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18. F. COmplanata, Link. Resembling the last two species, 

 but stem quite flattened below the inflorescence, and lowest brac;t 

 broad, flat and erect, like a continuation of the stem. Spikelet^^ 

 rather longer. Glumes very acute, keel long excurrent. Nut 

 pale, minutely tubercled, sometimes on\y on the shoulders. 



In water holes in various parts of the Presidency. Apparently uncom- 

 mon. (Warm regions of the Old World). 



(b) Var microcarya, Gke. " Stems slender, hardly flattened 

 under the umbel. Spikelets more slender. Nut very small, 

 velate." 



"Deccan, water holes at Hewra, Dalzell. Poona, Woodrow." Cooke. 

 I have not seen these specimens. There are no existing sheets in the 

 Presidency, but the available material of this species is very scanty. 



0. Stenophyllus, Eafin. 



(= BULBOSTYLIS, Kicnth.) 



Annuals. Stems very slender, tufted. Leaves flnely linear or 

 quite capillary. All parts of the plant liable to be hairy or pube- 

 rulous. Inflorescence capitate, or a simple or compound umbel, 

 but then always with one sessile spikelet in the fork of each 

 branch system. Bracts and bracteoles not prominent. Spikelets 

 few — 15-flowered always small and narrow. Glumes always with 

 a prominent green keel and yellow or brown side. Style 3-fid. 

 Nut small, always triquetrous or trigonous, white or nearly white, 

 ti-ansversely undulate (sometimes obscurely so) with a short stipe 

 and a (usually dark) umbo left by the style. (Species about 70. 

 All warm regions). 



This genus is very closely allied to Fimbristylis especially F. teneia and 

 its varieties. According to C. B. Clarke it is also closely allied to Eleo- 

 chai-is, but it would not appear so from the Bombay species of the two 

 genera. They are all plants of sand or light soil, especially the first two. 

 The three Bombay species are very closely allied to one another. 



Key to the genus :— 



1. Spikelets in a capitate head . . . . . 1. S. barbata. 



2. Spikelets in a contracted umbel or com- 



pound umbel, stem pubescent below the 



inflorescence ,. .. .. ..2. S. puberula. 



3. Spikelets in a lax umbel or compound 



umbel, stem glabrous below the inflores- 

 cence . . . . . . . . 8. *S. capillaris 



Var. trifida. 



1. S. barbata, Uotth. (under Sdrpus). Bulbostylis barbata, 

 Kunth. A small tufted herb, 2-8 inches high. 



The Bombay specimens show many conditions of glume, from simply 

 acute to acuminate with a recurved, scaberulous mucro, equalling and 

 even exceeding the glume. The Badami specimens especially with their 

 few-flowered spikelets and squarrose mucros look like a separate species 

 and this applies also to specimens collected by Fr. Blatter on Mt. Abu 



