-90 Cype race(2. [Mapania. 



globose; glumes yo-e i n - long, oblong, obtuse, or apiculate, 

 1 -veined, thinly coriaceous, brown; scales 2, obtuse, scarious, 

 keel scabrid ; stam. 2-3, fil. long, slender; anth. linear-oblong ; 

 ov. as long as the scales, turbinate, with a broad swollen 

 beaked top; style short, stigmas 2 or 3; nut subglobosely 

 trigonous or somewhat compressed, Yo~i i n< > very shortly 

 beaked, yellowish or dark brown, epicarp thin, fleshy, endo- 

 carp thick, crustaceous, black. 



Var. /3, minus, Thwaites 1. c. C. P. 3467. 

 Much more slender, 1. narrower, branches of panicle very 

 slender, spikelets \ in., pedicels \-% in. 



Var. y, turg-idum, Hook, f. H. latifolium, Thw. 1. c. in part. H. 

 turgidum, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 679. C. P. 3. 



Habit and infl. of the type, but scales 3, the third fiat, 

 muticous, not keeled or scabrid, nut rather larger. 



Shady places in the moist region up to 3000 ft.; common. Var. y, 

 moist region, apparently rare, at about 3000 ft. Dikoya (Ambagamuwa 

 Dist.) (Thwaites). Fl. Feb., March. 



Also in Travancore, Assam, Nicobar and Andaman Is., Malaya and 

 eastward. 



There are Ceylon specimens in Brit. Mus. from Kcenig and from 

 Jonville (1800). 1 cannot distinguish H. turgidum as a species, the nut 

 is so variable in size or shape. Thwaites' var. minus is rather a reduced 

 form than a distinct variety. — J. D. H. 



2. XX. long-irostre, Thw. Enum. 346 (i< 



C. P. 3468. 



Fi. B. Ind. vi. 679. 



Rootstock small, stem 12-18 in., rather slender ; 1. longer 

 than the stem, up to 2 ft. by \ in., narrowly ensiform, acu- 

 minate, tips straight, coriaceous, 3-veined above, margins 

 and keel smooth in the lower part, scabrid above, lower 

 sheaths short, pale; panicle 2-3 in. long and broad, irre- 

 gularly branched, branches \-\ in., slender, stiff, divaricate, 

 bracteolate; bracts leafy; spikelets shortly pedicelled, \-\ in. 

 long, oblong or ellipsoid, straw-col'd.; glumes \ in. long, 

 oblong or obovate-oblong, acute; scales 2, concave, acute, 

 keel scaberulous (with sometimes 1 or 2 additional flat scales) ; 

 nut minute, 2V in- diam., broadly obovoid or subglobose, sub- 

 compressed, rugose, brown, shining, beak much longer than 

 the nut, conical, acuminate, white. 



Moist low country; very rare. I have seen only the C. P. specimens 

 collected at Hiniduma in 1855 by Thwaites. Fl. May. 



Endemic. 



18. MAPANIA, Aubl. 



Stemless, scapigerous, coarse herbs; rootstock elongate, 

 stout, erect or creeping, root-fibres vermiform; 1. very long, 



