896 CXLVI. CYPERAOE.i:. 



punctate and with (microscopically) narrow hyaline margins; style 

 scarcely -i-, in. long, reddish-browu ; stigmas 2, as long as or longer than 

 the style, recurved, i'l. B. I. v. 6, p. 062 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Kat. V. 13 (19ul) p. 432; Praia, Beng. PI. p. 1158. Ci/pems diff'imis, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. V. 1 (1832) p. 189. C. pyr^mmis var. /3, Boeck. in 

 Linnaea, v. 35 (1868) p. 494. — Flowers : Oct. 



KoNKAN : Woodrotit. Gujarat: Pali, Woodrow. Sixd : Bliubak, Woodrow. — 

 DiSTEiB. Throughout India ; Europe, Asia, Algeria. 



11. Scirpus squarrosus, Linn. Mant. (1771) p. 181. A slender 

 glabrous tufted annual ; root-Hbres capillary ; stems 3-6 in. long, fili- 

 form, terete, striate. Leaves shorter than the stem, filiform, acuminate, 

 erect, smooth, with involute margins; sheaths short, open. Spikelets 

 solitary or 2-4 in a cluster, sessile, \-\ in. long, globose or oblong, obtuse, 

 green, many-flowered ; rhachilla naked ; bracts 1-3, capillary, finely 

 acuminate, leaf-like, dilated at the base, one or two sometimes 1 iu. long. 

 Glumes -'^ in. long, closely imbricate, squarrosely spreading and recurved, 

 trapeziform with acutely angled sides, narrow ed above into a recurved 

 cusp as long as or longer than the blade witli a stout central nerve, 

 very caducous in fruit ; hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 1 or 2 ; 

 anthers minute, oblong, apiculate, yellow. Nut Jjj in. long, obovoid- 

 ellipsoid, trigonous, yellow, brown or ultimately black ; style very short 

 or 0; stigmas 3, minute, recurved. Fl. B. 1. v. 6, p. G63 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 233; Boeck. in Linnaea, v. 36 (1870) p. 734; Trim. FL Ceyl. v. 5, 

 p. 74 ; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 432 ; Prain, Beng. 

 PI. p. 1158. Isolepis squarrosa, Eoem. & Schult. Syst. v. 2 (1817) 

 p. Ill ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 286.— Flowers : Oct.-Dec. 



Widely distributed throughout the Presidency. — Distuib. More or less throughout 

 India; Oeylon, Tropical Africa, Java, China. 



8. ERIOPHORUM, Linn. 



Glabrous herbs ; stem leafy only near the base. Leaves many, long, 

 linear. Spikelets with many perfect flowers in compound umbels. 

 Glumes imbricate on all sides ; hypogynous bristles 6, divided nearly to 

 the base into ligulate comose segments. Stamens 3-1 on the anterior 

 side of the ovary. Ovary ovoid ; style slender, glabrous, short or long; 

 stigmas 3 (casually 2 or 4), long. Fruit a sessile trigonous smooth 

 dusky nut with narrowed apex. — Distrib. Species 10, chiefly in Arctic 

 or N. temperate regions. 



1. Eriophorum coxaosum, Wall. Cat. (ls2S) 344(5. A glabrous 

 herb; rhizome scarcely any; slems 0-20 in. long, terete below, tri- 

 gonous at the top, leafy at tlie very base. Leaves ecpialling or exceeding 

 the stem, rigid, linear, narrow, with serrulate margins; sheaths brown, 

 shining, striate. Umbel supra-decompound, 2-8 in. in diam., with many 

 rays, the spikiilets usually solitary on the top of the rays with 1 or 2 

 .sessile ones in the forks ; bracls very long, sometimes reaching 12 in., 

 leaf-like. Spikelets numerous, reaching \ in. long, elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse, terete, reddish-brow ii. Glumes i by ,j'„ in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 membranous, 1 -nerved, mucronate, reddish-brown. Anthers lar<i;e, 

 yellow with a long lanceolate pointed bright-red crest. Nuts nearly 



