Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 77 



G, E, CAPITATA, E. Br. Proclr. 235. Tufted plant 2 to 16 iiieliL'S 

 tall, stems numerous slender. Spikelets j<-l inch long, suljglobose 

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

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

 Fl. Brit. Ind. A'l. G2r. Decne. Xouv. Ann. Mus. III. 361. Miq. Fl. 

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

 (partly), lioxb. Fl. Ind. I. 215, Eleogenus capitatus, Nees. Wight. 

 Contrib. 112. Heleocharis capitala, Boeck.' Linnaea. XXXVl. 461. 



Singapore: Cliangi (IJidley 133), Tampenis (5800), Tebau 

 (5198). Distrib. Europe, X. Africa, Trop. Asia, Polynesia and 

 America. In damp spots by jungle parts very local. 



7. E. ciiAETAiUA, E. & Scliultes. Syst. II. 1541 & 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 

 bar. Bristles little longer tban the nut. Xut large planoconvex 

 obovoid, with a very broad triangular 3 lobed top and the 3 angles 

 forming ribs. Clarke Fl. Brit. Ind. \I. 629. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V, 71, 

 E. setucea, E. Br. Prod. 224. Cypcrus setaceus, Eetz. Obs. V. 10. 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 1. 185. CJtaetocyperus Limnocharis, Xces. in \Yight. 

 Contrib. 96. Ch. sctaceus, Xees, Linnaea, IX. 289. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. III. 298. Heleocharis cliaetaria, Bocck. Linnaea. XXXA'I. 428. 



Singapore Gardens (Eidley 1), Seletar; Malacca (Griffith 6319), 

 Tanjong Kling (Eidley); Selangor: Kuala Lumpur (Eidley). Dis- 

 trib. All the Tropics. 



Damp spots by ditches etc., probably common all over the penin- 

 sula. Often bulbilliferous and spreading itself l)y plants developed in 

 the axils of the spikelet. 



7. BuLBOSTYLis, Kunth. 



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

 leaves very narrow and sbeatbs usually finely liairy. Corymb umbel- 

 late or congested. Spikelets small many flowered. Glumes imbricate 

 on all sides, 1 or 2 lowest ones empty. Hypogynous l>ristles al)sent. 

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

 base very small bulb 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. UAKDATA, Kunth. Enuni. II. 208. Glabrous. Stems 3-12 

 inches tall \ery slender. Leaves half as long very narrow. Spikelets 



