682 CLXXII. CYPERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Mapania. 



slenderly striate pale brown. Pandanophyllum zeylanicum, Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii. part ii. 80 (partly}. 



ANDAMAN ISLDS. ; Heifer (Kew Distril. 6298), Kurz. 



Stolon long, rather slender, covered by ovate striate lax scales. Scales at base of 

 culm up to 2 in., very lax, striate, pale brown, with an ovate-oblong limb on one side 

 sometimes nearly 1 in. long. Leaves much softer than in Jtf. Kurzii ; margins re- 

 motely scabrous or almost smooth. Infl. of M. Kurzii, but much less rigid; 

 bracteoles loosely imbricate. Nut not seen. Closely allied to M. palustris. 



5. Itt, multispicata, G. B. Clarke ; scape 6 in. with head of 10-50 

 spikes, leaves 3-4 ft. by - in. margins strongly scabrous cutting, 

 bracteoles in. dark -brown, nut very small obovoid. Pandanophyllum 

 humile, Zoll. Verz. Ind. ArcUp. ii. 61 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 334 (not of 

 Hassk.). Hypolytrum compactum ? Mbritzi Verz. Zoll. Pft. 98. H. humile, 

 Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvii. 128 (mainly). 



SINGAPORE; Ridley. DISTRIB. Java. 



Head very much smaller than in the preceding species, about $ in. diam. when 

 youug. The species appears more allied to Sect. Pandanophyllum, but the spikes are 

 distinct in the head. 



Sect. III. PANDANOPHYLLUM (Genus), Hassle, in Tydsch. Nat. Vereen. 

 Ned. Ind. x. 118 (partly). Stem very short, leaves long. Lateral scapes 

 short or longish. Inflorescence (a corymb) congested into one ovoid or 

 oblong head [a second head rarely added in M. longa~\ ; bracts shorter or 

 little longer than spikes. Spikes of few (sometimes 1) spikelets ; upper 

 bracts passing into bracteoles. Nut as in sect. Halostemma. 



* Leaves gradually narrowed at base and apex. 



6. IH. Wallichii, G. B. Clarke ; scape 4-6 in. stout covered for its 

 length with scales, inflorescence a dense head 1-1^ in., ovoid or ellipsoid, 

 partial spikes all containing one spikelet only. Pand. palustre ("in- 



florescentidjuveni" contained ripe nuts), Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 xxxviii. pt. ii. 79 (not of Hassle.) Wall. Cat. 3541. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. DISTRIB. (Borneo. 



Leaves equitant, up to 3 ft. by f in., margins aculeolate. Bracts ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, thick, shorter than inn. Bracteoles % in., elliptic, obtuse, chafly, tough. 

 Squamellce and glumes a little shorter than bracteole, narrow -oblong. Nut in., 

 ovoid, ashy-black, beak hardly any. 



7. M. zeylanica, Benth. in Gen. PL iii. 1056 ; scapes 4-12 in. with 

 few scales close to base, leaves aculeate on margin to base, mature infl. 

 broad ovoid more or less compound, i.e. basal spikes containing several 

 spikelets, upper spikes with one spikelet. Pand. zeylanicum, Thw. Enum. 

 345 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii., pt. ii. 80 (excl. Andaman sp.) ; 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 138. Lepironia ceylanica, Miq. 111. Fl. Archip. 

 Ind. 61, t. 22 (spikes very young). 



CEYLON, Tkw., C.P. 3029. E. IND. PENINS., Rottler. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Resembles M. Wallichii, but spike shorter more compound. Leaves 2-3 ft. by 

 f in., aculeate on keel beneath, long-attenuate linear, margins aculeolate. In ft. iu 

 frt. rather more than ^ in." diam. Spikelets, glumes, and nut, as in M. Wallichii. 

 Style 3-fid and nut subglobose ; or (Boeckeler) 2-fid. 



8. BK immersa, Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 1056 ; scapes l-2 in. clothed 

 throughout by lanceolate leaf-like scales, leaves (except tip) only slightly 



