JLipocarpha.] Cyperacece. 8 1 



spikelets short, terete, sessile in small terminal heads of 3-7, 



with long slender bracts ; glumes very many, minute, densely 



imbricate, cuneately spathulate, glabrous, 1 -veined, not keeled, 



at length deciduous, rhachilla stout, terete, naked ; hypogynous 



bristles o, scales 2, oblong, membranous, strongly veined, 



white, hyaline, convolute, completely enveloping the nut ; 



stam. 1, anth. small ; nut narrowly oblong, trigonous, apicu- 



late or with a terminal conical top; style short, stigmas 3. — 



Sp. 13; 3 in FL B. Ind. 



Spikelets silvery white 1. L. argentea. 



Spikelets purplish brown 2. L. TRICEPS. 



1. Zi. arg"entea, Br. in app. Tuckey Congo, 459 (1818). 



L. Icevigata, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 92. Thw. Enum. 347. C. P. 



819, 3557- 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 667. 



Perennial (?) ; rootstock small, root-fibres stout; stem 6-8 

 in., slender, subtrigonous, grooved, or stout in dwarf speci- 

 mens ; 1. much shorter than the stem, very slender, gradually 

 narrowed from the sheath to the obtuse tip, coriaceous, 

 margins involute, smooth, lower often shorter, stouter, re- 

 curved, sheath green, open ; spikelets 3-7 in., sessile in a dense 

 terminal head, ^-J in. long, shortly ovoid, terete, top rounded, 

 silvery grey, rhachilla stout, closely covered with orbicular 

 scars; bracts 3-5, slender, 1-2 much the longest, up to 4 in. 

 long, horizontally spreading ; glumes very numerous and 

 closely imbricate, tf _ tV m - l° n g> membranous, broadly obovate- 

 oblong, or cuneately spathulate, acute or obtuse, concave, 

 midrib not keeled, scales longer than the nut, oblong, hyaline, 

 3-veined ; nut ^o i n -» linear-oblong or narrowly obovate-oblong, 

 obtusely trigonous, straight or slightly curved, mucronate, 

 grey-brown, style shorter than the nut. 



Moist places up to 5600 ft.; common. Fl. March, July. 

 Throughout warmer regions of Old World. 



2. Zi. triceps, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 92 (1834). 



L. sphacelata, Kunth, Enum. ii. 267 (1837). Thw. Enum. 347. Hypce- 

 lyptum ceylanicum, Nees in Linnaea, ix. 288. C. P. 3756. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 667. Lam. 111. t. 38, f. 2 (Kyllinga triceps). 



Perennial (?); rootstock small, hard, with slender root- 

 fibres; stem 4-14 in., leafy at the base, slender, subtrigonous, 

 striate ; 1. much shorter than the stem, narrowed from the 

 sheath to the obtuse tip, or widening up to j? in. broad in 

 the middle, flat, margins smooth, sheath open, green ; spikelets 

 3-5, sessile, in a small terminal head, ^-| in. long, subglobose 

 -or ovoid, terete, tip rounded, purplish brown ; rhachilla stout, 

 part v. G 



