Tab. 6282. 
HYPOLYTRUM latifolium. 
Native of Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago. 
Nat. Orel. Cyperace^e. — Tribe Hypolytreas. 
Genus Hypolytrum, Rich. ( Endl . Gen. Plant,]). 116). 
Hypolytrum latifolium ; culmis robustis 2-4 pedalibus lsevibus trigonis folio sis, 
foliis culmum longe excedentibus late linearibus f-1 poll, latis plicatis 
3-nerviis striatis rigidulis marginibus et interdum nervis subtus serrulato- 
scaberulis, corymbis terminalibus foliaceo-bracteatis, ramis robustis erecto- 
patentibus, ramulis divaricatis, spiculis floriferis cylindraceo oblongis pedi- 
cellis paullo longioribus, fructiferis squarrosis, squamis obovatis obtusis 
apiculatis obscure 3-nerviis, glumis 2 demum liberis carinatis, carina 
ciliolata, floribus diandris, stigmatibus 2, fructu squamam vix superante 
ellipsoideo-ruguloso apice acuto demum incrassato obtuso. 
H. latifolium, Rich, in Pers. Synops. vol. i. p. 70; Kunth , Enum. vol. ii. p. 271 ; 
Benth. Flor. Hough, p. 389; Thwaites, Enum. PI. Ceylon, p. 346 ; Kurz in 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xxxviii (1869) pt. 2, p. 72. 
H. giganteum, Wall. Cat. No. 3404 ; Nees in Wight's Contrib. p. 93, et in 
Linncea, vol. ix. p. 288= 
H. diandrum, JDietr. Sp. vol. ii. p. 365. 
Albikia scirpoides, Presl, Rel. Howie, vol. 1, p. 185, t. 35. 
Schcenus nemorum, Vahl, Symb. iii. p. 8 ; Enum, vol. ii. p. 227. 
Tug a diandre, Roxb. FI. Ind., vol. i. p. 184. 
It is very rarely that a Cyperaceous plant has found a place 
in the Botanical Magazine. Now, however, that elegance 
of form is beginning to be appreciated in cultivation, both 
Gramineee and Cyperacese will claim a consideration which 
has hitherto been bat grudgingly awarded to them. The 
plant here figured was sent to Kew from Ceylon by Dr. 
Thwaites, an excellent judge of what is horticulturally an 
acquisition, as a very ornamental one, and well worthy of 
cultivation in a tropical house. And this it has proved from 
its graceful bright green foliage, its rich brown inflorescence, 
and its permanent freshness. The genus Hypolytrum is a 
