424 cypebaoeas. [ Cladium . 
Stems terete ; leaves deeply channelled down the face. 
Glumes acute, brown to the tip 1 . C. Mariscus. 
Glumes with a distinct green cusp 2. C. ? xipholepis. 
Stems ancipitous ; leaves distichous, ( Vweentia , Kunth). 
The only species 3. C. iridifolium. 
1. C. Mariscus, JR. Br. ; Kuntli , Enum. ii. 303. Rootstock wide- 
creeping. Leaves in a dense basal tuft, 2-3 feet long, rigid, linear, acutely 
keeled, distinctly serrulate on the edge. Stem terete, 3-5 feet long, with 
many narrow linear leaves. Panicle lax, a foot or more long, the branches 
corymbose, the spikelets crowded at the end of the short branchlets, 
each in. long. Grlumes 5-6, unequal, scariose, lanceolate, acute, 
not distinctly keeled. Stamens 2. Style long, deeply trifid. Achene 
oblong, castaneous, glossy, mucronate. C. occidentale, Sieber, Herb. 
Maur. 27. 
Mauritius, on the banks of the stream at Moka, etc. Tropical and temperate 
zones of both hemispheres. 
2. C. ? xipholepis, Baker. Leaves many, in basal tufts, edged 
with red-brown at the base, narrow linear, ^ in. broad, 1J-2 feet 
long, rigid in texture, scabrous on the edges, deeply channelled all down 
the face. Stem terete, 1 J-2 feet long, with a few narrow linear leaves, 
the sheaths glossy, castaneous. Panicle lax, above a foot long, the 
spikelets contiguous, but not crowded, the end one distinctly peduncled, 
seen only in a young state. Grlumes 5-6, lanceolate, acuminate, glossy, 
brown with a green cusp, the outer one the largest, and its cusp the 
longest. Achene not seen. 
Seychelles, Dr. Wright ! Endemic. Requires re-examination in a more 
mature state. 
3. C. iridifolium, Baker. Tufts of leaves and stem crowded. 
Basal leaves 6-8, ensiform, flat, distichous, l|-2 feet long, \-l inch 
broad, sheathing at the base bv their inner borders. Stem 2-3 feet 
long, compressed, furnished with a few similar leaves. Spikelets £ in. 
long, arranged in a lax panicle J-l ft. long, in clusters of 2-3 together at 
the end and sides of the slender flexuose branchlets. Grlumes lanceo- 
late, acute, brown, membranous. Achene triquetrous, with a pyramidal 
beak as long as itself. Scirpus iridifolius, Bory Iter. ii. 34, t. 22, 23. S. 
lavarum, Foir. Encycl. vi. 738. Machserina anceps and lavarum, Bojer , 
Hort. Maur. 385. Yincentia latifolia, Kunth , Enum. ii. 314. 
Mauritius, in swamps both of the hills and plains. Also Bourbon. Macheerina 
restioides , Vahl, to which this has been referred, is a West Indian plant of similar 
habit, but with a perianth of bristles. 
15. RHYN CHOSPOR A, Yahl. 
Flowers usually one hermaphrodite, and one above it with stamens 
only, in a spikelet of 5-6 multifarious unequal glumes. Hypogy- 
