692 CLXXII. CYPERACE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Scleria. 



KHASIA and NAGA HILLS, and MUNEYPOOB, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H.$T. T., 

 C. S. Clarice, Watt. 



Rhizome f- in. in diam., covered by small ovate striate black -red scales. Stems 

 3 ft., glabrous. Leaves up to 1 ft. by in., tip setaceous, glabrous or hairy ; sheath 

 usually wingless or occasionally distinctly 3-winged. Spikelets nearly as in 8. elata. 

 Nut f in. long, young white shallowly tessellate^ mature smooth shining. Most easily 

 known from the S. elata by the panicle-branches ascending (not rectangularly divari- 

 cate). In the specimen Hooker sent to Berlin, the panicle is contracted into a dense 

 ellipsoid-oblong compound spike, and Boeckeler founded the species on this character ; 

 but in well evolute examples, the panicle is large compound the lower partial 

 panicles several, 8 in. apart. 



22. S. khasiana, C. B. Clarice (not of Boeck.) ; robust, softly hairy 

 all over, partial panicles 1-3 lanceolate or subovoid branches erect, style 

 3-fid, nut reticulate hairy, lobes of disc-margin short ovate erect minutely 

 apiculated. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4500-5750 ft., C. S. Clarke. 



Similar and allied to S. Hookeriana, but less robust, more hairy, nut more 

 reticulated, lobes of disc-margin erect, lanceolate-caudate. Leaves long- setaceous at 

 tip, very hairy ; sheaths densely (usually retrorsely) hairy. Spikelets (except brac- 

 teoles) nearly glabrous, often brown sometimes chestnut. Nut T \j in. long, ultimately 

 reticulated hairy ; tails of lobes of disc-margin reaching to ^ height of nut. S. 

 hhasiana, Boeck., is S. Thomsoniana. 



23. S. junciformis, Thw. Enum. 354 (not of KunfK) ; medium-sized, 

 hairy, rhizome short branched, panicle narrow, spikes distant, style 3-fid, 

 nut largeish obtuse obscurely reticulate, disc-margin truncate lobes very 

 short reflexed. S. hirsuta, Moon Cat. PI. Ceyl. 62; Trimen, Cat. PL 

 Ceyl. 103 (not of Boeck.). S. pilosa, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 473. Cylin- 

 dropus junciformis, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 303, & in Edinb. Phil. Journ. xvii. 

 266, and in Wight Contrib. 118. 



CEYLON; Reingan Corle, Thwaites (C.P. 3225). 



Rhizome -- in. in diam., contorted. Stem nearly 3 ft., rather slender. Leaves 

 up to 18 by in., tip lanceolate subobtuse. Panicle very slender ; lowest partial 

 panicle (spike-like) 1 in., nodding on a slender peduncle 2-4 in. Spikelets nearly 

 in., ferruginous, almost glabrous, no bisexual spikelets seen. Nut in. long, as of 

 S. tessellata. Approaches S. tessellata by its subobtuse leaves and infl., but the 

 rhizome differs. 



24. S. melanostoma, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 514 ; nearly gla- 

 brous except rhachis of panicle, leaves at nearly regular distances, sheaths 

 not winged, ligule short narrowly scarious-margined, partial panicles 

 distant pyramidal, nut tessellated pale or often becoming fuscous-black, 

 disc-lobes very short depressed ovate. S. Hasskarliana and S. Ploemii, 

 Boeck. in Engler, Jahrb. v. 511, 513. S. melanosperma, Nees & Arn. ms. 

 in Herb. Wight, n. 2377. Scleria sp. 15, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. T. T. 



BENGAL and KHASIA HILLS, frequent, Griffith, &c. DECCAN PENINSULA ; Cour- 

 tallum, Wight. DISTEIB. Java. 



This species is 8. elata, without wings to the leaf-sheaths, and like it varies from 

 1 to 8 ft. As to the colour of the nut, white and discoloured blackish nuts occur 

 often in one panicle. Some of Hooker's Scleria, n. 15, is S. elata, and it was all 

 formerly so named by Boeckeler. , 



ft Leaves (that is those next below the bracts) imperfectly (falsely) 

 opposite or ternate. 



