~Sderia.\ CyperacecB. 99 



11. S. hebecarpa, Nees in Linncea, ix. 303 (1835). Croda- 

 karawu, 5. 



S. alata, Moon, Cat. 62. Thw. Enum. 435. Nees in Wight, Contrib. 

 117. C. P. 3031, 3763. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 689. 



Rootstock woody, nodose, root-fibres stout; stem 2-3 ft, 

 rather slender, rigid, triquetrous; 1. 10-12 in. by | in. broad 

 ox narrower, narrowed to the obtuse tip, flat, 3-veined, rigid, 

 margins scabrous, sheaths trigonous, closed, mouth truncate, 

 with an ovate coriaceous pubescent ligule opposite the blade; 

 spikelets solitary or in small clusters on the suberect branches 

 of narrow, erect, terminal and subterminal, sparingly branched 

 panicles 2-3 in. long, red-brown, branches of panicle and 

 spikelets with filiform bracts \-\ in. long; fruiting spikelets 

 J- in. long; glumes 3, upper broadly ovate, cuspidately acumi- 

 nate; disk-lobes triangular-ovate, acute, brown ; nut globose 

 -or broadly ovoid, obscurely trigonous, apiculate, T V— J in. long, 

 minutely puberulous, white, polished. 



Moist low country ; rather common. Fl. Oct., Dec. 



Throughout India, Malaya, Polynesia, Australia, China, Japan. 



Very near to S. tessellala, differing in the smooth, polished, puberulous 

 nut, and in the disk-lobes. A common Indian state has hairy leaves and 

 panicles. — J. D. H. 



12. S. biflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 573 (1832). 



6*. Steudeliana, Miq.; Boeck. in Linnaea, xxviii. 475. S. tessellata, 

 Thw. Enum. 354. C. P. 3034. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 687. 



Stems tufted, 1-2 ft, rather stout, trigonous, leafy; 1. 6-10 

 by \-\ in., ensiform, obtuse or subacute, thin, flat, 3-veined, 

 margins smooth or suberulous, sheaths loose, closed, tri- 

 gonous, mouth truncate, minutely pubescent opposite the 

 limb; spikelets not numerous, in small clusters on the branches 

 of narrow, slender, erect, terminal and subterminal sparingly 

 branched panicles 2-3 in. long, branches of panicle and lower 

 clusters subtended by filiform bracteoles \-\ in. long ; fruiting 

 spikelets T V m - l° n g; glumes 3, broadly ovate, acuminate; 

 disk 3-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, acuminate, about one-fourth 

 the length of the nut ; nut globose, xa in. diam., minutely 

 tessellately cancellate in vertical lines, puberulous with reddish 



-hair, shortly beaked, white. 



Moist low country below 1000 ft.; rather rare. Ambagamuwa ; 



"Yatiantota ; Kukul Korale. Fl. Dec. 

 Also in Bengal, S. China, Malaya. 



13. S. orjzoid.es, Presl, Rel. Haenk. i. 201 (1830). Fotu-pan, 

 Potu-kola, S. 



S. latifolia, Moon, Cat. 62. Nees in Wight, Contrib. 117. Thw. 

 Elnum. 353. C. P. 828. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 691. 



