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pubenilous : strap short, rounded, stiff: panicles axillary and 

 terminal, simple, bracteate, androgynous : bracts long, subulate : 

 male flowers triandrous : achenium sub-globose, mucronate, tessel- 

 lated and cancellate, milky-wHtish, bairyish. at the prominent 

 margins, opaque. 



Peninsula. Lower Bengal. 



(3) S. PEEeEAcms. (Kunth.) 



Ident. Kunth Ennm. pi. II. p. 354. 



Syn. Hypoporum pergracile, Wight Contril. p. 118. 



Spec. Chab. Culms and sheaths triquetrous : leaves narrow- 

 Hnear, scabrous at the margia : spike compound, interruptedly 

 glomerate, slender : proper spikes congested by threes or twos, 

 somewhat 5-fl.owered, lower flower female, rest males : scales 

 mucronate : achenium depresso-globose, umbonate and somewhat 

 mucronate, trigonal, sub-eehinate and tubercled, milky-white, 

 shining : strap none. 



Silhet. 



(4) S. oEizoiDEs. fPresl.J 



Ident. Presl. in Eel. Haenk. III. 201.— Wight Contrib. p. 116. 



Spec. Chae. ^ Culm triquetrous : leaves slightly scabrous at the 

 margia : sheaths winged and triquetrous : panicle terminal, fasti- 

 giate : rachis scabrous : spikelets solitary, sessile, longer than the 

 bract : glumes ovate, acute, 1 -nerved, glabrous : fruit globose, very 

 smooth, very shortly apiculate. 



Peninsula. 



(5) S. SlTMATEENSIS. (Ret%.) 



Ident. Eetz. obs. v. 19.— Wight Contrib. p. 116. 



Spec. Chae. Culms triquetrous, glabrous: leaves rigid, elon- 

 gatedv Unear, very narrow at the apex, pubenilous beneath, scabrous 

 at th§ margin : sheaths triangular, puberulous, approximated by 

 threes, purplish, mouth truncated and rounded, fijtnbriate-ciliate : 

 panicles axillary and terminal, branched, pjrramidal, tadrogynous : 

 achenium globose, reticulated, ashy-dark : disc obsoletely 3-lobed, 

 lobes waved and crenated. 



Peninsula. 



