557 



Spec. Chae. Spikes compound and decompound, oblong, solitary 

 or twin, lowest one long-peduncled, rest somewhat enolosed-pedun- 

 cled, upperj ones confluent : rhaohis hirsute : spikelets alternate, 

 approximate, ovate, few-flowered, males at the extreme apex : 

 stigmas 3 : fruit patent, oblong, trigonal, long-beaked, subulate- 

 acuminate scale : leaves linear, beneath and with the sheaths hairy.. 



Peninsula. 



(17) C. BACCANS. ^N. ab. E.) 



Ident. Nees. ab. Esenb. 1. c. p. 122. 



Spec. Chak. Spikelets compound, enclosed-peduncled, lower 

 ones remote : rhachis triquetrous, scabrous, stiff : spikelets cylindrio, 

 males at the top, lower ones of the spikes twin or in. three's : stig- 

 mas 3 : fruit ovate, inflated, gibbous and angular at the back, 

 short-beaked, patent recurved, nearly equaUing the ovate, bristly 

 cuspidate scale : aU the bracts leafy, and with the leaves broadish- 

 Unear, scabrous at the edges, equalling the triquetrous culm. 



Peninsula. 



(18) C. Li&TiiATA. fN.ab.E.J. 



Ident. Nees. ab. Esenb. 1. c. p. 127. 



Spec. Chae. ' Male spike soUtary, females somewhat in fives, 

 approximate, exserted-peduncled, erect, narrow-cylindric : stigmas 

 tern : fruit oblong, trigonal-gibbous, beaked, roughish pubescent, 

 2-nerved : scales ovate, females short-awned, muticous : culm 

 trigonal, leafy at the apex : leaves and bracts sheathed and Hgulate, 

 flat, longer than the culm. 



Peninsula. 



(19) C. SPICITDATA. (Boott.) 



Idmt. Boott. Caric. nov. 139.— Steudel 1. c. p. 188. 



Spec. Cb:ae. Culm slender, firm, smooth,- 2-feet, base covered 

 with rusty lacerated sheaths: leaves equalling the culm : spikes 4 — 5, 

 eyUndric, pale, erect, androgynous, males at the apex, upper ones 

 approximated, sessile, lowest one somewhat remote, peduncled: 

 stigmas 3 : fruit triquetrous-elliptic, cyliadiic-beaked,- 2-cleft, 

 stalked, longer than the lanceolate acuminate or hispid-cuspidate 

 scale. 



Shasia hiUs. 



(20) C. MEECAEEMIS. (Soohst.) 



Idmt. Hochst. in Herb.— Hohenhack Ind. or. 943.— Stendel 1. 

 c. p. 194. 



