138. CYPERACEJE. [7. Eleocharis. 



4. E. capitata, Br. 



Perhaps not specifically distinct from E. atrojmrjmrea but .stouter 

 and attains 14" ; small specimens are only separated by Clarke from 

 the bristles being brown or ferruginous instead of white. The glumes 

 also appear to be less folded but merely concave and broadly elliptic 

 or ell. -oblong. The spikelets are said to attain -5". Nut deep brown 

 or black as in atropurpiira. 



Near rivulets. Kurz ! Hot springs of Sarncliknnd, Plains of Bihar, Kew Herb. ! 

 Hazaribagh, ^«rfe>-8. ! Manbhum, i^aW ! Singbhum, C/arte ! Fl., Fr. Sept.-Dec, 



6. E. atropurpurea, Kunth. Syn. Scirpus capitatus. 



A small weak csespitose sedge 2-7" high. Stems slender terminating 

 in a single small ovoid or sub-cylindric spikelet •1--25" long. Glumes 

 •05--06" long at base of spikelet, broadly-oblong obtuse or rounded 

 at tip, membranous, folded, 3-nerved. Bristles about 6 as long as 

 nut, glistening white. Nut brown (black, Clarke), polished micro- 

 scopically striate obovoid, biconvex, -03" long, crowned with the 

 disciform style-base. Style 2-fid. 



In dried up pools, etc. Purneah, Ham. ! Monghyr, Griff. ! Western Bengal and 

 Bihar (Manbhum), Kurzl Hazaribagh, Anders., Clarke I Singbhum ! Fl., Fr, 

 April-Dec. Annual. 



6. E. chaetaria, Roem. d- Sch. 



A very small tufted sedge 1-2" high, occasionally up to 6", some- 

 times with a short filiform rhizome. Stems slender, angled, terminated 

 by a short ovoid or ellipsoid few-fid. spikelet -Oo-'IS" long. Glumes,, 

 lower sub-distichous -1" long, boat-shaped with broad coloured and 

 scarious sides, upper spiral smaller. Nut -05" long, distinctly 3- 

 quetrous, rounded between the prominent angles and distinctly 

 punctulate in vertical lines (cancellate, outer cells in each face in 

 U-IO series, sometimes perforated, Clarke). 



In half -wet swamps and rice-fields. Sikkim Tarai (near Purneah), i'iw.9, Kurz. I 

 Rtinchi, Clarke I Singbhum 1 Probably in many other districts. FL, Fr. Sept.- 

 Dec. Probably annual. 



Uppermost stem-sheath often with 1 or sometimes 2 scarious elliptic blades 

 •04-'05" long. Spikelets with few glumes, only 1-4 developing nuts. Stigmas 3. 

 Angles of nut often slightly produced at its shoulder, style-base short conical. 

 The nut apart from the style base and thick receptacular base is cylindrico- 

 globose. 



7. E. congesta, Do7i. 



A csespitose sedge 8-12" high with slender nearly terete 8-10-fluted 

 or -striate stems and a terminal many-glumed ovoid or conical spikelet 

 •2—3" long frequently Avith subsidiary branches from the axil of the 

 bract which may bear a smaller spikelet. Glumes -08" ell. -oblong 

 concave, not keeled, hyaline in centre and with often coloured margins 

 or a coloured band between the centre and margins, midrib very fine» 

 Stigmas 3 longer than the short style. Nut straw-coloured •05'' 

 without or -06" with the narrow-conical style-base, obovoid or pj^ri- 

 form obscurely 3 -angled. Bristles rather stout a little longer than 

 nut, retrorsely scabrous. 



In the hills of Chota Nagpur, over 2000 ft. Ranchi, Clarke ! Sirguja, Clarke i 

 Tributary States of Chota Nagpur (without precise loc), Brain's Collector \ Fl. 

 Fr. Oct.-Dec. 



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