690 cxxxii. CTPERACBJE. ^C. B. Clarke.) ISeleria. 



Shizome J in. thick. Stems 3 ft. j sheaths broadly S-winged, sometimes obscurely 

 winged ; ligule glabrate or not, rarely densely hairy. Panicle often tinged red ; 

 lowest peduncle often 6 in. Spikelets like those of S. liebecarpa; disc margin almost 

 spongy shortly reflexed as three ears. — Most easily distinguished from S. elata by 

 the glabrous rhachis of 'the panicles. 



15. S. alta, Boerk. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 485; robust, glabrous (even 

 rbachis of panicle), partial panicles narrow somewhat remote, style 3-fid, 

 nut tessellated minutely hairy, lobes of disc-mai-gin 3 united at base 

 appressed to the nut pale green rounded crenate at summit. 



East Bbngal; Foot of Khasia Hills, Oriffith, J. V. M. ^ T.T ; Mudhopoor 

 Jungle, C. B. Clarice. 



Very near 8. Thomsoniana, except the lobes of disc-margin j secondary bract 

 longer, more conspicuous. 



16. S. elata, ITiw. Enum. 353, a {excl. C.P. 825); robust, more or 

 less hairy (at least rhachis of panicle), partial panicles distant rigid 

 pyramidal, style 3-fid, nut tessellated minutely hairy, lobes of the disc- 

 margin short obtuse or scarcely obtuse-triangular. Boeclc. in Linnsea, 

 xxxviii. 487. S. lithosperma, Mooch. Ft. Ind. iii. 574 (not of Willd.). S. 

 Hasskarliana, Boeck. in Engler Jahrh. v. [1884] 511. Diaphora cochiii- 

 chiuensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 709. — Scleria, Wall. Cat. 8408, A, 0. 



Throughout IwwA (except theN.W. arid region), alt. 0-2000 ft. , and Cetlon.^ 

 DiSTKiB. Java, China. 



Descr. of Thwaites, C.P. 3030. — Stem 3 ft. by -J in. in diam., glabrous. Leaves 

 1-2 ft. by J in., tip attenuated, margins scabrous, cutting the hand, when dry 

 recurved; sheath 3-winged, wings broad or narrow, two wings often much broadest ; 

 ligule depressed-ovate, h.iiry. Panicle 1 ft. by i in. ; partial panicles 4 by 3 in., 

 branches rectangularly divaricate, red, hairy. Spikelets numerous, all unisexual, 

 male and fem, scattered in all parts of infl. ; panicle dense, but spikelets scarcely 

 clustered. Fem. spihelets -J in. ; fem. glume shortly mucronate, glabrous, sterile 

 superior glumes tabescent (generally present). Nut ^^ij in., as of S. hebecarpa, 

 and similarly becoming glabrate ultimately, white or dusky ; lobes of disc-margin 

 scai'cely attaining i height of nut, ferruginous or red. — Thwaites says of his S. elata 

 " sheaths not winged," whereas Boeckeler puts it in his section having " trialate 

 sheaths." The explanation is that Thwaites described S. elata mainly from C.P. 

 n. 825 (which is S. chinensis, Kunth, var. ;8), while Boeckeler describes C.P. 3030, 

 which is the very common S. elata. Thwaites may, however, have rightly treated 

 this (winged leaf-sheaths) as of small importance. 



Var. latior ; stouter, stems often 6-9 ft. very thick, sheaths conspicuously winged, 

 panicles large dense, spikelets clustered dusky, nut larger white. — ^N.B. India, alt 

 0-3500 ft., common. 



Var. decolorans; robust, panicle dark-red, nuts larger early discoloured, finally 

 black-purple as are glumes. — Sikkim, Khasia, Muneypoor, alt. 3-6000 ft., common. 



17. S. chlnensis, Kunth Enum. ii. 357; similar to 8. elata, but 

 ligules with an ovate-oblong scarions brown elongation of their margin 

 ^l in. long. Boeck. in Linncea, xxxviii. 486. S. ciliaris, Nees in Wight 

 Contrlh.in {not of Mich.). S.' scrobiculata, Moritzi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 98 

 [not of Nees). 



SiNaAPOEE, BMley (n. 1556). — Disteib. China, Malaya, N. Australia. 



Var. biauriculata ; wings of leaf sheaths narrow or sometimes obsolete, scarious 

 margin of ligule shorter (J—i in. long), bi-oad obtuse very fragile bianriculato sit base. 



S. elata, T/m. Enum. 353, partly. S. exaltata, Boeok. in Engler Jahrh. v., p. 511. 



Ceylon, Thwaites. Singapore, Ridley (n, 1556). 



