CLXII. CYPERACE^, 
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wide. Umbel axillary and terminal, hairy, 2 in, long. Spikelets 
crowded in dense heads, 13 or fewer. Glumes oblong-ovate, with 
recurved mucro, liairy. Scales oblong spathulate, with a central 
tooth ribbed, chestnut-brown. Nut obovate trigonous, beaked, 
yellowish. Hab. Very common in ditches. Whole Peninsula from 
Singapore to Penang. Disirib. All the tropics. Native names : 
Kumput Kelulut (lit. Trigona-bce grass); Kumput Buku Buloh; 
Kumput Lida Menkarong. 
(2) F. glomerata Lam, III. i, 150; Clarke in Hook. fil. F.B.I. 
vi. 666; Ridl. Mat. iii. 81. 
Annual hairy herb, no rhizome. Culm 4 to 16 in. tall, slender. 
Leaves narrow, i to 3 in. long, ’12 in. wide. Spikelets in l to 3 
clusters of 3 to 10, -25 in. long. Glumes obovate oblong, mucro 
stout, hairy. Scales quadrate cordate clawed, 3-ribbed, brown, 
glabrescent. Style trifid. Nut triquetrous, long stalked and 
beaked. Hab. Rice-fields, Perak (Kunstler). Province Wellesley, 
Permatang Bertam. Lankawi. Kedah, Alor Sta. Kelantan, Glam 
wood, Kota Bharu (Ridley). Disirib. Old World tropics. 
10. LIPOCARPHA, Br. 
Glabrous plants. Culms leafy at base only, with a single terminal 
head of few spikelets. Glumes numerous, nalTow^ Flower with 
2 elliptic transparent scales enclosing the nut. Stamens i to 3. 
Style small slender, shortly bifid (rarely trifid). Nut small oblong 
cylindric or ovoid, plano-convex reticulated. Species 15, all 
warm regions. 
Spikelets white; glumes spathulate acute . . (i) L. argentea 
Spikelets green; glumes aristatc .... (2) L. microcephala 
(1) L, argentea A. Br. Appendix to Tuckey's Voyage to Congo, 
p. 349; Clarke in Hook. fil. F.B.I, vi. 667; Ridl. Mat. iii. 81. 
A tufted or solitary-stemmed plant. Leaves 4 to 10 in. long, 
■16 in. wide, linear acuminate. Culms 18 to 24 in. long, terete, head 
of I to 8 oblong blunt white spikelets -25 to -3 in. long. Bracts 
narrow to 4 in. long. Glumes oblong spathulate, tip acute, white, 
central line green. Scales lanceolate acute, as long as trifid style. 
Nut cylindric reticulate, yellow. Hab. Very common in damp 
spots all over the Peninsula from Singapore to Penang. Distrib. 
Tropics of the Old World. Native name : Rumput Rotan. 
(2) L. microcephala Kunth. Emnn. ii. 268; Clarke in Hook, 
fit. F.B.I. vi. 668 ; Ridl Mat. iii. 82. 
Culms very slender, 4 to 24 in. tall. Leaves nanmv, half as tall. 
Spikelets 3 to 4 in a head, '25 in. long (or less), oblong, obtuse, 
green. Bracts linear acuminate, 2 in. long or le.ss. Glumes narrow 
acuminate with a long recurved point. Scales very thin. Nut long, 
curved, cylindric. Hab. Local in open sandy spots. Singapore, Bukit 
Timah; Galang; Chan Chu Kang; Bukit Mandai. Penang, Gardens 
(Burkill). Kelantan, Kota Bharu. Distrib. China, Japan, Australia. 
