628 CLXXII. CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Eleocharis. 
" . ibs. 
. Decne in Now. Ann. Mus. iii. 361 ; Thw. Enum. 351; Dalz, & G 
Ce) Fl. 985; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 299. Scirpus capitate we 
(partly); Roxb. F. Ind. i. 215. Eleogenus capitatus, Nees in We : » Wall 
119. Heleocharis capitata, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 461.—1soiept 
Cat. 3486, 3487, A, 3493. 
t 
BEHAR and BENGAL to CEYLON and SINGAPORE, not common. —DISTRIB. Mos 
warm countries. . - " 
Stems 2-14 in. Spikelet $- in., pale. Bristles 7, or fewer. P ros e 
2 glume, compressed, obovoid. —Usually easily distinguished from y the colo 
by its larger size; but small examples can hardly be separated except by 
bristles (which are glistening-white in E. atropurpurea). 
9. E. ovata, Br. Prod. 224 (in note) ; roots fibrous, seme "nime 
slender, spikelet small dense, bristles exceeding the nut retrorsa e br 
brown, nut straw-colrd. or brownish smooth, style 2- atus, Bot 
triangular. C. B. Clarke in Journ. Bot. xxv. 268. Scirpus Të cleoch ies 
Catal. i. 5. Eleogenus ovatus, Nees in Linnea, 1x. | 462 : Boiss. Pi 
ovata, Boeck. in Flora, xlii. 2, and in Linnea, xxxvi , 
Orient. v. 387. 
“opi d temp. 
INDIA; Wallich, 3487 (partly in Herb. Kew).—DrstR1B. Tropics an 
regions. the shape 
Very much resembles E. capitata, except in the colour of the nut, and 
of the style-base. 
. ing, stems 
10. E. palustris, Br. Prod. 224 (in note); rhizome creeping, nn, 
medium or stoutish, spikelet ellipsoid or cylindric dense? t Contrib. 113; 
or brownish, style 2-fid base conical or ovoid, Ne ees n Wig Nees l. 
C. B. Clarke in Journ. Bot. xxv. 267. E. uniglumis, iii, 38, t. 297 
Scirpus palustris, Linn. Sp. Pl. 70; Reichh. Ic. Fl. Germ, M 3, Fl. Orient: 
S. uniglumis, Link Jahrb. iii. 77. Heleocharis palustris, h 3f d style)— 
v. 386; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 466 (excl. examples wit 
Eleocharis, Wall. Cat. 3449, 3450, 3451, 3455. 
From the W. HiMALAYA, ascending to 12,500 ft., to Stala ya). 
Distr1B. Cosmopolitan (not known from Australia, Oceania or Ma y ermost sheath 
Rhizome black or chestnut. Stems 4-20 by j,—4 in. diam. 5, "i SSES 
truncate, on one side sometimes triangularly produced. Spi 1 west empty about 
chestnut or straw-colrd. Glumes obtuse, persistent, keel green, Lien, Bristles 6, 
i surrounding or (in form uniglumis) almost wholly surrounding ` ) reduced be 
as long as nut, retrorsely scabrous, rusty-brown, or (more tre escent top of t 
in numbers and length. Stamens 3, but in flowers near the ^ Jong as ret 
spikelet, and in small depauperated examples, 2-1. Nut as to a very or 
unequally biconvex, obovoid, much narrowed at top, someter uadrate-bexae° 
beak ; style-base contracted below on nut; outer cells of nut qure y - 
or shortly longitudinal oblong, obscure i.e. nut smooth; or very 
prominent, i.e. nut reticulated. 
d Bra 
put style 
Sect. ITI. ErzocHanIs proper.—As Sect. IT. (Eleogenus), 
3-fid.—Limnochloa, Lestib. Essai Cyp. 41 (not of Nees.) 
-oblong § 
* Aciculares. Nut trabeculate i.e. its outer transversely- -+ndinally 
cells superimposed in vertical series so that the nut appe 
striate. dote stems 
e iform, > 
ll. E. acicularis, Br. Prod. 224 (in note); rhizome fi Jate an 
capillary, spikelet slender few-fld., style 3-fid, nut oblong- 
