19, 8 Merrill: Burman’s Flora Indica 341 
unmistakably represent a cyperaceous plant; the inflorescences 
are distinctly grasslike, and the statement that the peduncles 
are sheathed to the middle would indicate that the inflorescences, 
drawn as attached to the vegetative parts of a cyperaceous plant, 
are indeed the upper parts of grass culms. 
FUIRENA Rottboell 
FUIRENA UNCINATA (Willd.) Kunth Enum. Pl. 2 (1837) 184. 
Scirpus uncinatus Willd. Sp. Pl. 1 (1797) 300. 
Scirpus capitatus Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 21. “Habitat in India.” 
This reduction follows C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. 6 (1893) 666. Burman’s specific name is much older than 
Kunth’s but is invalidated in Fuirena by F.. capitata Willd. 
ELEOCHARIS R. Brown 
ELEOCHARIS DULGIS (Burm. f.) Trin. ex Henschel Vita Rumph. (1833) 
186;, Merr. Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 104. 
Andropogon dulcis Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 219. “Habitat in India.” 
Hippuris indica Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 35. 
Carex tuberosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 35. 
This was based on Cyperus dulcis Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 7, 
t. 8, f. 1. The reference to Plukenet added by Burman typifies 
the var. 8 and cannot be interpreted as the type of the species. 
There is no evidence that Burman had an actual specimen. 
* ELEOCHARIS sp. 
Carex ovata Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 194 (err. typ. 294). “Java.” 
This has been placed as a wholly doubtful species of the section 
Primocarex, but I suspect that it does not belong in the genus, 
but perhaps in Eleocharis or possibly Fimbristylis, for no spe- 
cies of the section Primocarex is known from Java. The ref- 
erences to figures in Plukenet and Sloane cannot be interpreted 
as the type of the species in view of Burman’s statement that he 
had a Javan specimen. I have seen neither of the figures cited. 
SCLERIA Bergius 
*SCLERIA sp. 
Schoenus paniculatus Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 19. “Ilad. Javanis. 
ex India missa.” 
Burman’s description conforms better with the characters 
of Scleria bancana Miq. than with any other species known to 
me, but Rheede’s illustration cited by Burman as representing 
his species certainly does not represent Miquel’s species. Schoe- 
nus paniculatus Burm. f. has been referred to Scleria sumatrensis 
