Eleoeharis.] CLXXII. CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 629 
cord. C. B. Clarke in Lond. Journ. Bot. xxv. 970. Scirpus acicularis, 
Linn. Sp. Pl. 71 (partly); Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 294, eleocharis ; Boeck. in 
imaa, xxxvi. 431. Cheetocyperus costulatus, Nees et Meyen Pl. Meyen, 
A MADRAS PENINSULA; Rottler (Herb. Kew).—DisTRIB. Europe, N. & E. Asia, 
merica, 
Stems 2-4in. Spikelet 1 in., with 4-6 (rarely 8-10) nuts. Glumes in the few- 
fd. spikelets subremote, lower 2-3-stichous, upper distinctly spiral. Bristles 3-4, 
white, feebly retrorse scabrid, variable in length, occasionally wanting. Nut as long 
as 3-3 the glume, polyhedral, subterete, with 12-15 longitudinal ribs; style-base 
small narrow bulbiform. 
** Chætarieæ. Nut coarsely prominently cancellate, i.e. its outer sub- 
quadrate large cells prominent. 
12. E. Cheetaria, Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 154 and Mant. ii. 90; roots 
fibrous, stems small, spikelet small few-fld., style 3-fid, nut triquetrous 
white truncate. E. setacea, Br. Prod. 224 (in note), not 225, Cyperus 
‘etaceus, Retz. Obs. v. 10; Doch, Fl. Ind. i. 185. Cheetocyperus Lim- 
nocharis, Nees in Wight Contrib. 96. Ch. setaceus, Nees in Linnea, ix. 
289; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 298; TÀw. Enum. 351. Heleocharis Chetaria, 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 428.—Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3485. 
BENGAL to CEYLON and Maracca.—DIstTRr1B. Tropics. . 
Rhizome 0, or sometimes nearly an inch, filiform, white. Stems usually 1-4 in., 
occasionally 6-10 in.; [uppermost sheath lax, whitened, scarcely torn. Spikelet i 
m., with 1-4 nuts.  Glumes subdistichous, upper spiral. Bristles 6, as long as nut, 
Tetrorse] y scabrous, pale, occasionally smaller or obsolete. Nu as long as j glume, 
the acute angles sometimes excurrent at its shoulder, outer cells in each face in 
Series, sometimes perforated, style-base depressed-conic. 
"- Leiocarpicæ. Nut smooth, ie. outer cells quadrate-hexagonal or 
shortly longitudinal oblong obscure so that the nut is neither distinctly 
striated nor distinctly reticulated. 
13. E. subvivipara, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 424 (Heleocharis) 
Cespitose, stems filiform, spikelet often proliferous, lower glumes 
3-stichous, nut obovoid much narrowed at top, style 3-fid base linear- 
‘onic, H. ezespitosissima, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 490. 
Bo HASTA Huus: alt. 4-5000 ft, C. B. Clarke; Nitauirt HiLLs (fide 
Keler).—Disrris. Madagascar. . 
Roots fibrous, or (fide Baker) slender stolons sometimes present. „Stems 4-16 
Vë uppermost sheath truncate. Spikelet 3-3 in., few-fld., sometimes longer 
“Avate with many empty lower glumes. Bristles 6, as long as -nut, retrorse- 
‘cabrous, pale ferruginous. Nut as long as j-$ the glume, trigonous, olive, 
narrowed at top into an exceedingly short narrow neck ; style-base very much 
ower than nut, wider than neck of nut. 
l4 m. affiata, Steud. Syn. Cup. 76; caespitose, stems slender 
ipPermost sheath truncate spikelet dense sometimes proliferous, nut 
i voad yellowish green, base large pyramidal, style 3-fid, Mig. Fl 
ge Bat. iii, 299. E. subprolifera, Steud. l.c. 80; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 
life Scirpus afflatus, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 394. Heleocharis subpro- 
pra, Boeck, in Linnea, xxxvi. 426. H. Thomsoni, Boeck. l. c. 451. H. 
*chrostachys, Boeck. l.c. 452 (not of Steud.). H. chlorocarpa, Boeck. in 
