Gahnia."] CLXXII. CYPERACEJE. (C.B.Clarke.) 6*7 



61. Syzyganthus multiflorus, Steud. Syn. Gyp. 153. Schcenus panicu- 

 latus, Hassle. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 296 (not of Burm.). S. Hasskarlii, Steud 

 I. c. 166. 



MALAY ISLANDS ; from Sumatra to Fiji. 



Nearly glabrous. Stem often 3 ft., terete. Leaves often nearly as long as stem, 

 5-5 in. wide, tip caudate very scabrous. Panicle 12 by 3 in., dense ; branches from 

 each lower sheath usually several (sometimes 15) ; lower bracts long, similar to 

 leaves. Spikelets nearly \ in., when young lanceolate ; lower flower sterile or male 

 or wanting. Lower glumes 3-4, keeled, mucronate ; upper glumes 3-2, when young 

 very small, ultimately enlarged hardened, f as long as the uppermost keeled glume. 

 Stamens in lower flower 4, in the upper 3 ; filaments persistent ultimately elongate 

 and brown, often retaining the nut. 



Var. penangensis ; lowest bract shorter, often not half length of panicle, panicle 

 looser, branches finally nodding (not in suberect clusters). Penang, alt. 3000 ft., 

 G. King. Perak, alt. 6500 ft., Wray. Malacca ; Punnus, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 6305). 



20. HBBXmEA, Aullet. 



A glabrous perennial. Stem short, with numerous long leaves. Spikes 

 cligitately capitate ; bracts long. Spikelets densely sessile, 1-fld. Glumes 

 4, imbricate laxly on all sides, small, ovate-triangular, three lowest empty 

 green striate, uppermost nerveless containing a perfect quasi-terminal 

 flower. Hypogyoous bristles 0. Stamens 3, unilateral. Style linear, 

 smooth ; base not dilated ; branches 3, linear. Jftut oblong-ellipsoid, tri- 

 gonous, smooth ; style deciduous. 



The flower is here really axillary, the continuation of the axis suppressed at an 

 early stage. The plant is allied to the Rynchosporece, as Bentham has it. 



R. maritima, Aubl. PI. Guian. i. 45, t. 16 ; stem nearly covered 

 by sheaths of leaves (i.e. head sessile) or only covered near base (i.e. head 

 peduncled). Beauv. FL d' Owar. ii. 22, t. 73; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 xlv. (1876), pt. ii. 15S ; Boerlc. in Linncea, xxxv. 435. R. pedunculata, Br. 

 Prodr. 236 ; Thw. Enum. 345. B. Wightiana, Nees in Wight Gontrib. 92. 

 H. disticophylla, Bo&.fc. iu Flora, xli. 410. Mariscus capitatus, Zoll. .Verz. 

 2nd. Archip. ii. 63. Lipocarpha foliosa, ^[;i[. '.'i'1. Ind. Bat. iii. 337 ; Kurz Fl. 

 Bangka, 224. Cyperna, Wall. Gat. 3378. 



Sea-coasts. CANAKA ; Talbot. TEXASSEEIM; Heifer; MALACCA, Griffith; Nico- 

 BABS, Kurz; &c. CEYLON j Thu-aites (C.P. 3227.) DISTRIB. All tropical sea- 

 coasts. 



Rhizome up to 2 ft. Stems distant, or tufted from the branched head of 

 rhizome, 2-6 in., subtrigouous, smooth. Leaves often longer than stem, narrow, 

 rigid, curved nearly smooth. Bracts 2-6, paUmt, 1-3 in., leaf-like. Spikes about 

 in. long, ellipsoid, of about 3J spikelets, dirty straw-colrd. Spikelets in., ellipsoid. 

 ^ ui f glume, cbestnut-colrd. ; outermost cells minute, rouud-hexngonalj often, 

 porose (i.e nut puncticulate.) 



21. HYPOllTTRtTM, L. C. Sick. 



with some nodes far above the base. Leaves flat, somewhat thin, 

 3-nerved, narrowed gradually at each end. Spikes panic-led,, branches 

 rigid ; bracts long, leaf- like. Spikelets without glumes interposed between 

 the two opposite basal -fh ales and the terminal pistil except in H. twrgidum 



