BULBOSTYLIS. | CYPERACEZ. 357 
Tufted, rhizome short, creeping, stems 8 in.—2 ft. high, flattened in the 
upper half and scabrid on the edges beneath the umbel, striate, 
Jeaves shorter than the stems ;4-} in. wide, tip abruptly narrowed, 
scabrid-ciliate, sheaths smooth coriaceous with membranous margins. 
Spikelets 3 in, long, narrowly ellipsoid, acute, in compound or de- 
compound umbels, rays flattened, bracts the biggest leaf-like appear- 
ing as a continuation of the stem as seen from behind, amplexicaul 
as seen from in front, shorter than the umbel, scabrid-ciliate, the 
others linear-subulate with broad bases. Glumes subdistichous + in. 
long or slightly less, ovate, acutely keeled the keel more or less ex- 
current, margins brown. Rachilla after the fall of the glumes pitted, 
rough with short ascending acute scales. Style slender glabrous 
with a short conical base. Nut 3; in. long, whitish, obovoid, ob- 
tusely trigonous, one face broader than the other two, faintly striate, 
obscurely tuberculate. 
Dehra Dun (Parker) Haldwani (Parker). In Himalayan specimens the 
nut is 3; in. long, smooth, with sometimes one face larger than the 
other two. In C. P. and Orissa specimens the nut is 4, in. long 
and minutely tubercled. Distr1B. Warm regions of the old world. 
15. F. junciformis, Kunth. Enum. wi (1837), 239; F. B. I. vi, 
647 ; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1155 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii, 886 ; Collett, 
Fil, Siml, 562. 
Rhizome woody, horizontal, covered with the fibrous remains of the 
leaf sheaths, stems 6-16 in. high, angular, striate, leaves crowded 
at the base of the stem and usually much less than half its length, 
ys - Tp in. wide, abruptly pointed, scabrid on the margins, sheaths 
coriaceous with broad membranous margins. Spikelets 4-4 in. long, 
some solitary others in clusters of 2-5, arranged in compound umbels, 
bracts several, leaf-like, much shorter than the rays. Glumes } in. 
long, ovate, boat-shaped, the lower glumes mucronate, sides brown, 
margins narrow scarious. achilla after the fall of the glumes rough, 
pitted. Style slender, pubescent below the 3 stigmas, base smal] 
conical. Nut 7, in. long, trigonous obovoid, pale straw-colored 
nearly smooth or verrucose. 
Delhi (Jameson), Saharanpur (Royle), Moradabad (Thomson), Pilibhit 
(Inayat), Bahraich (Harsukh). Flowers June, July. Disrris. 
Throughout India, Madagascar, Philippines. 
9. BULBOSTYLIS, Kunth.; Fl. Brit. Ind, vi, 651, 
Tufted annuals with fibrous roots. Stems slender leafy only at 
the base, sheaths usually finely hairy. Spikelets congested or 
