440 CYPERACE.^. 



of the blunt top. Spikelets ovoid, J^ inch : glumes many 



closely imbricate, ovate sub-acute, many-ribbed. Bristles 



five or six unequal, retrorsely scabrous ; the two longest 



nearly as long as the nut. Style three-fid. Nut obovoid, 



trigonous, black, smooth, shining, half as long as the 



glume. 



Pulneys : in the lake at Kodaikanal. Bourne 636. 



Gen. Dist. Throughout India, Europe, Madagascar, the warmer parts 

 of Asia, and Australia. 



Scirpus sub-capitatus Thw. ; F.B.I. vi 661, X 20. Stems 

 many from a short woody rhizome, round, sheathed at 

 the base and for about two inches ; quite bare above for 

 about twelve inches, and then bearing a close tuft of many 

 spikelets from the axils of shorter, acuminate bracts. 

 Spikelets, ^ to ^ inch, many-flowered, brown. Glumes 

 except the lowest in two ranks, entire. Bristles long, 

 slender, slightly thickened at the tips. 



Pulneys : near Kodaikanal by Bear shola, Berberis shola and 

 the Kodaikanal waterfall. Bourne 1220, 1460. 



Gen. Dist. Deccan peninsula, Nilgiris, Ceylon, and eastwards to 

 Sumatra and China. Not northwards in th^ Bombay Presidency. 



LIPOCARPHA. F.B.I. 172 XIII. 



Stem leafy at the base only, and bearing high up a 

 bunch of one to ten egg-shaped spikelets with subtending 

 bracts : distinguished from the closely allied SCIRPUS 

 by each flower having two very thin elliptic scales 

 (formed by coalescence of bristles). 



Species 13 in warm climates. 



Lipocarpha argcntea Br. ; F.B.I. vi 667, XIII i. 

 Rhizome short, vertical. Leaves 4 to 6 by J^ inch. 

 Stem 4 to 18 by % inch, three-cornered. Spikelets 

 egg-shaped, six to ten in a close terminal bunch with 

 two or three long tapering bracts of differing lengths 



