280 



oblong obtuse ; male flowers hexandrous, female trigynous. Syn. 

 E minimum, Lam. Encycl. iii, 275 ; Leucocepbala spatbacea, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 613; leaves 10 to 15 lines long, one-third of a 

 line broad ; peduncles 2| to 3| inches. 



2. QUINQUANGULARE, Linn. Zeyl. 48; Willd. sp. 1, 485. 

 Stemless; leaves grassy, linear, sharp, 7 to 11 -nerved, pellucid, 

 minutely and obscurely strigose ; sheaths shorter than the leaf, and 

 the peduncles glabrous, the latter 5-furro wed. Syn. Leucocephala 

 graminifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 612; Sphacrochloa quinquangularis, 

 Beauv. and Desv. in Ann. Des. Scien. Nat. xiii, 47. 



3. WALLICHIANUM, Mart, in Wall. PL As. rar. iii, 26, t. 249.- 

 Stemless; leaves grassy linear, narrow-acute, many-nerved, sub- 

 pellucid ; peduncles and sheaths glabrous ; peduncles furrowed, 5- 

 angular, twice the length of the leaves; leaves membranous, 8 to 9 

 inches long, 2 to 3 lines broad (half a foot long, half inch broad, 

 Mart.); sheaths lax, membranaceous, 2J to 3 inches long. 



4. ODORATUM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 280. Stem- 

 less; leaves subulate recurved, 7-nerved, 1 inch long; sheaths as long 

 as the leaf; peduncles several, 5-angular, 6 inches high, twisted, 

 filiform, glabrous ; heads of flowers snow white, 3 lines in diameter ; 

 bracts (involucre) very short, obovate cuneate, scarious ; floral ones 

 rhomb-cuneate, clothed with opaque white hairs at the apex. In 

 stagnant water at Malwan; flowers in September, smells like 

 Chamomile. 



5. CUSPIDATUM, Dalz. loc. cit. Stemless, leaves linear ensiform, 

 very obtuse, cuspidate, 7 to 9-nerved, glabrous 1 J inch long, 



3 lines broad, one-third the length of the sheath ; peduncles 

 9 to 10 inches long, 7-angular, glabrous; heads of flowers white, 

 villous, bracts (involucre) ovate, shorter than the head ; floral 

 bracts obovate-cuneate, incurved and rounded at the apex. Between 

 Vingorla and Malwan. 



6. PYGM^UM, Dalz. loc. cit. Stemless; leaves flat linear 

 acuminate, 7-nerved, twice the length of the sheath, and as long as 

 the peduncles ; sheaths striated, glabrous, acuminate and split at the 

 apex ; peduncles several, 3 to 4-angled, 1 inch high ; bracts 

 (involucre) lanceolate-acuminate, minutely striated, 3 to 4 times 

 longer than the head, spreading. Near Malwan. 



7. RIVULARE, Dalz. loc. cit. p 280. Stem simple elongated, 

 submersed, densely leafy; leaves linear, flat, attenuated into a bristly- 

 pointed acumen, 7-nerved, twice the length of the sheath ; sheaths 

 striated, glabrous, lacerated at the apex; peduncles terete, 10- 

 furrowed, 7 to 18 inches long, twice the length of the leaf; leaves 



4 to 9 inches long, 1 line broad. On sunken stones in the rivulets 

 of the South Concan ; flowers in the rains. 



