366 CYPERACEZ. [ LipocaRPHA. 
1-3, anterior. Style slender,. glabrous, deciduous, stigmas 3. ~ 
Nut sessile, trigonous, smooth, apex narrowed. Species 10 mainly 
arctic and N. temperate. 
E. comosum, Wall. ex Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834), 110; F. 
B. I. vi, 664; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1157 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii, 896 ; 
Watt, EZ. D. itt, 266; Collett, Fl. Siml. 565. 
Tufted, stems 6-18 in. long, slender, tough, sheaths very short, brown 
somewhat fibrous, leaves usually longer than the stems, very narrowly 
linear with serrulate margins. Spikelets 4-4 in. long, narrowly 
ellipsoid, reddish-brown, very numerous, in compound or decom- 
pound irregular umbels, bracts several leaf-like exceeding the in- 
florescence and often 12 in. long or more. Glumes 3, - -34; m. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, mucronate, l-nerved, hyaline. Anthers large, 
yellow, with a conspicuous pointed red tip. Nut ; in. long, trigon- 
ous-fusiform, dusky brown, supported by a ring of greyish cottony 
hairs much longer than the nut. 
Dehra Dun and Saharanpur Siwaliks common on clifis. Saugor. Has 
much the appearance of Bhabar grass but is readily distinguished 
by the leaf sheaths being woolly in Bhabar Grass. It is almost 
always found on steep rocks or hanging from vertical cliffs. D1isTRis. 
From Afghanistan along the Himalaya and Siwaliks to China. Hilly 
tracts throughout India. 
18. LIPOCARPHA, R. Br.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 667. 
Glabrous herbs leafy only at the base. Leaves grass-like. Spike- 
lets 1-8 in a single terminal head. Glumes spirally imbricate, 
numerous. Hypogynous bristles or perianth of two elliptic hyaline 
scales as long as and adherent to the nut, one anticous the other 
posticous. Stamens 1-3, anticous. Style small, slender, glabrous, 
stigmas 2 or 3. Nut small oblong or ovoid, plano-convex, smooth, 
invested by the hypogynous scales. Species 13 in warm regions, 
L. argentea, R. Br. in Append. Tuckey Congo (1818), 459; F. 
B. I. vi, 667 ; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1157 ; Collett, Fl, Siml. 564, 
Rhizome hardly any. Stems usually 10-20 inches, triquetrous smooth. 
Leaves half as long as the stem or less, linear-filiform with revolute 
margins, sheaths striate, deeply slit down. Syikelets }-} in. long, 
pale straw color or grey, bracts usualy 5 the longest 2-6 in. long, 
