Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 77 



G. E. CAi'iTATA, Ii. Br. Prodr. 235. Tufted plant 2 to 10 inches 

 tall, stems numerous slender. Spikelots -^-1 inch long, subglobose 

 conic obtuse pale. Glumes oblong ovate ol)tuse. Bristles G-7 red or 

 brown. Style bitid. Nut obovoid compressed black smooth. Clarke 

 Fl. Brit. hid. VI. 62:. Decne. Xouv. Ann. Mus. III. 361. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. III. 299. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V. 72. Scirpus capituius, Linn, 

 (partly). Ivoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 215. Eleogeniis capitatiis, Nees. Wight. 

 Contrib. 112. Heleocliaris capitala, Boeck.' Linnaea. XXXYI. 161. 



Singapore: Changi (Ridley 133), Tampenis (5800), Teban 

 (5798). Distrib. Europe, X. Africa, Trop. Asia, Polynesia and 

 America. In damp spots by Jungle parts very local. 



7. E. ciiAETAiJiA, E. & Schultes. Syst. II. 1511 & Mant. II. 90. 

 A small tufted plant, (sometimes developing long slender proliferous 

 hair-like stems in water), 3 to 6 inches tall, stems very slender sheaths 

 at base red. Spikelet ^ inch long with few flowers. Glumes lanceo- 

 late acute subdisticlious usually dark red with light edge and central 



6. FlMBRISTYLIS, Vahl. 

 Has been inadvertently transposed, and will be found on page 87. 



sula. Often bulbilliferous and spreading itself by plants developed in 



the axils of the spikelet. 



7. BULBOSTYLIS, Kuntli. 



Small tufted plants, with slender stems leafy only at the base, 

 leaves very narrow and sliealhs usually finely hairy. Corymb umbel- 

 late or congested. Spikelots small many flowered. Glumes imbricate 

 on all sides, 1 or 2 lowest ones empty. liypogynous bristles absent. 

 Stamens usually 2. Style as long as the nut linear glabrous, trifid, 

 base very small Ijulb shaped, deciduous leaving a minute button on 

 the top of the nut. Xut obovoid trigonous smooth. 



Species about 70. All warm regions. 



Stem glabrous . . . . . . . . . . 1. B. harhata. 



Stem pubescent . . . . . . . . . . 2. B. puherula. 



1. B. BAKBATA, Kuutli. Enuui. II. 208. Glabrous. Stems 3-12 

 inches tall very slender. Leaves half as long ver}- luirrow. Spikelcts 



