662 CLXXII. CTPEKACE-E. (0. B. Clarke.) [Scirpus. 



2-4 times nut, slender, brown, smooth below, near apex thickened papillose-scabrous. 

 Anthers not crested. Nut small, -j-f glume, shortly beaked. 



22. S. chinensis, Munro in Seem. Sot. Voy. Herald, 423; spikelets 

 clustered, bristles 3 slender or 0, style 2-tid, nut compressed ovoid apiculate 

 smooth pale. BentTi. Fl. HongTc. 395. S. sylvaticus, Strachey Cat. PI. 

 Kumaon, 73. S. ternatanus, Reinw.; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 307. S. 

 Ericphorum var. conglomeratus, Soeck. in Herb. Berol. Hypolytrum, 

 Wall. Cat. 3404 D (partly}. 



From CHUMBA and KUMAON, alt. 0-5500 ft. Strachey 8f Winterbottom to 

 MUNEYPOOE, Watt, and MABTABAN, Wallich. DISTBIB. China, Benin Isles. 



Glabrous, except ultimate rays of umbel. Stems 2-7 ft., solitary, in swamps 

 often stoloniferous. Leaves long, often overtopping stem, $ in. broad, scabrous on 

 margins and keel. Umbel 4-8 in. diam., divaricate ; bracts several, lowest up to 

 20 in. Spikelets in clusters of 3-15, small, about ^ in., many-fld., ellipsoid, obtuse, 

 brown. Glumes concave, ovate, obtuse. Bristles often 0, sometimes 3, rarely 5, 

 overtopping nut, as long as glume, ultimately scarcely elongate not twisted (spikelets 

 riot comose), smooth, minutely papillose-scabrous near the top. Stamens 2, rarely 

 3 ; anthers scarcely crested. Nut % glume, smooth or sometimes microscopically 

 verrucose. The leaf-sheaths are long, occasionally perforated at base by descending 

 shoots (aerial stolons) covered with small ovate scales. 



Sect. 6. MICHELIANI. Low, tufted, leafy. Spikelets small, in a single 

 head, bracts long. Glumes scarcely acute, not notched. Bristles 0. Style 

 long, or branches long, continuous with the smooth nut. 



23. S. kyllingrioides, BoecJc. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 733 ; spikelets very 

 small, style 3-fid, nut oblong-obovoid obtuse smooth brown or black. 

 Isolepis kyllingioides, A. Rich. Tent, Fl. Abyss, ii. 502. Kyllinga micro- 

 cephala, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 70 (excl. the Obs.). 



DEHBA DHOON ; Vicary. MT. ABOO, alt. 3000 ft., and GOONA, King. SATJGOR ; 

 Vicary. HYDBABAD ; Campbell. CANAEA ; Young. DISTEIB. Trop. Africa. 



Glabrous. Stems 4-10 in., slender, base thickened, sometimes with slender long 

 stolons. Leaves -f stem, very narrow, green. Head \ in. diam., of 5-15 spikelets ; 

 bracts 1-3 in., leaf -like. Stamens 2 (3 fide Boeckeler); filaments scabrous; anthers 

 short oblong, not crested. Style slender, not longer than nut, branches long (some- 

 times 2 fide Boeckeler). Nut i glume, equally trigonous or subcompressed, minute 

 apiculate ; outermost cells subhexagonal, ultimately often punctate. Easily known 

 from the next species by its small head of very small spikelets, but is very like a 

 small Kyllinga. 



24. S. DXichelianus, Linn. Sp. PI. 76 ; spikelets numerous densely 

 compound-capitate, style 2-fid (very rarely 3-fid), nut oblong or narrowly 

 obovoid subacute smooth yellow-brown. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 43, t. 

 312; Boeck. in Flora, liv. 158, 359. Isolepis Micheliana, Roem. & Sch. 

 Syst. ii. 114 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 29, 30, t. 2, fig. 11. 

 Cyperus pygmaeus, var. /3, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 494 ; Bentk. in Gen. PI. 

 iii. 1044 (partly). C. diff usus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 189 (excl. syn.). C. musarius, 

 Herb. Ham. ; Wall. Cat. n. 3325 A. Dichostylis Micheliana, .Nees in WigU 

 Contrib. 94. Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3484 A, B. 



Throughout BEITISH INDIA; from Kashmir to Tenasserim, common. DISTEIB. 

 Europe, Asia, Algeria. 



Annual, tufted, glabrous. Stems 1-8 in., triquetrous. Leaves often longer than 

 stem. Head |-f in. diam., bracts several long leaf-like. Spikelets - in. ; rhachilla 

 of spikelet marked spirally by the lozenge-shaped scars. Stamens usually 2 ; anthers 

 hardly crested. Style about as long as nut. Nut % glume, shortly pyramidal at 



