Mapania.] clsxii. cypbraceje. (C. B. Clarke.) 681 



upper as though in a whorl, narrow-oblong, thin, empty. Sti/le continuous 

 with ovary, persistent ; branches 3, long. Nut osseous, small or large, dry 

 or succulent, beaked or obtuse. — Species 33, Tropical, cosmopolitan. 



Sect. I. Halostbmma (Genus), Wall, eas Benth.in Gen. PI. iii. 1070 (by 

 a misreading of had lithography). Leaves long narrowed at both ends. 

 Lateral scape long or short. Spikes capitate in a single head, distinct, of 

 many spikelets ; bracts shorter than spikes. Spikelets often i in. Nut 

 dry, buried in the chafEy braeteoles and glumes ; beak small conic, or 

 hardly any. 



1. m. silhetensls, G. S. Clarke; scape 1-2 ft. smooth upwards 

 with 1-6 spikes, leaves often 1 in. broad scarcely scabrous on the keel 

 beneath, braeteoles i in. 3-5-3triate, style 3-fid, nut ovoid much narrowed 

 at base almost stalked. Pandanophyllum palustre 8 silhetana, Kii/rz in 

 Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. xxxviii. pt. ii. 79 (partly.) — Cyperacea, Wall. Cat. 

 n. 4474. 



Upper Assam; alt. 300 ft , Jenkins, C. B. Clarhe. Stihet ; Wallich. 



Shizome long, nearly i in. diam. Leaves 1-3 ft,, margins scabrous. Scape ro- 

 bust, sheathed at base by some horny scales, naked upwards. Spikes f in., ellipsoid ; 

 braeteoles \ in., chaffy, elliptic-oblong, dirty straw-colour, persistent. Scpiamellte 

 and glumes linear-oblong, nearly as long as braeteoles ; 3rd lateral glume sterile. 

 Sii/le long, slender, branches 3 long. INut A in., ashy black ; beak very small, fused 

 with nut. 



2. nX. palustrls, Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 1070 ; scape 1-2 ft. glandular- 

 scabrous upwards with- 10-50 spikes, leaves often IJ in. broad acutely 

 scabrous on keel beneath, braeteoles i in. lacerate at top often sub-bifld, 

 siyle 3-fid, nut ovoid little narrowed at base. Pandanophyllum palustre, 

 Boeek. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 138 ; Xurz in Journ. As. 8oc. Beng. xxxviii. part 

 2, 78 (var. malesica) (not of Hassk.). Lepironia palustris, Miq. III. Fl. 

 Archip. Ind. 63, t. 25. 



SiNQAPOEB ! Ridley. — Distbib. Malaya. 



Rhizome long, nearly ^ in. diam. Leaves 3-4 ft., margins scabrous. Scape to- 

 bast, sheathed at base by some horny scales. Heads 1^2 in. diam. Spikes i in. 

 ellipsoid, braeteoles chaffy, persistent. Squamellce and glumes linear-oblong, nearly 

 as long as braeteoles, 3rd lateral glame sterile. Nut \ in., ashy-black, beak small 

 conic. — Pandanophyllum palustre, Hassk. (in Tydsch. Nat. Vereen. Ned. Ind. x. 119, 

 297) had a bifid style and 3-5 spikelets, so that it cannot be present plant (according 

 to a specimen in the British Museum from Teysmann it was Cephaloscirpus, Knrz, 

 with which the general description of Hasskark coincides). 



3. SI. Kurzii, C. B. Cla/rke; scape 4-16 in. smooth upwards with 

 1-15 spikes, leaves 1 in. broad aculeate on keel beneath, braeteoles f in. 

 strongly 13-8triate reddish-brown. 



Malacca ; Griffith (Kew Dietrii. 6356). Pekak ; alt. 1750 ft.. King. Penawg, 

 on Government Hill, alt. 1750 ft. , Maingay, King. 



Shizome thick. Leaves densely equitant, very rigid, harsh, as of a Pandanus ; 

 tips long attenuate, trigonous, aculeate. Inflorescence 1 in diam., rigid; bracts 

 short, ovate,, brown. Spikes i in., ellipsoid, brown. Braeteoles ovate, obtuse, rigid, 

 incurved, entire at apex. Sguamellte nearly as long as bracteole, brown. Nut not 

 seen.— Closely allied to M. palustris ; spikes and spikelets rather smaller. 



4. US. andamanica, C. B. Clarke ; scape 4-12 in. smooth upwards, 

 leaves broad almost flaccid smooth on keel beneath, braeteoles f in. 



