•96 Cyperacece. {Selena. 



Shady woods in moist low country below 1000 ft. ; very rare. Kalu- 

 tara (Moon); Reigam and Pasdun Korales (Thwaites). Fl. Sept. 



Endemic. 



The bract, simulating a continuation of the stem, gives the panicle 

 the appearance of being lateral. 



5 S. lithosperma, Sw. Prod. 18 (17S8). 

 Moon, Cat. 62. Thw. Enum. 354. C. P. 826. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 685. 



Rootstock hard, elongate, horizontal, nodose, root-fibres 

 slender, wiry; stem 1J-3 ft, very slender, trigonous, leafy, 

 smooth ; 1. as long as the stem or shorter, narrowly linear, 

 -^-yV m - broad, narrowed to the obtuse tip, sheaths trigonous, 

 closed, mouth truncate, with a narrow scarious margin op- 

 posite the limb ; spikelets few, subsolitary, distant on the 

 filiform rhachis and few distant branches of very slender, 

 terminal and axillary, subspiciform panicles, pale or dark 

 brown; bracts and bracteoles very long, capillary; fruiting 

 spikelets T V in.; glumes broadly ovate, subcuspidately acumi- 

 nate; disk-lobes o; nut broadly, ellipsoid, obtusely trigonous, 

 top rounded, smooth, white, polished. 



Var. (3, Thw. 1. c, var. Roxburghii, Clarke in Fl.B.Ind. 1. c. C. P. 2627. 



Fruiting spikelets \ in., glumes cuspidate, nut globosely 

 trigonous, top apiculate or mucronate, puberulous and minutely 

 tuberculate in waved ridges, white. 



Low country; common. Var. /3, Haragama. Fl. Nov., Dec, Feb. 



In India and all hot countries except Africa. 



6. S. sumatrensis, Rets. Obs. Bot. v. 19 (1789). 



Nees in Wight, Contrib. 116. Thw. Enum. 353. C. P. 3783. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 693. Retz. Obs. Bot. v. t. 2. 



Stem tall, stout, leafy, trigonous, \ in. diam., angles smooth 

 or scaberulous; 1. 1-2 ft. by |-f in. broad, narrowed into a 

 slender obtuse point, coriaceous, glabrous or pubescent beneath 

 at the base, where the margins are recurved, uppermost sub- 

 opposite or subternate, sheaths closed, trigonous, glabrous, or 

 puberulous, mouth truncate, villously ciliate ; spikelets \ in., 

 very many, on the spreading branches and branchlets of large, 

 decompound, oblong, terminal, and subterminal panicles 3-4 

 in. long, pale brown, solitary, or few in sessile clusters ; bracts 

 leaf-like, bracteoles filiform ; fruiting spikelets few, t^-\ m - 

 long ; glumes 3, broadly ovate, upper suddenly contracted 

 from a rounded base into an acuminate, cuspidate tip; nut 

 globose, Tu~i m - diam., sunk for J— § in length in a large, fleshy, 

 cup-shaped, obscurely 3-lobed, crenate disk, closely rugosely 

 pitted, brown. 



Moist low country ; common. 



Also in Bengal, Assam, Burma, Nicobar Is., Malaya. 



