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Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 687. Scleria lateriflora Boeck. ! in Linnsea 38 
(1874) 455. 
Luzon, (808 Loher) ■ (3665, 4617' Merrill) . 
Ceylon to New Caledonia, scattered. 
This species is very near Scleria annularis Kunth, but the inflorescence is looser 
and with divaricate and nodding branches. 
(5) Plants more robust, with woody horizontal rhizomes. 
* Sheaths of the leaves 3-ioinged. 
7. Scleria hebecarpa Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) 117. 
Nut slightly verrucose, hairy; lobes of the disc lanceolate, appressed 
to the nut. 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 689; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. 36 (1903) 264. 
Scleria scrobiculata Moritzi ! Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 98, partim; Steud. ! in Zoll. Verz. 
Ind. Archip. heft 2, 61, non Nees. S. Japonica Steud. ! Cyp. 169. S. Wichurai 
Boeck. ! in Engl. Jahrb. 5 (1884) 510. 
Luzon, Manila, (Wichura) . 
India, frequent, to Japan and the Yiti Islands. 
8. Scleria Chinensis Kunth, Enum. 2 (1837) 357. 
Nut yerrucose or tessellate, hairy ; lobes of the disc short-ovate, rounded. 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 690; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 263; 
Merrill in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 1 : 31. Scleria scrobiculata Moritzi 
! Yerz. Zoll. Pfl. 98 partim. 
Luzon, (804 Loher) ; (3964, 3958 Merrill) . 
China to Singapore, Malaya and Queensland. 
9. Scleria oryzoides Presl, Bel. Haenk. 1 (1828) 201. 
Panicle-branches numerous, suberect, long, with many solitary spike- 
lets ; nut smooth, margin of the disc truncate. 
Miq. FI. Nederl. Ind. 3: 342; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 691. 
Luzon, (Haenlce) ; (144 Merrill). 
Southern India to north Australia, frequent; also received twice from Mo- 
zambique. 
10. Scleria purpureo-vaginata Boeck. ! in Engler Jahrb. 5 (1884) 513. 
Nearly glabrous, leaves appearing in twos and threes, subopposite; nut 
white, tessellated ; lobes of the disc short-ovate, obtuse. 
Scleria sumatrensis Vidal ! Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 285, non Retz. 
Luzon;- (1936 Vidal)-, (1852 bis Wichura ); (34 Whitford) . Negros, (95 
Copeland). Palawan, (353 Bermejos) . 
Ceram Laut. 
The falsely opposite or ternate leaves brings this plant apparently near the 
group of Scleria Sumatrensis. The present species has strongly 3-winged leaf- 
sheaths which separates it. As regards S. Sumatrensis Retz., an abundant species, 
it has a very tall disc sticking up and encircling the nut up to two-thirds its 
height, which makes the species an easy one to recognize. 
