550 



Spec. Chab. Spikelets sub-capitate : heads fascicled, corymbose : 

 corymbs axillary, decompound, terminal one supra- decompound, 

 many-flo-wered, erect : bracts setaceous : leaves broad-Hnear. 



Peninsula. 



SECT. V. SCIiEBISrE^. 



GENUS XVII. SCLEEIA. 

 Vriandria monogynia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Scleras hard, alluding to the fruit. 



Gen. Chae. Monoecious : male spikes intermixed with the 

 fewer female or androgjmous ones, many-flowered : scales imbri- 

 cated, outer ones somewhat distichous, empty : stamens 3, seldom 

 2 — 1 : female spikes 1 -flowered : scales few : style undivided : 

 androgynous spikes very like the females, many-flowered: lower 

 flower female, rest males : achenium stony or crustaceous and 

 fragile, supported by a disc : disc more or less 3-lobed, often 

 ciliated, flmbriated, serrated and cut, or cut and many-cleft, slowly 

 bipartible : upper part adnate to the fruit, lower to the bottom of 

 the spike. — Culms triangular, leafy : leaves 3 — 5-nerved, somewhat 

 plaited, usually grassy, rigid : sheaths in front (at the side opposite 

 the origin of the leaf) usually prolonged into a more or less elon- 

 gated strap : spikes panicled, fascicled, racemose or verticillately 

 spiked, females sessile, aales usually pediceUed, more numerous. 



(1) S. IITHOSPEHMA. fTFilld.J 



Ident. Willd. Sp. iv. 316.— Wight Contrib. p. 117. 



8yn. Scirpus lithospermus, Linn. — S. tenuis, Eoth. 



Engrwo. Eheede Mai. xii. t. 48. 



Spec. Chae, Glaucous : culms slender, triquetrous : leaves 

 narrow-linear, scabrous on the margin : sheaths triquetrous : strap 

 short, rounded : peduncles axillary and terminal, simple or branched, 

 few-spiked : spikes in twos or threes : achenium ovate-eUiptic. 



Peninsula. 



(2) S. TESSBLLATA. (WUld.j 



Ident. 'WiUd. Spec. iv. 315.— "Wight Contrib. p. 118. 



Syn. S. Hflora, Roxb. 



Spec. Chae. Culms triquetrous : leaves flat, serrulate and 

 scabrous at the margin, sub-membranaeeous : sheaths triquetrous, 



