320 CYPERACE. 
*tip penicillate; petals stipitate, minute, pilose; anthers black. 
_Female sepals narrowly oblanceolate-spathulate, hairy ; petals similar 
‘but narrower ; style short, branches 3, long, filiform. 
‘Bundelkhand (Duthie 7048). Distris. Throughout India except the 
arid N. W. and in Ceylon. 
4, E. pseudoquinquangulare, Ruhi. Pflanzenr. IV, 30 (1903), 
73. . 
Stemless. Leaves 2-3 by 7 in. linear, acute. Scapes 4-9 in. high, 
numerous ; heads } in. diam. globose, densely white villous; bracts 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, reflexed, yellowish-grey ; recep- 
tacle pilose. Floral bracts obovate-oblong, acuminate, black, hairy 
on the back. Male sepals connate high up in a spathe, acute, ciliate, 
greenish black; petals ciliate; anthers black. Female sepals 
obovate acute, boat-shaped, crested; petals linear-oblong, ciliate ; 
style short, branches 3. 
Saharanpur (Botanic Gardens, Lehmann) fide Ruhland, I have not 
seen this species the description being taken from Ruhland. 
5. E. Hamiltonianum, Mart. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. III (1832) 
29; Ruhland, I. c. 107 ; Fyson Journ, Ind. Bot, II, 313, t. 33. 
Stemless. Leaves 2-34 in. long, linear-lanceolate. Scapes 4-10 in, 
high, numerous; heads 4-} in. diam. conical, glabrous, yellowish 
brown ; bracts obovate, obtuse, glabrous ; receptacle pilose. Floral 
bracts cuneate-obovate, more or less acuminate, yellowish. Male 
sepals 2, falcate-oblong, acute, glabrous; petals 0; anthers black. 
Female sepals 2, free, similar to the male; petals 3, linear. obtuse ; 
style with 3 short filiform branches. 
Dehra Dun (King) fide Fyson 1. c. II, p. 106. I have seen no speci- 
mens from our area. DistrrB. Assam. - 
CXXII.—_ CYPERACEZ. 
Grass or rush-like herbs. Stems solid, very rarely with nodes, 
usually triquetrous. Leaves 3-farious or wanting, usually near the 
base of the stem; sheaths tubular usually closed; ligule 0 or a 
short prolongation of the mouth of the sheath opposite the blade, 
Flowers minute, 1-2-sexual, solitary in the axils of scales (“‘ glumes *’) 
