94 Cyperacece. {Selena. 



L. j\j-1 in. broad. 







Nut tessellately cancellate . .10. 



S. 



TESSELLATA. 



Nut smooth . . . . .11. 



S. 



HEBECARPA. 



L. j- 5 in. broad 12. 



S. 



BIFLORA. 



Panicles with few or long capillary 







bracteoles. 







Nuts globose 13. 



S. 



ORVZOIDES. 



Nuts on oblate sphere . . . .14. 



s. 



LEVIS. 



i. S. Nee&ii, Kunth, Ennm. ii. 358 (1837). Bakamunu-tana, 5. 

 Thw. Enum. 354. -S". stricta, Moon, Cat. 62. Hypoftorum capitatum^. 

 Nees in Wight, Contrib. 118. C. P. 3037. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 688. 



Pubescent with soft spreading hairs; rootstock small or o; 

 stems tufted, very slender, 6-12 in.; 1. usually many towards 

 the base of the stem, as long as the stem or shorter, erect, 

 linear, \-\ in. broad, narrowed from the middle to the base,, 

 obtuse or acute, flat, soft, 3-veined, uppermost bract-like, 

 erect, exceeding the head ; sheaths slender, closed ; spikelets 

 all unisexual, clustered in a terminal, peduncled, hairy, pale 

 head \-\ in. diam., substellately spreading, bract or uppermost 

 leaf 1-2 in., peduncle \-\ in.; fruiting spikelets \-\ in., laxly 

 hairy; glumes 4, membranous, 2 lower shorter, long-cuspidate,, 

 upper broadly ovate, cymbiform, narrowed into a long acumi- 

 nate beak ; glumes of male spikelets like the fern. ; stam. 3, 

 anth. subacute; nut very small, ^V _ T6 m -> globose, echinate, 

 white, disk obscure. 



Low country; rather common in swampy places. Fl. Feb.-July, &c. 

 Also in Borneo. In Bornean specimens more than one head of 

 spikelets occur. 



2. S. pergracilis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 354(1837). M^hiwai, i". 



Thw. Enum. 354. C. P. 827. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 685. 



Annual (?), glabrous, densely tufted ; stems 18-30 in.,, 

 filiform, terminating in a very long simple spike of very small 

 distant clusters of few spikelets; 1. longer than the stem, very 

 slender, ^ in. broad, or less, narrowed to the obtuse tip, 

 3-veined, sheaths long, slender, closed ; spikes 6-12 in., 

 rhachis filiform, rather thicker than the stem ; clusters of 

 spikelets about \ in. apart, quite sessile, with a hyaline 

 lanceolate bract at the base as long as the spikelet, and a few 

 smaller hyaline bracteoles; fruiting spikelets about iV in. long, 

 about 3 in a cluster ; glumes membranous, broadly ovate- 

 oblong, upper \ in. long, apiculate, speckled with red-brown; 

 anth. linear with a pubescent appendage; nut very small, 

 globosely trigonous, T V in. diam., deeply rugosely cancellate, 

 white, disk obscure or o. 



