Finbristylis.] CYPERACE&. 1149 
Chota Nagpur; N. Bengal; C. Bengal. 
A stout, rush-like sedge, 1-3 feet high. 
2445, ELEocHaris ae R. Br.; F. B. I. vi. 627. Scirpus 
spiralis F. I. i. 
Sundribuns. 
A stout, rush-like sedge, 2-4 feet high. 
2446. ELEOcHARIS aTROPURPUREA Kunth; F. B. I. vi. 627. 
Scirpus atropurpureus So ae 
ng: 
hig 
2447. Exxocnaris caprrata R. Br.; F. B. I. vi. 627. Scirpus 
capitatus F. 1. i , 
Behar; W. Bence: C. Bengal. 
A slender herb, 2-14 in. high. 
2448, ELxocuaris patustris R. Br.; F. B. I. vi. 628. 
Tirhut ; Behar; C. Bengal. 
A medium or stoutish herb, 4-20 in. _— 
2449, uae congEsta Don; F, B. I 630. 
Chota 
A date te 4-16 in. high. : 
2450. Exzocuaris Cumrarra Roem. & Schult.; F. B. I. vi. 629. 
Cyperus setaceus F. I. i. 185 
N. Bengal, Duars ; Cooch Behar. 
A very slender herb ; stems usually 1-4 in., occasionally 
6-10 in. high. 
1039. Fimbristylis Vahl. 
Annual or perennial herbs; leaves towards the base of the stem, 
rarely reduced to pest id narrowly linear or filiform. Spikelets 
terete, angular or r compressed, many-flowered, bracteate, in a ter- 
ininal, pena or elie inflorescence ; bracts long or short. 
Glumes imbricate spirally round the rachilla, or the lower glumes 
distichous, ae very rarely ,pubescent, deciduous, the lower 
1-3 and sometimes the upper empty, the others 2-sexual ; hypo- 
8ynous bristles 0. Stamens 1-8 ; filaments flat ; anthers linear, 
obtuse or acute or subulately tipped. biel obovoid, somewhat 
flattened or trigonous ; = long, base dilated, flattened or 
slender, glabrous, pubescent, or villous, wholly deciduous ; stigmas 
2in the flattened, 3 in the trigonous ovaries, usually filiform ag 
