286 



spikes 1 -flowered. Syn, Schcenus coloratus, Linn. sp. i, 64; 

 Theyocephalon nemorale, Forst. Gen. 65 ; Scirpus cephalotes, 

 Jacq. Vind. i, 42, t. 97 ; K triceps, Hort. Upsal. in Herb. 



6. ABILDGAARDIA, Vahl. 



1. MONOSTACHYA, Vahl. Enum. ii, 296. Cespitose ; culms 

 filiform, glabrous, leafy at the base ; leaves shorter than the culm, 

 linear filiform, acute, convex on the outside ; spike suberect, solitary, 

 ovate-acute, compressed ; scales keeled, mucronate. Syn. Cyperus 

 monostachyus, Linn. Mant. 180; A rottboelliana, N. ab E. in 

 Wight. Bot. 95 ; Scirpus schcenoides, Koenig in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i, 223. 



7. LIPOCARPHA, Brown. 



1. ARGENTEA, Brum. Congo. 40. Culms trigonal, leafy at the 

 base ; leaves shorter than the culm, rigid, keeled, glabrous ; spikes 

 3 to 7, capitate, aggregate, ovate-obtuse ; involucre 2 to 4-leaved, 

 very long; scales spathulate, 5-nerved, whitish ; stamen 1. Syn. 

 Hypselyptum argenteum, Vahl. Enum. ii, 283 ; Scirpus senegal- 

 ensis, Lam. Illust. i, 140 ; Hypolytrum senegalense, Rich, in Pers. 

 Syn. i, 70 ; Tunga laevigata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 188; Lipocarpha 

 kevigata, N. ab E. in Wight Bot. 92. 



8. ISOLEP1S. 



1 . SQUARROSA, Roem. and Schult. syst. ii, 1 1 1 . Culms filiform, 

 3-cornered, glabrous ; leaves shorter than the culm, thin like hair, 

 glabrous ; spikes in threes, sessile, oblong-obtuse ; involucre 2- 

 leaved, very long ; scales convex, obovate cuneate, about 5-nerved, 

 Scirpus squarrosus, Linn. Mant. 181 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 224. 



2. ARTICULATA, N. ab E. in Wight Bot. Ind. 108. Culms 

 roundish, sheathed, leafless ; spikes many, capitate, clustered, 

 ovate-oblong; involucre 1 -leaved, continuing the culm and much 

 longer, round, fistulous, articulated with transverse partitions ; scales 

 ovate acute. Scirpus articulatus, Linn. sp. i, 70 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i, 217; S fistulosus, Forsk. Descr. 14; Rheed. Mai. xii, 71. 



9. FUIRENA, Rottl. 



1. F CUSPIDATA. Root perennial, stoloniferous ; culms leafy, 

 with the sheaths sharply triangular ; mouths of the sheaths mem- 

 branous ; leaves about twice the length of the sheaths, spreading, 

 rigid, linear-subulate, keeled ; spikelets about 8, solitary or in twos 

 or threes, ovoid, oblong, on pedicels of different lengths ; general 

 involucre of one rigid ciliated leaf, I to 1 h inch long ; partial invo- 



