Seleria.'] clxxii. ctperace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 687 



parvnla, Steud. Syn. Oi/p. 169, 174. S. ullginosa, BoecJc. I. c. 471. — Seleria, 

 Wall. Cat. 3405 A. 



Throughout India (except the West arid area), alt. 0-8000 ft., frequent; from 

 Nepal and Muneypoor to Csylon and Piiau. — Distbib. Malaya, China, Japan, 

 Austral. 



Boots often black-red. Stems 1-2 ft. Leaves 4-10 by scarcely i in., lanceolate, 

 subobtuse (not acutely setaceous) at tip, hardly scabrous, with white hairs or gla- 

 brate j sheaths conspicuously winged or not. Panicle commonly straggling, lower 

 partial panicles on peduncles 0-5 in., narrow or condensed 1-2 in. long, but some- 

 times evolute more rigid subpyramidal. Fern, spikelets i in. long, ferruginous-green, 

 glabrous. Nut scarcely -Jj in. in diam., at first white, the raised reticulations 

 covered with minute ferruginous hairs, at last often nearly smooth shining white 

 shallowly reticulated. Disc small, salver-shaped, 3 lobes of margin triangular (rarely 

 lanceolate) reaching to |— i height of nut. 



6. S> biflora, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 573 ; slender, nearly glabrate, roots 

 fibrous, panicle elongate thin lower branches remote, style 3-fid, nut tesael- 

 late, lobes of disc-margin lanceolate acute or subulate erect stout ferrn- 

 ginous-browu. S. Steudeliana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 344 ; Boeck. in 

 Linnsea,xxviii. 475. S. tessellata, Benth. Fl. Songh. 399; Thw. Enum. 

 354, a [not g) ; Kunth Enum. ii. 343 {partly).— ^Aeria., Wall. Gat. 3405 B. 



Lower Bengal, WalUch ; Calcutta, C. B, Olarlce ; Mudbopoor Jungle, 

 C. B. Clarke. Cachar, Keenan. Ceyloit, Walker. — Distrie, Malaya, S. 

 China. 



Usually glabrous except the (so-called) ligule of leaf. Fern, glume scabrid on its 

 keel upwards, or smooth. Lobes of disc-margin reacliing to ^-J height of nut. — 

 This may be regarded as a var. of S. tessellata (which it altogether resembles), only 

 differing in the lobes of the disc-margin. 



7. S. Stocksiana, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 474 ; nearly glabrous, 

 panicle elongate thin lower branches remote, style 3-fid, nut tessellate, lobes 

 of disc-margin short ovate ferruginous their edges reflexed auriculate. S. 

 tessellata impart), Kerb. Ind. Or. Kooh.f. & T. 



Bombay, Xow. 



The examples show only panicles, without leaves or roots. Nut rather larger 

 and more glabrous than of S. tessellata. Disc dark red, glandular. — May have a 

 horizontal rhizome, and be more nearly allied to S. junci/ormis. 



** Nut smooth or very obscurely reticulated. 



8. S. annularis, Kwnih Enum. ii. 359 ; slightly hairy, rhizome 0, 

 panicles axillary remote oblong rigid, style 3-fid, nut ovoid stoney-white, 

 disc-margin trnncate. Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 456. Hypoporum annu- 

 lare, Nees ms. (Jide Kunth). 



N.-Wbst India, Royle. Bengal, Qriffith. Central India ; Chunda, ButUe. 

 Malabar, Lwib. — Distrib. China. 



Roots fibrous, dark-red. Stems 1-2 ft., slender or medium ; sheaths 3-winged, 

 hairy or glabrous. Leaves 4-8 by \ in., lanceolate, tip subobtuse. PamicZcs axillary, 

 often 1 by 5 in., subspicate, secondary bracts conspicuously exsert. Spikelets gla- 

 brous, very like those of S. tessellata. Nut ^ in., not apiculate, very smooth. 

 Disc obconic, as long as contracted nut-base, smooth, chestnut or reddish. — A well- 

 marked species, externally very like S. tessellata. 



9. S. zeylanica, Pair. Encycl. vii. 3 (exol. Madagasc.) ; slender, 

 nearly glabrous or thinly hairy, rhizome hardly any, panicles axillary 

 distant small; fem. glumes glabrous, style 3-fid, nut small (mature) white 



