288 



11. SCIRPUS, Linn. 



1. SUBULATUS, Vahl. Enum. ii, 268. Culm round, 3-cornered 

 at the apex, sheathed ; leafless, glabrous ; umbel irregularly com- 

 pound ; involucre one-leaved, 3-cornered, subulate, as long as the 

 umbel; spikes solitary, ovate-oblong, obtuse. Syn. S pectinatus, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 220 ; Malacochsete pectinata, N. ab E. in Wight 

 Bot. 110. 



2. GROSSUS, Linn. Suppl. 104. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 230. Culm 

 triquetrous, leafy at the base, glabrous ; umbel supra-decompound 

 cymiformed ; involucre about 3-leaved, very long ; spikes solitary, 

 ovate-elliptic obtuse ; scales convex, slightly mucronate. Syn. 

 Hymenocheete grassa, N. ab E. in Wight Bot. Ind. 110. Com- 

 mon on the margins of water-holes ; 2 to 3 feet high. 



3. MARITIMUS, Linn. Fl. Luce. 39. Creeping ; culms trique- 

 trous ; leaves flat, rough on the margin, longer than the culm ; umbel 

 simple, with few rays ; rays very unequal, 1 to many-spiked, some- 

 times capitate contracted ; involucre 3 to 4-leaved, very long ,- spikes 

 ovate- oblong or cylindric ; scales 2-lobed at the apex, mucronate. 

 Scirpus corymbosus, Forsk. Descr. 14; S tridentatus, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i, 229 ; S affinis, Roth. nov. sp. 31. 



4. KYSOOR, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 235. Culms 5 to 6 feet high, 

 triangular, hispid ; umbel supra-decompound ; spikes ovate ; seed 

 oblong, triangular ; bristles 5, villous. Allied to S grossus, Roxb. 



12. RHYNCOSPORA, Vahl. 



1. ARTICULATA, Schult. Mant. ii, 49. Spikelets subcapitate ; 

 heads fascicled corymbose; corymbs axillary, decompound, terminal, 

 supra-decompound, many-flowered, erect ; bracts setaceous ; leaves 

 broad-linear. Schoenus articulatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 189; 

 Cephaloschoenus articulatus, N. ab E. in Edin. Phil. Jour. 1834. 



13. SCLERIA, Linn. 



1. LTTIIOSPHERMA, Willd. sp. iv, 316. Glaucous; culms 

 slender, triquetrous, glabrous ; leaves narrow-linear, elongated, 

 scabrous on the margin ; sheaths triquetrous; ligula short, rounded ; 

 peduncles axillary and terminal, simple or branched, few-spiked ; 

 spikes in twos or threes ; male and female intermixed ; achenium 

 stony, ovate elliptic. Syn. Scirpus lithospermus, Linn. sp. ed. i, 51. 



14. CAREX, Linn. 



1. INDICA, Linn. Mant. 574. Spikes subdecompound, sub- 

 pinnated, axillary, lower peduncled ; rachis angular, very rough ; 



