692 CLxxii. CYPBRACEiE. (0. B. Clarke.) [Scleria. 



KH4SIA and Naga Hills, and Muneypooe, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. i). H.^T. T., 

 C. B. Glarlee, Watt. 



Rhiznme f— i in. in diam., covered by small ovate striate black-red scales. Stems 

 3 ft., glabrous. Lewoes up to 1 ft. by i in., tip setaceous, glabrous or hairy ; sheath 

 usually wiogless or occasionally distinctly 3-winged. Spihelets nearly as in S. elata. 

 Nut i in. long, young white shallowly tessellate, mature smooth shining. — Most easily 

 known from the S. elata by the panicle-branches ascending (not rectangularly divari- 

 cate). In the specimen Hooker sent to Berlin, the panicle is contracted into a dense 

 ellipsoid-oblong compound spike, and Boeckeler founded the species on this character ; 

 but in well evolute examples, the panicle is large compound — the lower partial 

 panicles several, 8 in. apart. 



22. S. khasiana, 0. B. Clarke (not of Boeclc.) ; robust, softly hairy- 

 all over, partial panicles 1-3 lanceolate or subovoid branches erect, style 

 3-fid, nut reticulate hairy, lobes of disc-margin short ovate erect minutely 

 apiculated. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 4500-5750 ft., C. B. Clarice. 



Similar and allied to S. Hookeriana, but less robnst, more hairy, nut more 

 reticulated, lobes of disc-miirgiu erect, lanceolate-candate. Leaves long-setaceous at 

 tip, very hairy ; sheaths densely (usually retrorsely) hairy. Spikelets (except brac- 

 teoles) nearly glabrous, often brown sometimes chestnut. 2fut -jL in. long, ultimately 

 reticulated hairy ; tails of lobes of disc-margin reaching to i height of nut. — S. 

 lehasiana, Boeck., is S. Thomsoniana. 



23. S. junciformls, Thw. Enum. 354 (not of Kunth) ; medium-sized, 

 hairy, rhizome short branched, panicle narrow, spikes distant, style 3-fid, 

 nut largeiah obtuse obscurely reticulate, disc-margin truncate lobes very- 

 short -reflexed. S. hirsuta. Moon Cat. PI. Ceyl. 62 ; Trimen, Gat. PI. 

 Ceyl. 103 (not of Boeclc.). S. pilosa, Boeck. in lAnnsea, xxxviii. 473. Cylin- 

 dropus junciformis, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 303, & in Edinh. Phil. Journ. xvii. 

 266, and in Wight Contrib. 118. 



Cetlon; Reingan Corle, Thwaites (C.P. 3225). 



Shizome | in. in diam., contorted. Stem nearly 3 ft., rather slender. Leaves 

 up to 18 by i in., tip lanceolate subobtnse. Panicle very slender ; lowest partial 

 panicle (spike-like) 1 in., nodding on a slender peduncle 2-4 in. Spikflets nearly 

 i in., ferruginous, almost glabrous, no bisexual spikelets seen. Nut \ in. long, as of 

 S. tessellata. — Approaches S. tessellata by its subobtuse leaves and infl., but the 

 rhizome differs. 



24. S. melanostoma, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 514; nearly gla- 

 brous except rhachis of panicle, leaves at nearly regular distances, sheaths 

 hot winged, ligule short narrowly scarions-margined, partial panicles 

 distant pyramidal, nut tessellated pale or often becoming fuscous-black, 

 disc-lobes very short depressed ovate. S. Hasskarliana and S. Plcemii, 

 Boeck. in Engler, Jahrb. v. 511, 513. S. melanosperma, Nees & Am. mi. 

 in Herh. Wight, n. 2377.— Scleria sp. 15, Herb. Ind. Or. S.f. |- T. T. 



Bengal and Khasia Hills, frequent, Griffith, &c. Deccan Peninsula ; Cour- 

 tallmn, Wight. — Disteib. Java. 



This species is S. elata, without wings to the leaf-sheaths, and like it varies from 

 1 to 8 ft. As to the colour of the nut, white and discoloured blackish nnta occur 

 often in one panicle. — Some of Hooker's Scleria, n. 15, is S. elata, and it was all 

 formerly so named by Boeckeler, 



tt Leaves (that is those next below the bracts) imperfectly (falsely) 

 opposite or ternate. 



