Selena.] CLXXII. CYPEEACE^. (0. B. Clarke.) 689 



spikelets somewhat large lanceolate hairy, style 3-fid, nut small globose as 

 though softly glochidiate. Thw. Enum. 354 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 

 449. S. stricta, Moon. Cat. PI. Geyl. 62. Hypopomm capitatura, Nees in 

 Linnsea, ix. 303, & in Edinb. Phil. Journ. xvii. 267, & in Wight Gontrib. 

 118. 



CEYLON, Macrae, &c. DISTEIB. Borneo. 



In the Ceylon specimens Stems 4-8 in. Leaves lanceolate,, tip subobtuse. Head 

 globose, of about 12 spikelets. Spikelets all unisexual (not a ITypoporum), nearly 

 i in. long, ferruginous ; female glume mucronate. Nut about T ^ in. Disc minute, 

 patent, margin as long as contracted base of nut, pale, truncate scarcely 3-lobed. 

 The Ceylon specimens (not plentiful) have uniformly small 1-headed specimens, but 

 are a small form of a Borneo plant, which is a foot high with the lower axillary head 

 of spikelets remote. 



Sect. 2. Elatds. Eobust plants with thick (except in S. psilorrhiza) 

 woocly horizontal rhizome. Leaves (in many) caudate-setaceous at tip. 

 Partial panicles rigid, often pyramidal. Lobes of disc-margin entire [or 

 slightly digitate in 8. multifoliata]. 



* Sheaths (of middle stem-leaves) winged (sometimes in 8. elata, and 8. 

 chinensi-s obscurely). 



13. S. hebecarpa, Nees in LinnsBa, ix. 303, and in Wight Contrib. 

 117 ; scarcely robust, slightly hairy (see also var. /3), panicle thin scarcely 

 rigid, style 3-fid, nut minutely velvety, lobes of disc-margin lanceolate 

 thin brown concavely applied to nut. Thw. Enum. 435; Boeck. in Linnsea, 

 xxxviii. 478. S. alata, Moon Gat. PI. Geyl. 62. S. scrobiculata, ZolL 

 Verz. Archip. Ind. ii. 61 (not of Nees). S. stipularis, Thw. Enum. 353, 435 

 (not of Nees). Scleria, Wall. Gat. 3415. 



Throughout INDIA (except the N.W. arid region), alt. 0-5000 ft., and CEYLON, 

 common. DISTRIB. Malaya, China, Japan, Australia, Polynesia. 



Rhizome in. in diam., clothed by ovate striate dark-red scales. Stems usually 

 2-3 ft., occasionally taller ; sheaths (or some of them) usually distinctly 3-winged. 

 Leaves 1 ft., margins scabrous (cutting) in dried specimens more or less revolute, 

 usually long acuminate, occasionally subobtuse. Panicle 1 ft. long, oblong ; partial 

 panicles usually thin lax of few spikelets, but sometimes stouter pyramidal, their 

 bracts often much exsert conspicuous, but sometimes short. Spikelets all unisexual ; 

 fern. in., slightly scabrous scarcely hairy; fern, glume mucronate ; superior sterile 

 rudiment usually present. Nut T ^ in. long, ovoid, obscurely trigonous, narrowed at 

 apex, straw-colrd. or brown, nearly always obscurely reticulated, margins of reticu- 

 lations microscopically brown-hispid, or finally glabrate almost shining. Lobes of 

 disc margin as much as - height of nut. 



Var. pubescens (sp.), Stend. Syn. Cyp. 168 ; more hairy, sometimes softly 

 villous. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 400. S. vestita, Boeck. 1. c. xxxviii. 482. S. villosula, ' 

 Wall. Cat. 3114. S. sumatrensis, var. (3, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 344 (not ofRetz). 

 From Sikkim and Assam to Chota Nagpore, Malaya, China. Leaves often softly 

 villous beneath. Khachis of panicles very hairy. Spikelets sometimes hairy. 



14. S. Thomsoniana, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 479 ; robust, gla- 

 brous (even rhachis of panicle), partial panicles remote narrow slenderly 

 peduncled, style 3-fid, nut tessellated minutely hairy, lobes of disc-margin 

 3 very short thickened reflexed yellow-brown. S. khasiana, Boeck. Cyp. 

 Nov. ii. 29. Scleria, sp. 12, Herb. Ind. Or. II. f. et T. T. 



KHASIA HILLS ; on the southern slope, alt. 0-3000 ft., from Chela to Lakhat, 

 J. D. 11. 8f T. T., &c. MuNEYi'OOB, alt. 2500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 

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