Erophorum.]  CLXXII, CYPERACER. (C. B. Clarke.) 665 
ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 8-16,000 ft.; head of Jumna Valley, Jacquemont; 
Nynee Tal, Thomson ; Chupcha in Bhotan, Griffith. 
This may be regarded as a depauperated alpine form of E. comosum; but the 
examples are numerous, exactly alike, from distant localities ; and there are wanting 
intermediate forms. 
12. FUIRENA, Hai, 
Stem bearing leaves or leaf-like bracts even in its upper half. Leaves 
grass-like, base sheathing. Spikelets clustered, with numerous perfect 
flowers, tabescent at top. Glumesimbricate on all sides, strongly aristate, 
ary in upper half. Hypogynous bristles 6 (3 in the position of sepals, 3 
of petals) or much reduced, or 0; 3 sepals bristle-like, 3 petals (in the 
typical species) battledore-shaped. Stamens 3 anticous, or 2. Style long, 
slender, glabrous, finally deciduous ; branches 3, long. Nut small, obovoid, 
or ovoid, triquetrous, more or less stalked, smooth reticulated or trabecu- 
late, usually narrowed at top often with a minute beak (which may be the 
persistent style-base).—Species 25, scattered all warm regions. 
The spikelets with the stem leafy in upper half, are like no other sedges but the 
d tatice section of Scirpus, from which Fuirena is known by its strongly aristate 
umes, 
li Sect. I. Pseupo-Scrrpvus. Three inner hypogynous bristles (petals) 
mear or narrow, or more often 0. 
LS, pubescens, Kunth Enum. ii. 182; spikelets in a terminal 
cluster (axillary clusters not rarely added), hypogynous bristles 0 or 
rudimentary linear, style 3-fid, nut smooth white not (or most minutely 
obscurely) reticulated. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 104 (excl. all Indian 
‘yus. and specimens). Scirpus pubescens, Lam. IUl. i. 139; Desfont. Fl. 
lant. i. 52, t. 10. Carex pubescens, Poir. Voy. en Barb. ii. 254. C. 
retii, Linn. Syst. [ed. Gmelin] ii. 140. Isolepis pubescens, Roem. d 
Beh. Syst. ii. 118; 
PUNJAB; Thomson (Herb, Brit. Mus.).—DisrRIB. S.W. Europe, all Africa. 
Rhizome creeping, short. Stems 12-20 in., triquetrous, glabrous except at top. 
Leaves 2-8 by 4 in., glabrous or hairy. Spikelets in clusters of 5-1, ovate-oblong, 
i m. long; bracts as long as spikelets (occasionally very much longer). Gunes 
wid black or glaucescent, often somewhat regularly 5-ranked. Nut subsessile ; 
Pyramidal, minutely scabrous. 
2. F. Wallichiana, Kunth Enum. ii. 182; spikelet-clusters cory mbed, 
hYpogynous bristles 0 or linear (see also var.), nut slenderly striate longi- 
tudinally finely trabeculate between strim. F. cuspidata, Kunth l. c, 187 j 
az, & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 286. F. pubescens, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 10 
QU Indian syns. and specimens, not of Kunth). Scirpus cuspidatus, 
th. Nov. Pl. Sp. 31.—Fuirena, Wall. Cat. 3545. 
N.W. In (ch; Sutledge Valley, Thomson. CENTRAL 
Innia ; Goona, “to. Kin Men ; Duthie. Poona; Jacquemont. BOMBAY, 
Hardly dist ishable from F. pubescens, Kunth, but by the elegantly striate 
gut, an more compoundedly eorymlose inflorescence. Leaves and sheaths glabrous. 
pauls often $-2 nut, linear, often unequal, retrorsely scabrous or smooth, often ' . 
stals always 0 (exce] tin var). Wut ellipsoid, triquetrous, narrowed at both ends, 
Yellow brown or testaceons : beak small, pyramidal, hardly scabrous ; outermost 
tells transversely oblong, superimposed regularly in longitudinal series. 
