1136 BENGAL PLANTS, [Pycreus. 
1033. Pycreus Beauv. 
Perennial, rarely annual, glabrous herbs, with rootstock creeping 
or 0; leaves towards base of stem, sometimes reduced to sheaths. 
Spikelets in globose or umbelled heads or spikes; involucrate 
bracts 1 or more, foliaceous, with bracteoles under the secondary 
divisions of the inflorescence ; rachilla of cian persistent, not 
disarticulating towards the base, sometimes with membranous 
wings derived from persisting sa aang Glumes distichous, 
the two lowest empty, those above 2-sexual, all nearly equal, 
deciduous from below upwards, the uppermost 1-3 sterile or 
linear or oblong. Ovary laterally compressed ; style machat short ; 
stigmas 2. Fruit a strongly laterally compressed nut. 
Outer superficial cells of the nut predag aly oblong :— 
Spikelets -1 in. wide, pale straw-colour stramineus. 
Spikelets -2 in. wide, dark straw-coloured .........-+0...08e0+* latespicatus. 
Outer superficial cells of the nut ve hai hexagonal :— 
Stem decumbent and leafy in its lower part sanguinolentus. 
Stem erect, leafy only at the very lace — 
rho 2 or 1; stems short, slender, usually tufted; roots 
fibrou 
Nut abavate stamen usually one only .........ccseeeeereneeeeees nitens. 
Nut vase or hehe stamens 2 :— 
Nut apiculate :— 
Paae oe set ..capillaris. 
fourae loosely imbricate capillaris var. stricta. 
Nut truncate :— 
Nut wk the faces concave :— 
Glumes close-set Pere 
acaue loosely imbricate eacekt ineus 
with faces concave or very flat...............s0008888 suleinua. 
Stamens “A ditt rather stout ; rhizome generally elongated 
angulatus. 
2386. PycREUS sTRAMINEUS Clarke; F. B. I. vi. 589. 
E. Bengal, Mymensingh ; Orissa. 
A slender herb. 
2387. PycrEeus LaTespicatus Clarke; F. B. I. vi. 590. 
Chota Nagpur; W. Bengal 
A slender herb. 
