Seirpodendron.} CYPERACEZ. 1131 
2367. Carex WaLLICHIANA Prese. ; PB. bows JAP 2 
. Bengal. 
nga 
A herb, 6 in. to 2°5 feet high. 
1026. Hypolytrum L. C. Rich. 
Stout, ne herbs, with woody rootstock and very stout 
root-fibres ; stem erect trigonous, leafy; leaves long, narrow, 
ar or ensiform, coriaceous, widest about the middle, 3-veined. 
Spikelets small, ovoid or subglobose, in broad, inn 
panicles, with stout, spreading, bracteolate branches, or the 
Panicle contracted into a compact, lobed head; bracts Jeaf-like ; 
bracteoles coriaceous. Glume s 2, opposite, basal, each witha ¢ 
flower, spreading in fruit, persistent; rarely empty glumes inter- 
Posed between basal males and terminal female; bristles 0. 
Stamens tae filaments elongate. Ovary terminal, flattene 
turbinat » beaked; style continuous with the ovary, persistent; 
stigmas 2 filiform. Fruit a rounded or obtusely angled nut, with 
thick, hard endocarp, beaked or not. 
The spikelet of Hypolytrum usually resembles a single flower, com- 
Posed of 1 bract, 2 bracteoles, 2 stamens, and a pistil. 
2368. Hypotyrrum prairie L. C. Rich.; F. B. I. vi. 678. 
Tunga diandra F, 1. i 
Bengal, Duars ae tagong. 
A stout herb, 1-3 fous high, in moist undergrowth. 
1027. Scirpodendron Kurz. 
Stout herbs, with woody rhizome ; stems ending in an oblong 
Panicle ; radical leaves very long, with serrate edges, narrowed to 
both ends, Flowers in ellipsoid, clustered spikes of many spike- 
lets. Spikelets of 8-11 glumes beyond the bracteole, the lowest 
Pair opposite, navicular, 1-androus ; the ve mes three falsely 
Whorled, narrow, thin, empty; intermediate 3-6 1l-androus or 
Sterile. Style ies linear, continuous below wii mae ovary, above 
branched. Frui a large, bony, dusky, obtuse nut, coarsely 
longitudinally 6-ri Keio 
2369, See costarum Kurz; F. B. I. vi. 684. 
Sundribun 
B= 
A coarse “one of muddy, littoral forests. . 
