662 CLXxii. CTPBRACE^. (0. B. Clarke.) - [Seirjpus. 



2-4 times nut, slender, brown, smooth below, near apex thickened papillose-scabrous. 

 Anthers not crested. Nut small, ^-f glume, shortly beaked. 



22. S. chinensis, Munro in Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, 423 ; spikelets 

 clustered, bristles 3 slender or 0, style 2-fid, nut compressed ovoid apiculate 

 smooth pale. Benth. Fl. Songk. 395. S. sylvaticas, Strachey Cat. PL 

 Kumaon, 73. S. ternatanns, Beinw.; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 307. S. 

 Eriophorum var. conglomeratus, Boeck. in Serb. Berol. — Hypolytmm, 

 Wall. Cat. 3404 D (partly). 



Prom Chumba and Kumaon, alt. 0-5500 ft. Strachey l( Winterhottom to 

 MuNETFOOE, Watt, and Maetaban, Wallich. — Distbib. China, iJonin Isles. 



Glabrous, except ultimate rajs of umbel. Stems 2-7 ft., solitary, in swamps 

 often stoloniferous. Leates long, often overtopping stem, i in. broad, scabrous on 

 margins and keel. Umbel 4-8 in. diam., divaricate ; bracts several, lowest up to 

 20 in. Spikelets in clusters of 3-15, small, about i in., many-fld., eUipsoid, obtuse, 

 brown. Glumes concave, ovate, obtuse. Sristles often 0, sometimes 3, rarely 5, 

 overtopping nut, as long as glume, ultimately scarcely elongate not twisted (spikelets 

 not comose), smooth, minutely papillose-scabrous near the top. Stamens 2, rarely 

 3 ; anthers scarcely crested. Nut i glume, smooth or sometimes microscopically 

 verrucose. — The leaf-sheaths ai-e long, occasionally perforated at base by descending 

 shoots (aerial stolons) covered with small ovate scales. 



Sect. 6. MicHEHANi. Low, tufted, leafy. Spikelets small, in a single 

 head, bracts long. Olumes scarcely acute, not notched. Bristles 0. Stt/le 

 long, or branches long, continuous with the smooth nut. 



23. S. kylling-ioides, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 733 ; spikelets very 

 small, style 3-fid, nut oblong-obovoid obtuse smooth brown or black. 

 Isolepis kylKugioides, A. Sich. Tent, Fl. Abyss, ii. 502. Kyllinga micro- 

 cephala, Sieud. Syn. Cyp. 70 {excl. the Obs.). 



Dehba Dhoon ; Vicary. Mt. Aboo, alt. 3000 ft. , and Goon A, Kirtg. Sauqok ; 

 Vicary. Htdeaeab ; Campbell. Canaea ; Young. — DiSTEiB. Trop. Africa. 



Glabrous. Stems 4-10 in., slender, base thickened, sometimes with slender long 

 stolons. Leaves J-f stem, very narrow, green. Mead J in. diam., of 5-15 spikelets ; 

 bracts 1-3 in., leaf -like. Stamens 2 (3 fide Boeckeler); filaments scabrous; anthers 

 short oblong, not crested. Stgle slender, not longer than nut, branches long (some- 

 times 2 fide Boeckeler). Nut i glume, equally trigonous or subcompressed, minute 

 apiculate ; outermost cells subhezagonal, ultimately often punctate. — Easily known 

 from the next species by its small head of very small spikelets, but is very Uke a 

 small Kyllinga. 



24. S. nzichelianus, Linn. Sp. PI. 76 ; spikelets numerous densely 

 compound-capitate, style 2-fid (very rarely 3-fid), nut oblong or narrowly 

 obovoid subacute smooth yellow-brown. Beichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 43, t. 

 312 ; Boeck. in Flora, Uv. 158, 159. Isolepis Micheliana, Boem. & 8ch. 

 Syst. ii. 114; C. B. Clarke in Joum. Linn. Soc. xxi. 29, 30, t. 2, fig. 11. 

 Cyperus pygmseus, var. |3, BoecTc. in Linnsea, xxxv. 494 ; Benth. in Gen. PI. 

 iii. 1044 (partly). 0. diffuBus, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 189 (excl. syn.). 0. musarius, 

 Serb. Mam. ; Wall. Cat. ii.dS2,5 A. DiohoaijUBMicheMana,, Nees in Wight 

 Contrib. 94.— Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3484 A, B. 



Throughout Beitish India ; from Kashmir to Tenasserim, common. — DlsiEiB. 

 Europe, Asia, Algeria. 



Annual, tufted, glabrous. Stems 1-8 in., triquetrous. Leaves often longer than 

 stem. Sead J-| in. diam., bracts several long leaf-like. Spikelets J-J^ in. ; rhachilla 

 of spikclet marked spirally by the lozenge-shaped scars. Stamens usually 2 j anthers 

 hardly crested. Style about as long as nut. Nut i glume, shortly pyramidal at 



