Eleocharis.] ` CLXXI CYPERACE&, (C. B. Clarke.) 627 
nearly an inch acute, bristles 6 as long as the cancellate nut retrorsely 
scabrous, style usually 3-fid. E. acutangula and media, Schultes l.e. 91. 
E. planiculmis, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 80; Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 69. 
Scirpus fistulosus, Poir. Encycl. vi. 749. S. acutangulus and medius, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 913. Limnochloa media and acutangula, Nees in Wight 
Contrib, 114. Heleocharis fistulosa, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 472.— 
Eleocharis, Wa. Cat. 3453. 
From NEPAL and Assam to Burma and Cryzoy.—Disrris. Tropics 
y. 
Stems 1-3 ft. by iin. Spikeleé scarcely broader than the stem, dusky green. 
Glumes 4 in., suberect, obovate, rather laxly imbricate, dirty straw-colrd. Nut as 
long as j glume, unequally biconvex, obovoid, top narrowed ; style-base ovoid- 
conic; outermost cells transverse-oblong, superposed in 24—40 vertical series, nut 
ence longitudinally striate. 
6. B. spiralis, Br. Prod. 224 (in note); stems robust not transversely 
*ptate triquetrous under spikelet, spikelet 3-1 in. obtuse, glumes obtuse 
subtruncate, bristles much shorter than cancellate nut irregular smooth. 
tw. Enum. 352 (excl. syn. media). Scirpus spiralis, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 
®, t.15, fig. 1; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 212; Wall. Cat. 3454, B (partly). S. 
mutatus, Roxb. mss. Limnochloa spiralis, Nees in Wight Contrib. 114. 
8. INDIA; not common; E. BENGAL; Griffith; Kurz. BowBAY; Salsette, 
Jtequemont, Deccan PENINSULA; Wallich. BURMA; Griffith, &c. CEYLON; 
vaites, &e.—DIsTRIB. Mauritius ? . 
tems 2 tt. by i-lin. Spikelet 3-1 in. diam. ; very dense, marked by a spiral 
»* apparently i.e, the summits of the very erect close regular glumes.  Glwmes 
porate, summit much depressed triangular nearly truncate. Style 2-3-fd. 
ristles slender from 1-i the length of the glume, balf-obsolete. Nut half as long 
glume ; style-base often nearly confluent with nut; outermost cells shortly trans- 
red oblong, superimposed in 36—40 vertical series, so that the nut exhibits 36-40 
er striations, 
Sect. IT. E1zocenus, Nees in Wight Contrib. 112 (Genus); stems 
leder or medium; spikelets many or few-fld., usually wider than the 
H ms; glumes membranons, usually 1-3-nerved, keel green; style 2-fid.— 
‘leocharis ( Genus), Lestib. Essai Cyp. 41. 
l 7. B. atropurpurea, Kunth Enum. ii. 151; roots fibrous, stems 
“ender, Spikelet small ovoid or subcylindric, bristles retrorsely scabrous 
or 0, nut black smooth, style 2-fid base small depressed-conic white. 
Ne in Flora xxv. 641 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Bot. xxv. 269. Scirpus 
rig purpureus, Retz. Obs. v. 14; Roch, Fl. Ind. i. 219; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
m 97, t. 995. Eleogenus atropurpureus, Nees in Wight Contrib. 113. 
| - ]eocharis atropurpurea, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 454 (excl. var. y). 
*olepis, Wall. Cat, 3489. 
Est HIMALAYA, alt, 3000 ft, to Assam and CEYLON.—DisrRIB. Tropics 
y, exce " 
nat tems 2-6 pi TS 4—} in., many-fld. Giumes broad, obtuse, black-chest- 
nt, keel green. Bristles in the Indian tropical examples usually 7-5, as long as the 
inate the Himalayan (as in the European) examples O or very small. Nut 
* obovoid, compressed, as long as 4-3 glume. 
sil: E. capitata, Br. Prod. 225; roots fibrous, stems somewhat slender, 
elet small dense obtuse, bristles as long as nut retrorsely scabrous 
or ferruginous, nut black smooth, style 2-fid base small depressed 
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