358 CYPERACEZ. [ ScrRPUS. 
umbelled, occasionally reduced to one spikelet. Glumes spirally 
imbricate, 1-2 lowest empty. Hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 
1-3, usually 2. Style as long as the nut, linear, glabrous, base 
very small bulbiform leaving a minute button on the nut after 
falling, stigmas 3. Nut obovoid, obtuse, trigonous, scarcely 
stipitate, smooth. Species 70 in all warm regions. 
B. barbata, Kunth. Enum. wu (1837), 208; F. B. I. vi, 651; 
Prain, Beng. Pl. 1157; Collett, Fl. Siml. 6563, Stenophyllus 
barbata, Rottb. Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ti, 887. 
Stems 2-10 in. high, very slender, striate, sheaths striate on the back, 
hyaline in front, mouth pilose with very slender hairs, blade filiform 
as long as or shorter than the stem. Spikelets 1-3} in. long 3-20 in 
dense heads at the top of the stems, bracts filiform, the longest often 
-erect and about twice as long as the spikelets so that the head appears 
lateral. Glumes y; in. long, boat-shaped, ovate, keel green, excurzent 
as a small mucro, margins hyaline, often minutely puberulous and 
ciliolate. Rachilla after the fall of the glumes winged and scaly. 
Nut 3, in. long, obovoid, pale brown or yellow, very minutely stipi- 
tate and tipped with a button no larger than the stipe. 
Delhi (Jameson), Saharanpur (Royle), Moradabad (Thomson), Jaipur 
(Sadhu Singh), Ajmer (Lowrie), Bundelkhand (Duthie), Pilibhit. 
A plant of sandy soil. Distris. Throughout India and all warm 
regions. 
10. SCIRPUS, Linn. (in; part); Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 653. 
Herbs of very various habit, glabrous or the inflorescence slightly 
hairy. Inflorescence terminal or lateral of one to many spikelets 
in clusters or umbels. Glumes spirally imbricate or rarely the 
lowest subdistichous, 1-2 lowest and the uppermost empty. Hypo- 
gynous bristles present or not, sometimes broad ovate. Stamens 
1-3. Style 2-3-fid, glabrous, base linear or conic, continuous with 
the nut. Nut obovoid, trigonous or biconvex, smooth or nearly 
so. Species about 130; throughout the world. 
Spikelets 1-many in simple clusters or heads 
(nm supinus a cluster on a ray sometimes 
added). 
Clusters lateral on the stem. 
Bristles present. 
Stem terete, style 2-fid . , . L. S. erectus. 
Stem triquetrous, style 5-fid . . 2. 8. mucronatus. 
