Hypolytrum.'] CLXXII. cYrERACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 679 



CANARA; Dalzell. MALABAR or CONCAN; Stocks. WYNAAD; Goodaloor, 

 King. NICOBABS ; Kurz. 



Distributed in Herb. H. f. and T. as a local form of H. latifolium, which it 

 closely resembles. The nut is usually glandular-punctate, pitted rugose or nearly 

 smooth. 



3. H. turgidum, (7. B. Clarke; stem stout, leaves long -f in. 

 broad, panicle compound dense, spikelets often of three glumes (besides 

 the bracteole), style 2-fid, fertile nut large brown purple punctate, beak 

 small or hardly any. H. latifolium, Thw. Enum. 346 (partly). 



CEYLON, Central Province, alt. 3000 ft., Thtvaites (C.P. 3). 



Thwaites subsequently (in ms.) separated this as a distinct species. The two 

 boat-shaped squamellse are lateral (as in all the Mapaniece) ; the third extra glume 

 is flat concave thin without keel on the anterior side of the spikelet within the 

 squamellffi. A similar extra glume occurs frequently in several of the large American 

 Hypolytrece ; thus indicating an approach to Thoracostachyum. 



4. H. penang ense, G. B. Clarke ; stem stout, leaves long |-f in. 

 broad, panicle compound of 100 spikes, young spikes i by in. linear 

 c;ylindric. 



PENANG ; Maingay (Kew Distril. 1720). 



Imperfectly known from a joung example ; but the young spikes differ much 

 from those of H. latifoUum at the same point of development. 



5. H, trinervium, Kunth Enum. ii. 272 ; stem somewhat slender, 

 leaves \-\ in. broad, bracteoles broad-oblong obtuse entire brown not 

 scarious-margined, style 2-fid, nut small black-purple, beak conical pale 

 nearly as long as nut. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 332 and III. Fl. Archip. Ind. 

 59. 



" EAST INDIES " (Herb. Willdenow). 



Altogether slenderer than H. latifolium, to which Boeckeler refers it as a weak 

 example. Stem 16 in.; cauline leaves 1 or 2 remote. Panicle 1-1 ^ in. diam., with 

 25 spikes. Spikes in fruit scarcely in. diam., themselves their glumes (bracteoles) 

 and nuts much smaller than in H. latifolium. Nut (with its beak) less than -^ in. ; 

 beak straw -colrd., densely covered with round red glands. 



6. H. proliferum, BoecTc. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 126 ; stem somewhat 

 slender, leaves - in. broad, bracteoles oblong-obovate brown upper 

 margin conspicuously white-scarious lacerate, style 2-fid, nut small dusky 

 brown, beak conical dusky brown rather shorter than nut. 



SINGAPORE ; Wichura, Ridley. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Rhizome woody, obliquely descending (not "proliferous-branched " as described 

 by Boeckeler). Stem 16 in., cauline leaves 1 or 2 remote. Panicle 1-H i n - diam., 

 with 20 spikes. Young spikelets % by $ in., cylindric, glistening white (broad 

 scarious margins of bracteoles covering up the brown bases). Spikelets in fruit 

 diam., subglobose. Nut ovoid, scarcely in. long, nearly smooth.^ Very like H. 

 trinervium, except as to the conspicuously scarious bracteoles. 



7. H. long-irostre, Thw. Enum. 346; stem 12-20 in., corymb rigid, 

 bracteoles hard subacute, one (or more) squamella often interposed between 

 the two basal male squamellee and pistil, style 2-fid, beak longer than nut 

 conic acute pale not grooved. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii. pt. 

 ii. 75; Boech. in Linnaea,. xxxvii. 128. H. latifolium y minor, Kurz I.e. 74 

 (partly, not of L. G. Rich.). 



CEYLON; Thwaites (C.P. 3468.) 



Stolons long, slender, clothed by small red-brown scales, hardening into a 



