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Smaller than the type in all respects. This is applyed to the soil 

 as a manure by the farmers who are living by the lake. 



Eleocharis (Eleogenus) capitata (Linn.) R. Br. Frodr. Fl. N.-Holl. 

 p. 225; Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. II. p. 153; Kunth, Ennm. PI. II. p. 

 150, excl. syn. plur. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. ]). 299 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Cyper. 

 p. 78 ; Clarke in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 627, et in Journ. Linn. Soe. 

 XXXIV. p. 50, XXXVI. p. 227 ; Trim. Handb. Fl. Ceyl. V. p. 72 ; Britt. 

 et Br. 111. Fl. N. Un. St. et Can. I. p. 250, fig. 583. 



Heleocharis capitata Boeck. in Linntea, XXXVI. p. 461 ; F. Muell. 

 Fragm. Phyt. Austral. VIII. p. 240 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. VII. p. 296 ; 

 Henry, List. PI. Formos. p. 104. 



Eleogenus capitatus Nees ' in Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. p. 112/ et 

 in Linniea, IX. p. 294. 



Scirpus capitatus Linn, partim ; Willd. So. PI. I. p. 294, parti m ; 

 Vahl, Enum. PI. II. p. 2.50, partim; Roxb. Fl. Ind. L p. 215; Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. p. 394; 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. II, p. 7.57. 



Scirpus carihceus Rottb. Descr. et Ic. PI. p. 46, tab. 15, fig. 3. 



Scirpus Broionei Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. p. 204 



Scirpus palmaris Willd. ex Schult. Syst. Veg. Mant. II. p. 84, in 

 obs. 



Scirpus impar Ehrenb. ex Boeck. 1. c. p. 462. 



Scirpus atropurpureus Willd. ex Kunth, 1. c. 



Eleocharis atropurpurea J. et C. Presl, ' Rel. Hnsnk. I. p. 196.' 



Eleocharis setacea R. Br. 1. c. p. 225, nee p. 224. 



Roots fibrous. ' Stems Cfespitose, slender, striate, green, attaining about 

 26 cm. long ; the inner sheath about 2-3 cm. long, brunneo-purple below, 

 oblique at the orifice. Spikelets ovoid, globoso-ovoid, or ovoid-oblong, 

 obtuse, fulvous, about 5-7 mm. long. Glumes numerous, densely imbricat- 

 ed, ovato-elliptical or obovato-elliptical, rounded at the apex, subscariuus, 

 ferruginous above, 1-nerved. Seta? 7-8, retrorsely spinuloso-scabrous, un- 

 equal in length, the longer ones slightly exceeding the nut intermixed 

 with shorter ones. Style exserted, bifid, with plumose branches, longer 

 than the nut. Nut obovoid, com[)ressed, smooth, nigro-castaneous, as 

 long as i-glume, | mm. long ; style-base small, depressed, pale. 



Nom. Jap. Tama-harii (nov.). 



Hab. LoooHOo : Isl. Okinawa (K Kuroiwa ! herb. T. Makino). 



