Mmbrktyles.} cyperacf.^. 393 



!moSh !!f r-*"' f°i ^}\ ^''",'^'' '^^S^^% "^^^te. Nut sessile, dark-coloured, 

 4T2°not of Ne"ef ^ tuberculate.-J'. ^^j/b;^;,, Munro in Seem. Bot. Her. 



suk'inteaWnT; ^" ^}^ "«>gl;t'"i™g Samtong Island, m^^i. In the Indian Penin- 



not in dfSfd ^W "."^f Pf '' "E^?**'"-. "^^^ 'Pi'^^l^t' »'"'»»g'i «™"ded are distinct, 



not in detached clusters as m the true F.juncifolim. 



1 • V' ?^^- ^°™P^anata, Zw/J.- ^Ma, Enum. ii. 328. Stems 1 to U ft. 

 high, stifl and distinctly flattened. Leaves glaucous, firm, obtuse, 1 to \\ 

 lines broad usually much shorter than the stem. Umbel compound, Hke that 

 of j;-. diphi/lla, with 1 to 3 short stift" erect leafy bracts. Spikelets usually 

 numerous. 3 to 4 lines long. Glumes brown, pointed, usually with narrow 

 scanous edges. Style 3-cleft. glabrous. Nut sessile, minutely tuberculate. 



Hongkong, Harland, Wright. Widely spread over tropical Asia, ooourrine also in Africa 

 nd in tropical Brazil. 



13. r. miliacea, Vahl; Kunth, Enum. ii. 230. Stems slender, attain- 

 ing 1 to 2 ft. in height, more or less flattened and acutely 4-angled. Leaves 

 distichous at the base, narrow-linear, shorter than the stem, ending in long 

 fine points. Umbel compound, with 1 to 3 short fine leafy bracts. Spikelets 

 numerous, ovoid-globular, seldom above 1 line long. Style 3-cleft, ciliate to- 

 wards the top. Nut sessile, slightly striate and tuberculate. 



Hongkong, Hance, Wright. Widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa. In Wrights 

 and Wilford's collections are a few dwarf specimens scarcely 3 in. high. 



13. P. leptoclada, Benth., n. sp. A densely tufted slender species, 

 apparently annual. Stems filiform, 6 to 8 in. high. Leaves fihform, rather 

 shorter. Spikelets about 1 line long, obtuse, in clusters of 4 to 8, of which 

 there are in our specimens always 3, 1 sessile, with a leafy bract of 4 to 6 

 6 lines, the other pedunculate, (xlumes brown, very obtuse and emarginate, 

 strongly keeled, slightly scanous and minutely ciliate on the edge. Stamen 1. 

 Style 3-cleft, glabrous or nearly so, bulbous at the base. Nut sessile, but 

 only seen in a very young state. 



Hongkong, Wright. Not seen in any other collection. From the remai'kable glumes it 

 must be very near to the F. ciliolaia, Stead., fi'om Java ; but Steudel's character differs in 

 too many other points for me to venture on referring our species to his without actual com- 

 parison. 



7. ISOLEPIS, Br. 



Characters and habits of Scirpus, except that there are no hypogynous scales. 



A considerable genus, having .the same wide range as Scirpus, and might more naturally 

 be re-amalgamated with some of the sections of that genus. 



Spikelets about 2 lines long, in a dense terminal globular head. Stem and 



leaves subulate 1- ■'^ harbata. 



Spikelets 3 to 4 lines long, few together in an apparently lateral cluster. 



leaves vei-y short or none 3. Z supina. 



1. I. barbata, Sr.; Kuntk, Emtm. ii. 208. Stems tufted, veiy slender, 

 6 to 10 in. high. Leaves shorter, subulate. Spikelets nan-ow, acute, about 



2 lines long, in a dense terminal globulai- head, with 2 to 4 subulate leafy 

 bracts longer than the head. Glumes acute, with a strong gi-een keel, brown 



