Bulbostylis. | CLXXII, CYPERACER, (C. B. Clarke.) 653 
puberulous under umbel, umbel often congested (sometimes lax) spikelets 
solitary, style 3-fid, nut pale transversely wrinkled. Scirpus puberulus, 
Poir Encycl. vi. 767; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 767. S. Wightianus, 
Boeck. l.c. 765 (in great part). S. barbatus, Boeck. l.c. 751 (as to syn. 
Isolepis gracilis and Thwaites n. 834). T. gracilis, Nees in Wight Contrib. 
109 (not Linnea, x.161); Kunth l.c. 217; Thw. Enum. 350. ‘I. puberula, 
Steud. Syn. Cyp. 103. Cyperus pubescens, Steud. l c. 50. 
Deccan PENINSULA, Wight. Cxrton; Thwaites n. 834. Menger: Griffith. 
Matacca ; Kunstler, SINGAPORE ; DBurbidge.—DisTRIB. Trop. Africa, Malaya and 
Cochin China. 
Very near B. capillaris ; the spikelets are really solitary, but often closely packed 
in an umbel less than 1 in. diam. In Wight n. 1892 (type of Isolepis 
vei Nees) the stems are long, very slender; the umbel is lax, some pedicels 
in. long. 
10. SCIRPUS, Linz. (partly). 
Herbs of very various habit, all glabrous (or the inflorescence slightly 
hairy. Spikeleis usually many-fld. (lower glumes spirally imbricated) 
sometimes few-fld. (lower glumes subdistichous upper spirally imbricated). 
Glumes 1-2 (rarely 3) lowest empty, several (rarely 1) succeeding with 
Perfect nut-bearing flowers, upper tabescent. Hypogynous bristles 7-1 
setaceous, or 0, or (in S. littoralis and S. Isolepis) sometimes broad ovate. 
Stamens 3-1, anterior; anthers linear-oblong or oblong, crested or un- 
appendaged. Style long or short, glabrous, 3-fid or 2-fid, base linear 
or linear-conic, continuous with apex of nut. Nut trigonous or plano- 
convex, sessile or nearly so.— Species 125, all regions. 
This genus here includes (in several very dissimilar sections) all the scirpoid 
"Pedes left after the neighbouring genera have been taken out. Eleocharis and 
Fimbristylis differ by the enlarged style-base (separated from the nut by a constric- 
tion or a line); Fuirena and Bulbostylis have hairy leaves ; Eriophorum has bristles 
te, laciniate (to the base in the Indian species). 
Sect. I. MowosracHYr. Small or slender. Stems (or branches) with 
one Spikelet, Style long. 
l. S. fluitans, Lina. Sp. Pl. 71; stem weak elongate branched 
leaty upwards, bristles 0, style 2-fid, nut plano-convex o ovoid smooth 
pale. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 38, t. 298 (excl. the triquetrous nut) ; Boeck. 
innea, xxxvi. 485 (excl. var. y and part B). Isolepis fluitans, Br. 
Prodr, 291; Thw. Enum. 350. I. curvula, Kunth Enum. i. 189. I. cur- 
vata, Zoll, Verz, Ind. Archip. ii. 62. Eleogiton fluitans, Link Hort. Berol. 
^794. E. curvulus, Nees in Wight Contrib. 110. 
, Kuasra ; - Kent HILLS; Perrottet, &c. with more 
Te purple Ei (var. Vid CEYLON ; Thwaites, &c., with shortened curved 
in and clustered peduncles and leaves (var. curvula).—DistRiB. Nearly a 
ns, 
in, Zoot fibrous Stems 2-12 in. long, flaccid, in water or on mud. Leaves à-25 
"very narrow. Peduncles 1-4 in. ‘Spikelet j5-l in., many- or few-fid. lae 
lone D shorter than the spikelet, or 0. Glumes ovate, obtuse, concave, Zu as 
,E as 4-3 glume; outermost cells small quadrate-hexagonal obscure (i.e. nu 
Nooth or obsoletely reticulate). | 
2. S. submersus, Sauvalle Fl. Cuba, 175; stem weak elongate 
branched leafy upwards, bristles 6 overtopping nut, sty le 2-fid, nut (only 
