Bulbostylis.] CYPERACE. 1155 
2474, FIMBRISTYLIS mILIAceA Vahl;-F. B, I. vi, 644, Scirpus 
ripe F, I. i. 228, 
all the provinces, 
A Area, annual herb; stems 8-24 in, Beng. Bara 
2475. ialeneds COMPLANATA Link; F. B. I. vi. 646. 
- Bengal; Sundribun 
A glabrous herb; ede 8-24 in., flattened under the 
umbel. 
2476, ae ee ee Boeck.; F. B. I. vi. 646, 
Ch ur; N. Bengal, Daas. 
A glabro my ; stems 8-24 
2477, tia JUNCIFORMIS at e B, I. vi. 647, 
Tirhut ; N. Bengal; Chota Nagpur. 
A glabrous herb; stems 4-16 in. Santal. Bindi muthi, 
1040. Echinolytrum Desv. 
Annual herbs, densely tufted, small, with capillary root-fibres ; 
leaves shorter than the stem, capillary; sheath glabrous. Spzke- 
lets globose or ovoid, in simple or compound umbels, with filiform, 
spreading rays, green; bracts capillary. Glwmes minute, densely 
imbricating, squarrosely spreading, oblong, membranous, with a 
stout midrib ending in a long, stout, scaberulous awn as long as 
itself, recurved and persistent. Stamens 1 or 2; anthers linear. 
subacute. Ovary linear-oblong ; style ia glabrous, cuaally 
deciduous, sometimes persistent ; stigmas 2, capillary. Fruit a 
linear- oblong, biconvex, straight or slightly incurved nut, the faces 
quite smooth, the sides with few or many, stoutly stipitate, capi- 
tate glands, rarely naked ; bare of style slightly swollen; style 
Sometimes persistent on the nu 
478. Ecutnotyrrum pipsackum Desy. Scirpus minimus F, I, 
i. 219. Fimbristylis pests FE vk 
In most of the provinces. 
A tufted, annual herb, 1-6 in. hee 
4044, Bulbostylis Kunth. 
Annual herbs, with very slender stems, leafy at the base only ; 
leaves very narrow, filiform or capillary. Spikelets small, crowded 
in a terminal head, or umbellate; bracts short. Glumes few or 
Many, imbricate all round the rakite: 1-2 lowest and often the 
