Selena.] CLXXII. CYPERACFJG. (C. B. Clarke.) 687 



payvula, Steud. Syn. Gyp. 169, 174. S. uliginosa, BoecTc. I. c. 471. Scleria, 

 Wall. Cat. 3405 A. 



Throughout INDIA (except the West arid area), alt. 0-8000 ft., frequent ; from 

 NEPAL and MUNEYPOOR to CEYLON and PEGU. DISTRIB. Malaya, China, Japan, 

 Austral. 



Roots often black-red. Stems 1-2 ft. Leaves 4-10 by scarcely i in., lanceolate, 

 subobtuse (not acutely setaceous) at tip, hardly scabrous, with white hairs or gla- 

 brate ; sheaths conspicuously winged or not. Panicle commonly straggling, lower 

 partial panicles on peduncles 0-5 in., narrow or condensed 1-2 in. long, but some- 

 times evolute more rigid subpyramidal. Fern, spikelets | in. long, ferruginous -green, 

 glabrous. Nut scarcely T ^ in. in diam., at first white, the raised reticulations 

 covered with minute ferruginous hairs, at last often nearly smooth shining white 

 shallowly reticulated. Disc small, salver-shaped, 3 lobes of margin triangular (rarely 

 lanceolate) reaching to - height of nut. 



6. S. biflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 573 ; slender, nearly glabrate, roots 

 fibrous, panicle elongate thin lower branches remote, style 3- fid, nut tessel- 

 late, lobes of disomargin lanceolate acute or subulate erect stout ferru- 

 ginous-brown.- S: Steudeliana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 344; Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxviii. 475. S. tessellata, Benth. Fl. HongJc. 399; Thw. Enum. 

 354, a (not /3) ; Eunth Enum. ii. 343 (partly). Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3405 B. 



LOWER BENGAL, Wallich ; Calcutta, C. B. Clarke ; Mudhopoor Jungle, 

 C. B. Clarke. CACHAR, Keenan. CEYLON, Walker. DISTRIB. Malaya, S. 

 China. 



Usually glabrous except the (so-called) ligule of leaf. Fern, glume scabrid on its 

 keel upwards, or smooth. Lobes of disc -margin reaching to i-| height of nut. 

 This may be regarded as a var. of S. tessellata (which it altogether resembles), only 

 differing in the lobes of the disc-margin. 



7. S. Stocksiana, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 474; nearly glabrous, 

 panicle elongate thin lower branches remote, style 3-fid, nut tessellate, lobes 

 of disc-margin short ovate ferruginous their edges reflexed auriculate. S. 

 tessellata (part), Herb. Ind. Or. Hook.f. & T. 



BOMBAY, Laiv. 



The examples show only panicles, without leaves or roots. Nut rather larger 

 and more glabrous than of S. tessellata. Disc dark red, glandular. May have a 

 horizontal rhizome, and be more nearly allied to S. junciformis. 



** Nut smooth or very obscurely reticulated. 



8. S. annularis, Kunih Enum. ii. 359 ; slightly hairy, rhizome 0, 

 panicles axillary remote oblong rigid, style 3-fid, nut ovoid stoney-white, 

 disc-margin truncate. Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 456. Hypoporum annu- 

 lare, Nees ms. (fide KuntK). 



N.-WEST INDIA, Royle. BENGAL, Griffith. CENTRAL INDIA; Chunda, DutMe. 

 MALABAR, Law. DISTRIB. China. 



Soots fibrous, dark-red. Stems 1-2 ft., slender or medium ; sheaths 3-winged, 

 hairy or glabrous. Leaves 4-8 by i in., lanceolate, tip subobtuse. Panicles axillary, 

 often 1 by ^ in., subspicate, secondary bracts conspicuously exsert. Spikelets gla- 

 brous, very like those of 8. tessellata,. Nut T ^ in., not apiculate, very smooth. 

 Disc obconic, as long as contracted nut-base, smooth, chestnut or reddish.' A well- 

 marked species, externally very like S. tessellata. 



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9. S. zeylanica ? Pair. Encycl. vii. 3 (excl. Madagasc.) ; slender, 

 nearly glabrous or thinly hairy, rhizome hardly any, panicles axillary 

 distant smallj fern, glumes glabrous, style 3-fid, nut small (mature) white 



