Scleria.] glxxii. oTPBBAOEiB. (G. B. Clarke.) , 689 



spikelets somewhat large lanceolate hairy, style 3-fid, nut small globose as 

 though softly gloohidiate. Thw. Enum. 354 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 

 449. S. stricta, Moon. Cat. PI. Geyl. 62. Hypoporum oapitatura, Wees i;i 

 Linnsea, ix. 303, & in Edinb, Phil. Journ. xvii. 267, & in Wight Gontrib. 

 118. 



Ceylon, Macrae, &c.— Dibteib. Borneo. 



In the Ceylon specimens — Stemi 4-8 in. Leaves lanceolate, tip snbobtuse. Sead 

 globose, of about 12 spikelets. Spikelets all unisexual (not a Sypoporum), ned.v\y 

 i in. long, ferruginous ; female glume mucronate. Nut about J^ in. Disc minute, 

 patent, margin as long as contracted base of nut, pale, truncate scarcely 3-lobed. — 

 The Ceylon specimeus (not plentiful) have uniformly small 1-headed specimens, but 

 are a small form of a Borneo plant, which is a foot high with the lower axillary head 

 of spikelets remote. 



, Sect. 2. Elatx. Robust plants with thick (except in 8. psilorrkiza) 

 woody horizontal rhizome. Leaves (in many) caudate-setaoeoas at tip. 

 Partial panicles rigid, often pyramidal. Lobes of disc-margin entire [or 

 slightly digitate in 8. multifoliatal. 



* Sheaths {of middle stem-leaves) winged (sometimes in 8. data, and 8. 

 cMnensis obscurely). 



13. S. hebecappa, Nees^ in Linnsea, ix. 303, and in Wight Gontrih. 

 ' 117 ; scarcely robust, slightly hairy (see also var. j3), panicle thin scarcely 

 rigid, style 3-fid, nut minutely velvety, lobes of disc-margin lanceolate 

 thin brown concavely applied to nut. Thw. Enum. 435 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, 

 xxxviii. 478. S. alata. Moon Cat. PI. Geyl. 62. S. scrobiculata, Zoll. 

 Verz. Archip. Ind. ii. 61 {not of Nees). S. stipularis, Thw. Enum. 3-53, 435 

 (notofNees). — Scleria, Wall. Gat. 3415. 



Throughout India (except the N.W. arid region), alt. O-5000 ft., and Ceylon, 

 common. — Distbib. Malaya, China, Japan, Australia, Polynesia. 



Rhizome i in. in diam., clothed by ovate striate dark-red scales. Stems usually 

 2-3 ft., occasionally taller ; sheaths (or some of them) usually distinctly S-winged. 

 Leavu 1 ft., margins scabrous (cutting) in dried specimens more or less revolute, 

 usually long acuminate, occasionally snbobtuse. Panicle 1 ft. long, oblong ; partial 

 panicles usually thin lax of few spikelets, but sometimes stouter pyramidal, their 

 bracts often much exsert conspicuous, but sometimes short. Spikelets all unisexual ; 

 fem. \ in., slightly scabrous scarcely hairy ; fem. glume mucronate ; superior sterile 

 rudiment usually present. Nut yL in. long, ovoid, obscurely trigonous, narrowed at 

 apex, straw-colrd. or brown, nearly always obscurely reticulated, margins of reticu- 

 lations microscopically brown-hispid, or finally glabrate almost shining. Lobes of 

 disc margin as much as i— j height of nut. 



Var. pubescens (sp.), Steud. Syn. Cyp. 168 ; more hairy, sometimes softly 

 villous. Benth. Fl. Eongk. 400. S. vestita, Boeck. I. c. xx'sviii. 482. S. villosula. 

 Wall. Oat. 3414. S. sumatrensis, var. /3, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 344 {not of Rein). — 

 From Sikkim and Assam to Chota Nagpore, Malaya, China.— Leaves often softly 

 villous beneath. Khachis of panicles very hairy. Spikelets sometimes hairy. 



14. S. Thomsonlana, Boech. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 479 ; robust, gla- 

 brous (even rhachis of panicle), partial panicles remote narrow slenderly 

 pednncled, style 3-fid, nut tessellated minutely hairy,. lobes of disc-margin 

 3 very short thickened reflexed yellow-brown. S. khasiana, Boeck. Cpp. 

 Nov. ii. 29.— Scleria, sp. 12, Herh. Ind. Or. E.f et T. T. 



Khasia Htlls ; on the southern slope, alt. 0-3000 ft., from Chela to Lakhat, 

 J. D. H. ^ T. T., &o. MuHEYfOOE, alt. 2500 ft., 0. B. Clarke. 



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