660 CLXxii. cTPEEACEi. (C, B. Clarke.) [Scirpus. 



I. c. 231. S. aemulans, Bteitd. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 62, Ss 8yn. Cyp. 

 87 (partly). S. maritinma, var. sBinnlanB, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 306. S. 

 canaliculato-triqneter, Simti. Z. c. 318. S. Griffithii, Boeck., and S. sca- 

 berrimus, Boeck. in Flora, xli. 595. HymeaoohEete grossa, Wees in Edinh. 

 iV. Phil. Jburn. [1834] 264, & in Wight Oontrib. 110. H. maxima, Nees 

 in Linnsea, ix. 293. Isolepis maxima, Bietr. Sp. PI. ii. 130. — Scirpus, 

 Wall. Cat. 3470. 



Throughout India (except the N.W.), alt. 0-2000 ft. ; from Sind and Assam to 

 Cetion and Maiaoca. — Disteib. Malaya, Tonkin, Philippines. 



GrlabroQS, or glumes with pedicels minutely pubemlous-scabrons. Stem 3-9 ft., 

 thick at base, roots fibrous often in water or mud ; stolons not rarely added. Iieaves 

 often f length of stem, stout, broad, keeled, serrate-edged. Cort/mb often 8-16 in. 

 in diam., supradecompound ; bracts several, divaricate, lowest up to 3 ft., leaf-like. 

 SpiJcelets sessile and pedicelled, J in. long, ovoid, brown, dense-fld. Cfiumes ovate, 

 obtuse with a minute mncro. bristles 6 or fewer, in type as long as nut, linear, 

 brown, scabrid or setose by short unicellular hairs, but not rarely bristles depau- 

 perated very short smooth, in form S. maximiis. Stamens 3 ; anthers scarcely 

 crested. Style long. 2fut scarcely i glume, minutely beaked by style-base con- 

 fluent with nut. 



Tar. Ktsook (sp.), Roxi. I. c. 230; glumes more mucronate, bristles 6, villous 

 or almost plumose by numerous multicellular hairs. Eynchospora Kysoor, Dietr. Sp. 

 PI. ii. 74. Hymenochsete Kysoor, Nees (of. note in Wight Gontr^. 110). — Assam, 

 Jenkins. Bengal, Oriffith, &c. Chota Nagpore, alt. 2000 ft., C. B. Clarke. Bombay, 

 Dalzell. — Stolons fide Roxburgh Icon sometimes bearing black tubers f in. in 

 diam. 



Sect. 4. Blysmus (G-enus), Panzer in Boem. & Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. 41. 

 Medium or slender plants. Spikelets closely spicate. Style long. 



* Stem with leaf-hearing nodes above the base, style 2-fid. 



18. S. Caricis, Retz Fl. Bcand. 11 ; spikelets subdistichously closely 

 spicate or densely subpaniculate, bristles 6 much longer than tbe nut, 

 nut smooth ashy-black narrowed at both ends (but see var.). S. 

 compressus, Pers. 8yn. i. 66 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 707. Schoenus 

 compressus, lAnn. Sp. PI. 65. Blysmus compressus. Panzer in Link. Sort. 

 Berol. i. 278 ; BeicTib. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 36, t. 293. Leptolepis tibetica, 

 Boeck. Gyp. Nov. heft. i. 31. 



W. HiMAiAYA and W. Tibet, alt. 7-15,000 ft. j from Leh, StoUcsia, to Kumaon, 

 Duthie. Phakee (N.B. Sikkim), ff. King. — Distbib. Europe, W. and Centr. 

 Asia. 



Glabrous. Rhhome creeping, divided. Stems 4-8 in., leafy below, angular 

 striate or terete. Leaves often as long as stems, linear. Spike, in type form, 

 1-2 in., dense ; lowest bract short, or much overtopping spike. Spikelets usually 

 'distichous, sometimes on all sides the rhachis (lowest sometimes remote) J in. long, 

 6-9-fld., brown. Glumes ovate-triangular, subacute, concave, several-nerved. Sha- 

 <;hilla of spikelet compressed at base, somewhat zigzag, lowest fl. somewhat distant 

 from next above nearly as in Schcenus. Bristles slender, minutely retrorse-scabrous, 

 red-brown. Stamens 3 j anthers with a linear-lanceolate red cre«t. Sfgle long, 

 slender, jffut ^ glume, compressed or plano-convex ; outermost cells small, obscure. 

 Var. hrevifolia (sp.), Decne in Jacqnem. Voy. Bot. 173, t. 173 ; stems l-2.ft. 

 with nodes and leaves above the middle, spikelets scarcely distichous lowest some- 

 what distant. Straohey Cat. Fl. Kumaon, 7^. — West Himalaya ; Chiui, Jacquemont. 

 W. Tibet, alt. 13,000 ft., StoUczka. — Glumes often scarcely striate. Bristles and 

 nut as in S. Carieis typ. — A trifling var. 



