362 CYPERACE. [ ScrRPUSs 
Dehra Dun (Vicary) Goona (King) Saugor (Vicary) fide Clarke. I have 
seen no specimens from the area. DuisTRip. Scattered in India and 
tropical Africa. 
8. §. Michelianus, Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753), 52; F. B. I. vi, 662; 
Prain, Beng. Pl. 1158 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ti, 895. 
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Annual, roots fibrous. Stems 1-5 in. high, tufted, triquetrous, leafy 
below, sheaths membranous, striate, the older split to the base, 
blade as long as or longer than the stem, narrow, grass-like. . Spike- 
lets 4-4 in. long, numerous, in dense terminal heads 4-3 in. diant. 
bracts several, long, leaf-like with dilated bases. Glumes ~5 in. 
long, elliptic, keel rather broad, 3-nerved, produced as a mucro, 
margins hyaline. Bristles 0. Style 2-fid. Nut between 3; and 3, in. 
long, fusiform, pale dull brown. 
Delhi (Royle) Agra (Jameson) Gwalior (Maries) Kheri (Inayat). 
Distris. Throughout India, Europe, Asia, Algeria. 
9. S. litoralis, Schrad. Fl. Germ. I (1806), 142, t. 5, fig. 7; F. 
B. I. vi, 659 ; Beng. Pl. 1161 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. wi, 894. 
Rhizome horizontal, slender. Stems 2-3 ft. high, }-4 in. diam. slightly 
triquetrous towards the top, sheaths soft, membranous, open, leaves 
short or 0 or grass-like and very slender for the size of the plant. 
Spikelets 3-4 in. long, in’ lax subcorymbose or paniculate umbels 
situated laterally near the apex of the stem (or lowest bract 1-6 
inches long appearing as a continuation of the stem) sometimes 
reduced almost to a head, rays when present 1-2 in. long. Glumes 
+ in. long, elliptic-oblong, membranous, notched at the top, mucro- 
nate in the notch by the excurrent slender green keel. Bristles 2-7, 
soft, linear, plumose upwards. Style 2-fid. Nut >, in. long, broadly 
obovoid, biconvex, dull brown, apiculate, smooth. 
Saharanpur (Royle), Gwalior (“Jaries). Disrrip.: Most parts of the 
Old World. 
10. S. lacustris, Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753), 48; F. B. I. vi, 658 ; 
Collett, Fl. Siml. 564. 
Rhizome horizontal. Stems 2-6 ft. high, terete or somewhat trigonous 
at the top, sheaths membranous ending in an acute tip or blade 
4 inches long or longer and floating. Spikelets }-2 in. long, discrete 
or clustered in once or twice compound umbels sometimes reduced 
almost to a small head, situated at the apex of the stem the lowest 
