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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Contributions to the botany of India / By Robert Wight. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![4. S. Javanus (N. ab E.:) culmo inferius subtrigono apice triquetro, capi¬ tulo polystachyo sessili denso involucro terminante recto acute triquetro tri¬ plo breviore, spiculis oblongis, squamis ovatis mucronatis striatis virescenti¬ bus fusco-marginatis, stylo trifido, caryopsi obovata plano-convexa laevi setas rigidas aequante.—IV. ab E. in Royle Cyp. n. 52.-In Java; Blume. Cey- lona; Macrae. Nepalia; Royle. Differt a praecedente statura paulo majore, culmo basin versus compresso- trigono, acumine longiore, spiculis majoribus, adeo in capitulo viridulis opacis. 5. S. (Heleopliila ?) Wallichii (N. ab E.:) culmo aphyllo involucroque erecto monophyllo longo tetragonis, vagina baseos truncata, spiculis sub- geminis ad speciem lateralibus ovatis acutis, squamis ovatis acutis margine albo-membranaceis in disco viridibus viridi-lineolatis, caryopsi obovato-sub- rotunda altero latere convexa altero concava transversim undato-subrugosa, stylo bifido.— Wall. eat. n. 3468 (ex parte).——Silhet; Wallich. Ob similitudinem S. junciformis inter Scirpos reliquimus, etiamsi (in uno specimine) omnes, quos vidi, styli bifidi (et completos equidem vidi) obser¬ varentur. 6. S .junciformis (N. ab E.:) culmo tereti, vaginis baseos aphyllis, florali culmo conformi eundemque continuante capitulum multoties superante in¬ curvo, spiculis ad speciem lateralibus 1-5 arcte sessilibus ovato-conicis, squa¬ mis subrotundis mucronulatis dorso herbaceo viridibus uninervibus ambitu membranaceis pallidis undique fusco-lineolatis glabris, stylo bifido altero ra¬ mo bifido, caryopsi obovata plano-convexa punctulata subtilissimeque oblique rugulosa pallida, setis rigidis denticulis retro spectantibus hispidis caryopsin aequantibus.— Wight. cat. n. 1898.—S. juncoides, Roocb.fi. Ind.l.p. 2$6; (ed. Wall. 1. p. 218.—S. supinus, Roocb. in ccet. mere. I. o. mus. tab. 742 (fide Arni) — Wall. cat. n. 3469 exci, a.)-Peninsula Indiae orientalis locis sidis uligi¬ nosis. In Benghalia inferiori, in Nepalia, Silhet; Wallich. In Java; Blume. Stylus minime bifidus, sed trifidus, scii, altero ramo paulo minus profunde diviso pro bifido, nisi accuratius circumspicias, ad speciem tantum bifidus. Squamis rigidulis dorso medio viridulis a plerisque confinium distinguitur, tum vero et habitu Junci filiformis grandefacti; a S. Wallichii nostro culmo distinguitur tereti. [Omnino eadem species, ut milii videtur, est Sc. debilis, Torrey et Bigelow (exemplis a Torrey et Greene communicatis), forsitanque etiam Muhlen- bergii quanquam descriptio in paucis haud quadrat.—Arn.] 7. S. Luzonensis (Presl.) culmo tereti, vagina mutica vel brevissime acicu- lata, involucro monophyllo longissimo culmum continuante, spiculis latera¬ libus subternis sessilibus ovatis, squamis late ovatis mucronulatis fusco-line¬ olatis nervo unico viridi, stylo trifido, caryopsi obovata plano-convexa rugu¬ losa, setis perianthialibus sex caryopsin aequantibus.—Presl. rei. Hcenk. 3. p. 193.-In Manila, ad lagunam de Bay ; Meyen. Ad Portum Sorzogon ; Hcenke. Descriptioni cl. Preslii addimus : spiculae saepe et geminatae; squamae dorso viridulae, latere pallidae, lineolis ferrugineis irroratae. Vaginae culmorum truncatas, foliolo exili subulato vix linea longiori culmoque adpresso praeditae. XXIV. ELEOGENUS.—Eleophila. Pal. de Beauv.—Heleogiton. Schult. Eleogiton cognomen jam a cl. Linkio aliter usurpatum; novum igitur Eleogeni no¬ men, cum Heleopliila nimis facile cum Heliophila commutari possit, imposui. l ' t/ § 1. Genuini, perianthio prcediti. 1. E. capitatus (N. ab E.:) radice annua, culmo breviusculo, spica ovato- subrotunda, squamis obtusis, perigynio setoso.—Wight. cat. n. 1899.—Eleo-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297023_0116.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
