1158 BENGAL PLANTS. [Fuirena. 
2485. FurreNa GLomeraTa Lamk; F. B. I. vi. 666. F’. ciliaris 
FF. 1.1. 180. 
In most of the provinces. 
A hairy, less often glabrate, annual hedive stems 4-16 in., 
the inflorescence, at least, always pubescent. 
2486. FurrENA UMBELLATA ae ; F. B. I. vi. 666. 
In most of the provi 
A hairy, perennial one ee 8-16 in, 
1045. Scirpus Linn. 
Glabrous herbs, often tall, — or leafy at the base only, 
very rarely all along the stem; stem terete, trigonous, or tri- 
quetrous. Spikelets “enable or otal dd: terete, many-flowered, 
oblong or ovoid, usually in lateral or terminal clusters, r rarely 
olitary. Glumes spirally imbricate round a stout or slender 
rachilla, the two lowest and a few uppermost empty; hypogynous 
bristles 0 or a1, began! seabrid or rarely plumose. Stamens 
; anthers ar. Ovary obovoid; style slender, base not 
dilated; stigmas a, slender. Fruit an obovoid or trigonous 
nut; style leaving no excrescence on the nut. 
neg tall, 2-7 feet high, ee with leaf- rR nodes in oe upper 
; bristles various, 3, sometimes 5, or often 0 ...........:0006 nensis. 
ss if leafy (S. kylli nial mal S. Michelin) low (not pase 
10 in. 2a "g ees if tall only leafy near the base : 
erbs, with very slender stems; bristles 0 :— 
‘oe 3- a perennial ; stem leafy, 4-10 in. ; style or style- -branches 
kyl Hengiontt: 
Nae 2- rarely (S. green oon 3-fid ; annuals: 
Stem leafy, 1-8 in.; style as long as n " Michelianus. 
Sila "with few shoe tastes near ins ee aie hardly one- 
fourth the nut 
Stem nde, att few spikelets; glumes narrow-obovate, long- 
caudat: squarrosus. 
Stem siti with one spikelet ; glumes obovate, pene? 
Isolepis. 
Large or middle-sized herbs ; stems leafy only near the base, eae 
fepetionlly, 12 rush-like ; bristles often present under the nut :— 
*Style 3-fid, or if 2-fid (S. ee sometimes) the af transversely 
wavy ; glumes entire :—[p. 1159 
Nut smooth; very large plants, with stems 3-9 feet high, and 
