Selena.] CLXXII. CYPERACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 693 



25. 3, bancana, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. Suppl. 602; robust, nearly gla- 

 brous, partial panicles dense approximate subcoalescent branches ascend- 

 ing, spikelets dusky stramineous, style 3-fid, nut ovoid apiculate reticulate, 

 lobes of disc-margin 3 ovate-triangular auricles reflexed. S. macrophylla, 

 Presl. Bel. Haenk. i. 200; Nees in Wight Contrib. 116. S. malaccensis, 

 Boeck. in Linnma, xxxviii. 507. Scleria, Wall. Gat. 3409. 



TENASSERIM, Kurz. MALACCA, Griffith. SINGAPORE, Wallich. DISTRIB. 

 Borneo, Tonkin. 



Rhizome woody, i-& in. diam. Stems 2-4 ft. Leaves (upper approximated in 

 pairs) 12-18 by ^ in., tip lanceolate subobtuse; sheath triquetrous sometimes nar- 

 rowly 3-winged. Panicle uninterrupted in Indian examples (in Borneo lowest partial 

 panicle is sometimes 5 in. distant) ; secondary bracts long, linear, conspicuously 

 exsert. Spikelets nearly as of S. elata. Nut y\j in. in diam., white or straw-colrd., 

 minutely hairy, ultimately glabrate ; lobes of disc-margin reaching to height of 

 nut, adpressed, pale. 



26. S. multifoliata, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 510 ; robust, nearly 

 glabrous or (var.) hairy, partial panicles- pyramidal red (except var.), style 

 3-fid, nut reticulate hairy often finally discoloured, lobes of disc-margin 3 

 triangular attaining $- height of nut. Scleria, Wall. Cat. 3407 (partly} 

 3410 ({partly}, 3411 (partly). 



RANGOON and TAVOY, Wallich. SINGAPORE, Griffith, &c. DISTRIB. Malay 

 Islds. 



Leaves (next below lowest bract) in (false) whorls of 2 or 3, tip setaceous, 

 margins scabrous cutting the hand j sheaths not winged. Nut-bearing spiJcelets 

 somewhat obovoid. Nut T \j in. long, rather narrower than in adjacent species, often 

 ultimately dark red, shining or subviscid. Margin of disc cup-shaped at base, its 

 3 lobes thick red adpressed sometimes entire often crenulate occasionally their edge 

 cut into short oblong blunt lobes terminated by glands (approaching sub-gen. 

 Schizolepis) . Most readily distinguished from S. sumatrensis by the narrowed base 

 of the fruiting spikelet. 



Var. pilosula ; more hairy, leaves beneath densely softly hairy, panicles and 

 spikelets fuscous stramineous. S. pubescens, Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 61 (not of 

 Steud.). Penang, King's Collector, &c. Java. Plant 3-6 ft.; spikelets greenish 

 white (King) ; lower bracts subopposite (like the upper leaves) ; .panicle only slightly 

 hairy. 



Var. ophirensis ; panicles fuscous, lower peduncles long, male spikelets narrow, 

 lobes of disc-margin shorter (than in S. multifoUata type), pale. Malacca; summit 

 of Mt. Ophir, alt. 5000 ft., Hullett (n. 869). A very coarse rigid form, which might 

 be treated as a species. 



27. S. sumatrensis, Retz. Obs. v. 19, t. 2 ; robust, nearly glabrous, 

 partial panicles pyramidal brown or red, style 3-fid, nut globose reticulate 

 often finally discoloured, lobes of disc-margin very large attaining ^ 

 height of nut obtuse. Nees in- Wight Contrib. 116; Tliw. Enum. 353; 

 Boeck. in Linntea, xxxviii. 513 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. xlv., part 2, 159. 

 S. setigera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 575. S. purpurascens, Steud. Syn. Oyp. 169. 

 Scleria, Wall. Gat. 3407 '(partly), 3408 B, 3413. 



S. BENGAL to SINGAPORE, frequent. NICOBARS, Kurz. PENANG, Wallich. 

 CEYLON. DISTRIB. Java. 



Resembles S. multifoUata, Boeck., and most easily distinguished by the broad 

 rounded base of the fruiting spikelets. Secondary bracts 1 in., filiform,, often con- 

 spicuous. Nut T \j-f in. diam., mature glabrate, pale or brown, or often dark red 

 shining. Lobes of disc-margin sometimes nearly enveloping the nut, truncate 

 sometimes creuulate undulate. 



