THE CYrEliACl'LE OE THE BOMBAY rilElilDENCY. -HYA 



9. Eriophorum, Linn. 



Glabrous. Sten)8 leafy at the base, intiovescence various. 

 Spikelets many-flowered. Glumes imbricate all round the rhn- 

 chilla. Ilypogynous bristles G, divided to the base into innumer- 

 able fine segments, which increase and lengthen, — heads thus 

 ultimately comose.. Style slender, normally trilid. Nut sessile. 

 trigonous, smooth, dark, with nan-ow apex. (Species 10, mainly 

 Arctic or N. Temperate). 



1. E. COmOSUm, Wall. Robust. Umbel compound or supra- 

 decompound, 2-8 in. long and wide. Bracts v. long up to 12 in. 

 Spikelets -^- in., reddish brown. Glumes strongly keeled; mucro- 

 nate. Anthers with a red crest. Nuts nearly \ in. long very 

 narrowly linear-fusiform. Scales so much divided as to appear 

 more like a pappus, the segments ultimately far exserted. 



In the Presidency apparently almost confined to Junnar. Also recorded 

 once from Champaner ( perhaps Fort Pavagadh) in Oujarat, and from 

 Sind. (North India and Burma to China). 



10, Fuirena, Rotth. 



Glabrous or pubescent. Leafy. Spikelets many-flowered in 

 dense clusters, wdiich are sessile or pedunculate, terminal or axil- 

 lary. Glumes imbricate all round the rhachilla, always strongly 

 aristate and hairy in the upper half. Hypogynous processes 6. 

 in two series ; 3 outer (sepals) bristle-like, small or ; 3 inner 

 (petals) enclosing the nut, broad, often clawed, three-keeled, rarely 

 0, Stigmas 3. Nut trigono^is, narrow or sub-stipitate below, 

 apiculate or beaked above. 



Key to the Bombay species :— 



A. Petals 0, leaves glabrous . . . . . . \. E. irallicJiiana. 



B. Petals present, 



1 . Petals quadrate, clawed, 



(«) Glumes r. hairy, nerves concealed 



by the hairs . . . . . , '2. E. (flomerata. 



(/;) Glumes slightly hairy, nerves white, 



raised, conspicuous . . . . 3. JP. uncinata. 



2. Petals obovate sessile or nearly so . . . . A, F. umbellata. 



1. F. Wailichiana, Kunth. 1-2 ft. Leaves stiff, erect, narrow, 

 with a strong midrib, glabrous. Nut dark when mature, keeled 

 on the angles, cancellately striate. 



Deccan, from Khandesh to E. Belgaum. Should be found sooner or 

 later in the drier parts of Gujarat. (India, the drier northern and central 

 parts). 



2. F. glomerata, Lam. 4-18 in. Leaves not stiff", 3-5-nerved, 

 hairy. Petals quadrate on a long or short claw, tricuspidate at the 

 apex and semi-hastate at the base, brown. Nut usually pale, pro- 

 minently triquetrous. 



Throughout the Presidency, especially in ricefields, locally common 

 (African and Indo-Malayan.) 



