652 OLXXIL cYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Bulbostylis. 
8 " h.). 
Sch. Syst, Mant. ii. 533. I. capillaris, Don Prodr. 39 (not Roem. & Se 
I. Costa Ai and I. involuccllata, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 101. I. ENN 
Hochst. ; see Boeck. l.c. 752. Fimbristylis monandra, Roem. & Sch. Ca 
Mant. ii. 59. F. barbata, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 321.— Burm. . 
Zeyl. t. 47, fig. 2.—Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3481, 3497. , 
Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-4000 ft., from KASHMIR and AssAM to CEYLON an 
SrNGAPORE. —DisTRIB. Warm regions. . 
Stems tufted, 2-10 in., bristlo.Iike; striated. Leaves as long as $ stem 5 sheaths 
usually with needle-like hairs at least in their throat. Capitulum Y $ lanceolate. 
bracts shorter, or much longer, than head. Spikelets 373 iD., ob Sch margins 
Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, scarcely acute, rusty brown with. green keel, 
minutely ciliate, sides puberulous or glabrate, Nut as long as 3 glume. 
Var. pulchella (sp.) Thw. Enum. 350 (under Isolepis); d glumes ZC 
lanceolate longer more rigid than in B. barbata type. Scirpus hwan th Madras. 
in Linnea, xxxviii. 380,—Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3480, B. 3481 VLC " Thwaites 
Pondicherry ; Perrottet; Tuticorin ; Wight n. 2891, Wallich. Cey ons cies, but 
n. 829, 3761), &c.— The type form of this var. looks aseparable spe 
. i e; 
there are intermediates which I cannot sort between the two; Wight r 
all as one species. 
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2. B. subspinescens, C. B. Clarke; stem hairy with ic 
spikelets in an almost prickly head, style 3-fid, nut pale brown. 
Orissa; Poori, W. S. Atkinson, Clarke. stem. 
Whole plant pubescent. Stems 4 in., rigid, curved. Leaves as long ut ng as 
Spikelets nearly 4 in., hard, almost stellately spreading; bracts a "e barbata, of 
the head. Glumes scarcely keeled, densely pubescent.—Otherwise as ». 
which it might be treated as a var. growing in sea sand. 
brous, 
3. B. capillaris, Kunth Enum. ii. 212 (see p. 205) Nc" 3-fid, 
spikelets nearly all solitary in a simple or compound ME nt. 821. 
nut pale transversely undulate. Scirpus capillaris, Linn. Mant. 
cose not 
Var. trifida (sp.) Kunth Enum. ii, 218; nut smooth or often verry 
& Wall.) 
transversely undulate. Scirpus densus, Wall. in Boch Fl. Ind. (d Er? in Journ. 
i. 231. S. gracillimus, Boeck. in Linnea xxxvi. 761. 8. "än, chey Cat. Pl. 
Bot. xvi, 112. Isolepis trifida, Nees in Wight Contrib. 108 ; densa Roem. 4 
Kumaon, 73; Thw. Enum. 350. I. tenuissima, Don Prodr. 40. I. Steud 
Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. 71; Nees in Wight Contrib. 109. I. trichokolea, 111 ` 
96 ; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 308. Fimbristylis capillacea, Steud. l. c. LI. 
É — Isolepis, 
laris, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 322 (partly) ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 390. 
Wall. Cat. 3476. 
_pisrris. Warm 
Very common from the HIMALAYA, alt. 0-8500 ft., to CEYLON. Dis 
regions of Old World, es as long 9* 
Stems tufted, 4-10 in., slender, striate, glabrous under umbel. T at least n 
3—4 stem, bristle-like, nearly glabrous; sheaths with, needle-like m- 
: id or 
2-1 spikelets. Spikelets in the Indian plants solitary, $ 1n» ellipse alons, g 
6-15-fd. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, obtuse, brown or blackish, pU some Indian 
green scarcely excurrent in a muero. Nut as long as $ gur. separate we? 
specimens have stems 16 in. with large compound umbels.—1 c utermos cells 0 
specifically from the American type capillaris; the shape of the o ríectly 
J ` . : n impe 
the nut is identical in the two, the superficial difference in marking 1$ ofte 
developed. 
bescent OF 
4. B. puberula, Kunth Enum. ii. 213 (see p. 205); stem P" 
