554 



scales oblong, awned, yellow, equalling the fruit: culm slender: 

 leaves narrow, scabrous and with the bracteal ones elongated. 



Peninsula. 



(5) C. PHACoiA. fSpreng.J 



Ident. Spreng, syst. III. 826.— "Wight Contrib. p. 126. 



Syn. C. lenticularis, Don. flor. Nep. 43. 



Spec. Chae. Spikes cylindric, somewhat in fives, approximate, 

 nodding : lower ones females, males at the top, terminal one, and 

 twin terminal ones male : bracts leafy, without sheaths : stigmas 

 two : fruit obovate, cuneate at the base, very shortly rostellate, 

 papillosely shining, depressed : scales obcordate, bristly-awned 

 from the sinus : female awn longer than the scale and fruit : culm 

 very narrowly triquetrous : leaves and bracts exceeding the culm, 

 linear, flat, scabrous at the margin and keel. 



Peninsula. 



(6) C. "WAiLiCHiAifA. fPrescott.) 



Ident. N. ab Esenb. in "Wight Contrib. p. 129. 



Spec. Chae. Male spikes in threes : females twin, remote, sub- 

 sessile, erect, cylindric : bracts leafy, almost without sheaths, 

 long : stigmas tern : perigynium of the flower strongly 2-toothed, 

 hairy : scales oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat awned, pale- 

 green, males broader, repand, membranaceous. 



Oude. 



(7) C. DoHiASTA. fSpreng.j 



Ident. Spreng. syst. III. 825.— "Wight Contrib. p. 128. 



Syn. C. chlorostachys, Don. flor. Nep. 43. 



Spec. Chae. Female spikelets in threes or fours, slightly erect, 

 cylindric, short-peduncled, male solitary : lower bracts leafy, 

 without sheaths : fruit spreading, ovate-lanceolate, margin acute, 

 attenuated into a flat 2-toothed beak, obsoletely nerved, glabrous : 

 scales subulate-lanceolate from a broader base, scabrous, white- 

 membranaceous, narrow, shorter than the fruit : leaves linear, flat, 

 scabrous at the margin : culm triquetrous. 



Silhet. 



(8) C. sPECiosA. (Kunth.j 

 Ident: Kunth Enum. pi. II. 504. 

 Syn. C. concolor, Wight Contrib. p. 125. 



