ERIOPHORUM. | CYPERACEA, — 365 
Glumes } in. long, excluding the stout scabrid mucro which ig zy in. 
long, elliptic-oblong, rounded at the tip below the mucro, pubescent 
and ciliate, lined with dark red streaks. Outer bristles shorter than 
the nut, bristle-like, reddish-brown scabrid. Inner bristles similar to 
the outer, much longer than the nut but irregular sometimes small 
often 0. Nut #5 in. long, light brown or greyish, trigonous, globose, 
pyramidally pointed at each end, finely longitudinally ribbed. 
Hardwar (Wallich) Goona (King) fide Clarke, Merwara (Duthie). 
Duthie’s No. 4919 from Merwara is the type of var. eroluta C. B. 
Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind vi, 666. Clarke has noted .on the sheet ‘ setx 
hypogyne extraordinarily though irregularly develeped.’ He 
describes them ‘‘ petals narrowly elliptic 3-nerved shortly stalked 
with long linear papillose-scabrous arista, overtopping the nut’’. 
He figures them in Illustrations of Cyperacex, t. LVIII, fig. 9. I 
have failed to find anything like this but find the bristles as des- 
cribed above. Distris.: Punjab to the Deccan. 
2. F. glomerata, Lamk. Ill. I (1791), 150; F. B. I. vi, 666; 
Prain, Beng. Pl. 1157 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii, 898. 
Annual, tufted. Stems 4-16 in. high, triquetrous, pilose. Leaves 2-5 
in. long, hairy, 5-nerved, sheaths long, more or less patently hairy. 
Spikelets 3-4 in. long, 3-10 in clusters, axillary and terminal, bracts 
small. Glumes }; in. long excluding the hispid awn which is some- 
times nearly as long as the blade, obovate-oblong, tip rounded 
ciliolate, margins membranous, pubescent, keel 3-nerved running 
into the awn. Outer bristles small and inconspicuous (or linear as 
long as the nut C. B. Clarke). Inner scales quadrate, apiculate base 
cordate with a short slender claw, back with 3 raised veins, the 
scales adpressed to the nut and concealing it. Nut ys, in. long, 
stipitate, apiculate, trigonous, globosely obovoid, pale brown, 
smooth. 
Bundelkhand (Duthie 7051). Dristrre.: Central Provinces, Bihar, 
S. E. Asia, Australia, tropical Africa. 
12. ERIOPHORUM, Linn.; FI. Brit. Ind. vi, 663. 
Glabrous grass-like herbs, leafy only near the base. Spikelets 
in compound umbels or corymbs sometimes reduced to few or 
one spikelet. Glumes spirally imbricate. Hypogynous bristles 6 
divided nearly to the base into ligulate segments accrescent and 
comose in fruit so that the inflorescence becomes cottony. Stamens 
