Gahnia.] olxxii. oTPEEiCE^. (C.B.Clarke.) 6/7 



61. Syzyganthus multiflorus, Sieud. 8yn. Gyp. 153. Schoenus paniou- 

 latus, Eassk. Gat. Sort. Bogor. 296 (not of Burm.). S. Hasskarlii, Steud 

 I. c. 166. 



Maiat Islands ; from Sumatra to Fiji. 



Nearly glabrous. Stem often 3 ft., terete. Leaves often nearly as long as stem, 

 i-i in. wide, tip caudate very scabrous. Panicle 12 by 3 in., dense ; branches from 

 each lower sheath usually several (sometimes 15) ; lower bracts long, similar to 

 leaves. Spikelets nearly \ in., when young lanceolate ; lower flower sterile or male 

 or wanting. Lower glumes 3-4, keeled, mucronate ; upper glumes 3-2, when young 

 very small, ultimately enlarged hardened, | as long as the uppermost keeled glume. 

 Stamens in lower flower 4, in the upper 3 ; filaments persistent ultimately elongate 

 and brown, often retaining the nut. 



Ysa. penangensis ; lowest bract shorter, often not half length of panicle, panicle 

 looser, branches finally nodding (not in snberect clusters). — Penang, alt. 3000 ft., 

 (?. King, Perak, alt. 6500 ft., Wray. Malacca ; Punnus, Griffilh {Kew Bistrih. 

 6305). 



20. REiaXZtEA, Auhlet. 



A glabroQS perennial. Siem short, with nnmerons long leaves. Spikes 

 digitately capitate ; bracts long. Spikelets densely sessile, 1-fld. Glumes 

 4, imbricate laxly on all sides, small, ovate-triangalar, three lowest empty 

 green striate, uppermost nerveless containing a perfect qnasi-terminal 

 flower. Hypogyoous bristles 0. Stamens 3, unilateral. Sti/le linear, 

 smooth ; base not dilated ; branches 3, linear. Nut oblong-ellipsoid, tri- 

 gonous, smooth ; style deciduous. 



The flower is here really axillary, the continuation of the axis suppressed at an 

 early stage. The plant is allied to the Rynchosporece, as Bentham has it. 



B.. maritima, Aahl. PI. Ouian. i. 45, t. 16 ; stem nearly covered 

 by sheaths of leaves (i.e. head sessile) or only covered near base (i.e. head 

 peduneled). Beauv. Fl. d' Ovoar. ii. 22, t. 73 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soe. 

 xlv. (1876), pt. ii. 158 ; Boeck. in lArmcea, xxxv. 435. E. pedunculata, Br. 

 Prodr. 236 ; Thw. Ewwm. 345. E. Wightiana, Nees in Wight Contrib. 92. 

 B. disticophylla, Boech. in Flora, xli. 410. Mariscus capitatua, Zoll. Verz. 

 Ind. Archip. ii 63. Lipooarpha foliosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 337 ; F^urz Fl. 

 Bangka, 224.— Cyperus, Wall. Gat. 3378. 



Sea-coasts. Canada ; Talbot. Tenasseeim ; Belfer ; Malacca, Griffith ; Nico- 

 BAEs, Kurz; &e. Ceylon ; Thwaites (O.P. 3227.)— Distbib. All tropical sea- 

 coasts. 



Rhizome up to 2 ft. Stems distant, or tufted from the branched head of 

 rhizome, 2-6 in., subtrigonous, smooth. Leaves often longer than stem, narrow, 

 rigid, curved nearly smooth. Brads 2-6, patent, 1-3 in., leaf-like. Splices nbo-at 

 \ in. long, ellipsoid, of about 3o spikelets, dirty straw-colrd. Spikelets i in., ellipsoid. 

 Nut I glume, chestnut-colrd. ; outermost cells minute, round-hexxgonal, often 

 porose (i.e nut puncticulate.) 



21. HYPOtYTatTBi:, L. G. Bich. 



Stem with some nodes far above the base. Leaves flat, somewhat thin, 

 3-nerved, narrowed gradually at each end. Spikes panieled,. branches 

 rigid ; bracts long, leaf-like. Spikelets without glumes interposed between 

 the two opposite basal males and the terminal pistil except in B. turgidum 



