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7. S. maritimus, Linn. Tall, o feet. Khizomt- creeping- 

 bearing tubers. Spikelets dull pale brown or whitish, tt x 5^ in. 

 Nut trigonous, pale, smooth. 



Throughout tho Presidency, common, especially do sand in riverbeds. 

 (Cosmopolitan). 



Var. affinis, Clarke. Inllorescence a compact head of sessile 

 spikelets larger and whiter than type. Nut smaller, style l)ifid. 



Throughout the Presidency, with the type. 



8. S. litoraliS, Schrad. Tall, 3 ft. Spikelet.-^ brown ^ x J- 

 in.' Glumes more elegant than the last, very concave, so that in 

 drying they- develop transverse plaits in the upper part. Nut 

 piano convex. 



Scattered throughout the Presidency, but apparently not couunou. 

 (Scattered throughout the Old World). 



9. S. groSSUS, Linn. A'ery tall up to iO ft Leaves very 

 broad, up to 1^ in. thick and spongy, transversel}^ septate between 

 the veins when dry. Spikelets innumerable, l inch. Nut trigo- 

 nous. Bristles simply scabrous, (Clarke; " retrorsely scabrid," 

 Cooke). 



Scattered throughout the Presidency. Apparently rare. (Indo-Malayan) 



10. S. kysoor, Roxb. As 9, but bristles plumose with multi- 

 cellular hairs. Tubers of stolos edible. 



Scattered throughout the Presidency, mainly N. Konkan and Gujarat. 



Note. — Cooke has restored Roxburgh's species. I am unable to separate 

 satisfactorily the available material, which quite possibly does not contain 

 any sheets of the true S. r/rossus at all. <*>'. ki/soor is evidently far more 

 common. 



11. S. michelianUS, Linn.. Exactly resemble.s the very com- 

 mon Cyperus 'pycjinaeus, lloxb., in every particular except that the 

 glumes are spirally imbricate. The two plants presumably repre- 

 sent parallel lines of development in the two genera — low rosette 

 plants of dried mud. 



Distribution in the Presidency uncertain. It is presumably often passed 

 over. (Old World). 



12. S. SquarroSUS, Linn. 3-6 inches high, stems and leaves 

 filiform. Spikelets ^ in. Glumes with hunched shoulders and a 

 squarresely spreading aristate tip. Nut extremely minute. 



App. very rare. There are only one or two available specimens, two 

 without locality and one from Kanara. (African, Indo-Malayan and E. 

 Asian). 



I exclude S. Kyllingoides Boech given by Cooke on the authority of the 

 words "Kanara. Young" in F.B.I. No available specimens either in 

 Cooke's time or now. But there is no reason why the plant should not 

 be found. 



