JOURNAL 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol. LXXIII. Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE 



No. 4.— 1904. 



On a new Scirpus from Beluchistan and certain of Us alUes.-^By J. R. 

 Drummond, I.O.S., B.A., F.L.S., etc. 



C Read July 6th, 1904,] 



A small consignment of Cyperaceae and other aquatic plants lately 

 received in the Royal Herbarium at Sibpur from the Seistan Arbitra- 

 tion Mission, and made over to the writer for examination, included a 

 Scirpus which does not appear to have been described hitherto. The 

 ^ypogyiious bristles are plumose, and the stigma bifid, so that it would 

 fall, as the species are arranged in Fl. Br. Ind. V. 653 — 663, under 

 Scirpus proper near Scirpus litoralis, but study of the material in the 

 Calcutta Herbarium has suggested that a short review of S. litoralis 

 and its nearer allies may be useful. 



In the Fl. Br. Ind. (V. 659) Schrader's litoralis is given priority 

 over Vahl's " suhulatus," the two being taken as equivalent ; but it will 

 be convenient in this paper to commence with " suhulatus," which Vahl 

 J. II. 19. 



