9. BuLBOSTYLis.] 13S. CYPERAGEM. 



2. B. subspinescens, Clarke. 



Csespitose, closely pubescent all over or stems glabrate, 1-4" high 

 often curved. Leaves about i to ^ length of stem, numerous, curved 

 acicular, striate, pubescent with very broad striate sheath. Spikelets 

 •15—25" long in a dense almost prickly terminal head about -3" diam.,. 

 pointed bracts about as long. Glumes •12-- 14" long with, brown 

 (when dry) somewhat rounded keel scarcely excurrent and scarious- 

 sides, finely pubescent. St. 1 (-3 ?). Style slender about -05", stigmas 

 nearly as long. Nut pale brown {Clarke ; I have only seen unripe ones). 

 Sands on the Puri coast, Clarke, Atkinson, WahJi, etc. ! 



3. B. capillaris, Kimth. 



A very slender tufted sedge" 3-10" high with capillary leaves i to 

 I as long as the striate stems. Sheaths with very slender hairs, at 

 least in their throats. Spikelets -1—25" long, solitary or umbelled or 

 umbels compound, rays rarely more than -7" long, bracts almost 

 glumaceous awned or with filiform tips, rarely -2" long. Glumes 

 •07" long broadly ovate cymbiform with acute keel scarcely or not 

 excurrent or lower sometimes with a minute awnlet ; keel 3 -nerved, 

 sides nerveless. Nutlet -025" long and nearly as broad, obovoid 

 triquetrous slate-coloured when ripe, very closely minutely dotted 

 (pale transversely undulate, Clarke. Probably unripe. The dots are 

 sometimes in somewhat undulating transverse lines), surface shining 

 between the dots. 

 Western Bengal and Behar, Kitrz ! Parasnath, Cal. Herb. ! Fl., Fr. Sept. 



10. SCIRPUS, L. (in part). 



Small or large sedges, all glabrous, or inflorescence slightly hairy. 

 Spikelets 1-niany in a simple or compound inflorescence, usually 

 many-flowered with all the glumes spirally imbricated, rarely lower 

 subdistichous, 1-2 lowest glumes empty, uppermost tabescent. 

 Bristles present or absent (sometimes broad in liUoralis and isolepis). 

 Stamens 1-3, anterior. Anthers linear or linear-oblong. Style with 

 a linear or conic base continuous with the nut, not enlarged over a 

 bulbous swelling (as in Eleocharis, Fimbristylis and Bulbostylis). 

 Stigmas 2 or 3. Nut plano-convex, biconvex or trigonous, sessile or 

 nearly so, sometimes apiculate. 



I. Spkts l-many, sessile iu simple clusters (1-2 ra3'S some- 

 times added in siipiyius) : — 



A. Small lierbs with small spkts. under -25". Gl. •02-"l'' 



long. Brii-tlesO:— 



1. Style very short : — 



Si)kt. 1 only ■07-'15" long. Gl. not awned. Stig. 2 . 1. isolepis. 



Spkts. 1-few, •l-"2" Gl. long-awued. Stigmas 3 . 2. squarrosus. 



2. St.yle long. Spkts. several. Gl. mucronate. Stig. 3 . 3. supinus. 



B. Spkts. over •25". Glumes over -1" long :— 



1. Bristles 0. Stem tei'ete. Heads near base : — 



Stems septate when dry. Spkts. "S-'S" . . .4. arficulafiis. 



2. Bristles 3-6. Stems 3-quetrous :— 



Heads lateral. L. very small or 0. Spkts. •25-"5" . 5. mucronafus. 

 Hds. terminal. L. long. Spkts. •3--8" . . . . G. viaritimHs,va.r. 

 11. Spikelets many stalked or umbelled. Robust sedges. 

 Bristles usually present :~ 



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