892 CXLVI. CYPBRACE.i:. 



Beng. PI. p. 1159. Isolepis articidata, Nees, in Wight, Contnb. (1834) 

 p. 108 ; Dalz. <fe Gibs. p. 286.— Flowers : Oct.-Feb. 



Konkan: Woodrow. Gujarat: Dakor, Kanitkarl Sind ; Pmwilll — Distrib. 

 Throughout India ; Oeylon, Africa, Philippines, Australia. 



2. Scirpus supinusy Li7m. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 49. A glabrous 

 annual; roots fibrous; stems densely tufted, 6-15 in. long, slender, 

 obtusely trigonous, striate, flowering above the middle. Leaves very 

 short or ; sheaths short or long, the mouth oblique, rarely produced 

 into a very short erect acute limb. Spikelets 3-8 in a cluster, coming 

 off from 2 to 6 in. below the top of the stem, ^-| in. long, ellipsoid or 

 oblong, green, sessile or nearly so, obscurely angular by reason of the 

 sharp keels of the glumes ; rhachilla slender, not winged. Glumes ^ 

 in. long, ovate, acute, membranous, closely imbricate, strongly keeled, 

 the keel produced into a short mucro ; hypogynous bristles 0. Nut 

 -X in. long, globosely obovoid, rugose with transverse wavy lines, 

 trigonous, umbonate, black ; style -^j^ in. long ; stigmas 3, nearly as 

 long as the style. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 655 ; Boeck. in Linnaea, v. 36 (1870) 

 p. 699 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 74 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 432 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1159.— Flowers : Oct.-Feb. 



KoNKAN : Law ! ; Kalyan , Woodrow ; Bansda, Woodrow. Gujarat : Dakor, 

 Kaniikar ! Sind : Pinwill ! —Distrib. More or less throughout India ; Ceylon, Old 

 World generally and in America. 



Vab. uninodis, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 6 (1893) p. 656. 

 Inflorescence of 1-4 heads in a contracted umbel, the rays rai*ely 

 reaching 1 in. long. Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1159. Isolepis uninodis (sp.), 

 Delile, Fl. Egypte, p. 8, t. 6, fig. 1. Scirpus mucronatas, lioxb. Fl. Ind. 

 V. 1 (1832) p. 216 {not of Linn.). 



Sind : Pinwill ! 



3. Scirpus quinquefarius, Ham. in Wall. Cat, (1828) 3465. 

 lioot fibrous ; stems 3-25 in. long, slender, terete or slightly com- 

 pressed, often when dry transversely septate ; sheaths with an obliquely 

 truncate mouth. Leaves almost 0. Spikelets 1-9 in a single lateral 

 dense head, usually nearer to the top than the base of the stem, f-| by 

 i in., ovoid-oblong, obtuse, slightly compressed, pale-brown, shining. 

 Glumes inflated in fruit, | in. long, usually 5-ranked, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 membranous, raultistriate, acutely mucronate, the apex slightly recurved, 

 keeled, tapering (not cordate) at the base; hypogynous bristles 0. 

 Stamens 3, reaching 1 in. long ; anthers linear, obtuse. Nut J^ in. 



Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13(1901) p. 432; Prain, Beng. PL p. 1159.— 

 Flowers: Nov.-Dec. 



Konkan: DaUcll\\ Bombay, without authority in Herb. Kew. ! Gujarat: Urarat, 

 Woodrow. Sind: Pinwill \; Bhubak, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (North- West, 

 Central India, W. Bengal, W. Peninsula); Afghanistan, Beluchistan, Africa. 



4. Scirpus corymbosus, Ifr>/ne, ex Both, Nov. PL Sp. (1821) p. 28, 

 Glabrous ; rhizome 2-4 in. long, horizontal ; stems ap[)r()ximate, reaching 

 3 ft. Ion"', stout, terete, finely striate; sheatiis few, near the base, with 



