Hypolytrum.] clxxii. OTrEBACEiE. (C. B; Clarke.) 679 



Canaba ; DaUell. Malabab or Concan j Stocks. 'WtSkkD j Goodaloor, 

 King. Nicobaes ; Kwrz. 



Distributed in Herb. H. f. and T. as a local form of B. latifoKum, which it 

 closely resembles. The nut is usually glandular-punctate, pitted rugose or nearly 

 smooth. 



3. K. turg'ldum, G. B. Gla/rke; Btem stout, leaves long ^-f in. 

 broad, panicle compound dense, spikelets often of three glumes (besides 

 the bracteole), style 2-fid, fertile nut large brown purple punctate, beak 

 small or hardly any. H. latifoUum, Thw. Enum. 346 {partly), 



Cetlon, Central Province, alt. 3000 ft., Thwaitea (C.P. 3). 



Thwaites subsequently (in ms.) separated this as a distinct species. The two 

 boat-shaped squamellse are lateral (as in all the Mapaniece) ; the third extra glume 

 is flat concave thin without keel on the anterior side of the spikelet within the 

 sqnamellae. A similar extra glume occurs frequently in several of the large American 

 Bypolytrece ; thus indicating an approach to Thorotcostaoliynm. 



4. K. penang-ense, 0. B. Clarke ; stem stout, leaves long |-| in. 

 broad, panicle compound of 100 spikes, young spikes i by Jj in. linear 

 cjlindrio. 



Penang ; Mamgay {Kew Disirii. 1720). 



Imperfectly known from a young example j but the young spikes diflfer much 

 from those of H. lafifoUum at the same point of development. 



5. K. trinervium, Kunth Enum. ii. 272 ; stem somewhat slender, 

 leaves |— j in. broad, bracteoles broad-oblong obtuse entire brown not 

 soarious-margined, style 2-fid, nut small black-purple, beak conical pale 

 nearly as long as nut. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 332 and III. Fl. Archip. Ind. 

 59. 



" East Indies " {Seri. Willdenow). 



Altogether slenderer than S. latifolium, to which Boeckeler refers it as a weak 

 example. — Stem 16 in.; cauline leaves 1 or 2 remote. Fwnicle \-\\ in. diam., with 

 25 spikes. Spites in fruit scarcely i in. diam., themselves their glumes (bracteoles) 

 and nuts much smaller than in JS. latifolimm. Nat (with its beak) less than Jj in. ; 

 beak straw-colrd., densely covered with round red glands. 



6. ZZ. proliferuxu, Boeck. in lAnnsea, xxxvii. 126 ; stem somewhat 

 slender, leaves ^-J- in. broad, bracteoles oblong-obovate brown upper 

 margin conspicuously white-scarious lacerate, style 2-fid, nut small dusky 

 brown, beak conical dusky brown rather shorter than nut. 



Singapore ; Wichura, Ridley. — Disteib. Borneo. 



Shizome woody, obliquely descending (not " proliferous-branched " as described 

 by Boeckeler). Stem 16 in., oauline leaves 1 or 2 remote. Panicle l-lj in. diam., 

 with 20 spikes. Young spikelets i hy -^ in., cylindric, glistening white (broad 

 scarious margins of bracteoles covering up the brown bases). Spilcelets in fruit \ 

 diam., subglobose. Nut ovoid, scarcely -Jj in. long, nearly smooth. — Very like H. 

 trinervium, except as to the conspicuously scarious bracteoles. 



7. K. longirostre, Thw. Enum. 346; stem 12-20 in., corymb rigid, 

 bracteoles hard subacute, one (or more) squamella often interposed between 

 the two basal male squamellse and pistil, style 2-fid, beak longer than nut 

 conic acute pale not grooved. Kwrz in Journ. A&. Soc. Beng. sxxviii. pt. 

 ii. 75 ; Boeok. in Linneea, xxxvii. 128. H, latifolium y minor, Kurz I. c. 74 

 (partly, not af L. G. Rich.). 



Crtlonj Thwaites (C.P. 3468.) 



Stolon.s long, slender, clothed by small red-brown scales, hardening into a 



