style long. 



* Stem with leaf-bearing nodes above the base, style 2-fid. 



18. S. Cartels, Retz Fl. Scand. 11 ; spikelets subdistichously closely 

 spicate or densely subpaniculate, bristles 6 much longer than the nut, 

 nut smooth ashy-black narrowed at both ends (but see var.). S. 

 compressus, Pers. Syn. i. 66; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 707. Schoenus 

 compressus, Linn. Sp. PI. 65. Blysmus compressus, Panzer in Innk. Sort. 

 Berol. i. 278 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 36, t. 293. Leptolepis tibetica, 

 Boeck. Gyp. Nov. heft. i. 31. 



W. HIMALAYA and W. TIBET, alt. 7-15,000 ft. ; from LEH, Stoliczlca, to KUMAON, 

 Duthie. PHAEEE (N.E. Sikkim), G. King. DISTRIB. Europe, W. and Centr. 

 Asia. 



Glabrous. Rhizome creeping, divided. Stems 4-8 in., leafy below, angular 

 striate or terete. Leaves often as long as stems, linear. Spike, in type form, 

 12 in., dense ; lowest bract short, or much overtopping spike. Spikelets usually 

 distichous, sometimes on all sides the rhachis (lowest sometimes remote) in. long, 

 6-9-fld., brown. Glumes ovate-triangular, subacute, concave, several-nerved. Eha- 

 chilla of spikelet compressed at base, somewhat zigzag, lowest fl. somewhat distant 

 from next above nearly as in Schoenus. Bristles slender, minutely retrorse-scabrous, 

 red-brown. Stamens 3 ; anthers with a linear-lanceolate red cret. Style long, 

 slender. Nut % glume, compressed or plano-convex; outermost cells small, obscure. 



Var. brevifolia (sp.), Decne in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 173, t. 173 ; stems 1-2 .ft. 

 with nodes and leaves above the middle, spikelets scarcely distichous lowest some- 

 what distant. Strachey Cat. PI. Kumaon, 73. West Himalaya ; Chini, Jacquemont. 

 W. Tibet, alt. 13,000 ft., Stoliczka. Glumes often scarcely striate. Bristles and 

 nut as in S. Caricis typ. A trifling var. 



