1156 BENGAL PLANTS. (Bulbostylis. 
uppermost empty ; hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 1-3; anthers 
linear, obtuse or ane Ovary obovoid ; style slender, glabrous ; 
sti 3s 3. Fruit obovoid, obtuse, trigonous, smooth nut, 
crowned by the ictal style-bas 
ciara clustered in a globose head; nut obscurely reticulate or porose- 
netate :— 
eins glabrous; spikelets 3-20 
Stem hairy ; spikelets about 10 in a subspinescent head...subspinescens. 
Spikelets solitary, in a simple or compound umbel; nut Lamesa tate 
undulate capillaris yar. trifida 
2479, BULBOSTYLIS BARBATA Kunth; F. B. I. vi. 651. Scirpus 
monander F. I. i. a 
In — of the provinces. 
A small, tufted annual, with bristle-like — high in. 
2480, BULBOSTYLIS SUBSPINESCENS Clarke; F. B. I. vi 
Orissa, coast 
A small, tufted, pubescent annual; stems rigid, curved, 
4in 
2481. Butnosrvzis CAPILLARIS Kunth var, tTrRirmpa Clarke; 
. . Vi. 652. 
Behar; W. Bengal. 
A small, tufted annual, with slender stems, 4-10 in. 
1042. Lipocarpha R. Br. 
Glabrous, erect herbs; stems slender, leafy towards the base 
only; leaves very narrow, ually passing into an open sheath. 
Spikelets short, terete, sessile, in small, terminal heads of 3-7, 
with long, slender bracts ; flowers aoe iinet phrodite. Glwmes 
very many, minute, densely imbricate, cunea -spa attilaber glabrous, 
1-veined, not keeled, at length delduons rachilla stout, terete, 
naked; hypogynous bristles 0; seca ob membranous, 
ales ong, 
strongly veined, white, hyaline, a completely enveloping 
the nut. Stamen solitary; anther small. Ovary ovoid; style 
short; stigmas 3. ruit a narrowly oblong, trigonous nut, 
apiculate or with a terminal, conical top. 
Spikelets pale or tawny, concolorous; nut much shorter than the 
squamelle ; style half as long as nut or longer ... -argented. 
Spikelets ile or, if pale, purple-spotted ; nut Sas as s long are ro 
squamelle ; style less than half the length of the nut..,........- sphacela 
