140 J. R. Drummond — On a new Scirpus from Beluchistany ^c. [No. 4, 



I have not traced 8, campesfroides of Roxburgh's unpublished 

 drawing, but it seems likely that the Nepal habitat is an error, and 

 that S, pectinatus was collected on the coast or in tidal rivers exclu- 

 sively. 



Wight's plant was doubtless that which is represented from Cey- 

 lon in Herb. H.B.O., named 8. pectinatus Roxb. and S. suhulatus, Vahl 

 by Mr. 0. B. Clarke subsequently. 



Royle's specimens may have been from the Dehra Dun or Kumaon, 

 and to whatever plant they belonged were presumably distinct (as a 

 sub-species at least) from the estuarial Scirpus pectinatus. 



In the Flora Germanica (VIII p. 42 Ic. COOIX) Reichenbach has 

 described and figured Schrader's Istriau species, giving as additional 

 localities the Venetian Islands, and the synonymy as 



= 8. mucronatus, Scopoli 



=3/Sf. fimhrisetuSf Delile 



= FimhristyUs mucronatum (sic), Vahl 



= Malacochgete littoralis N. von E. 



=s:8,halearicus, Willd. ined. 



From the last synonym it appears that a similar or identical 

 species had been collected in the Balearic Islands also. Reichenbach 's 

 figure represents a plant agreeing fairly as regards the sheaths and 

 inflorescence with 8. pectinatus of Roxburgh, but differing from that 

 widely as regards the shape of the glumes. 



From Delile's plate of 8. fimhrisetus the Fl. Germ. Icon differs as 

 regards the length of the stigma and in shewing the glumes as ciliate 

 on the margins. It adds a detail which may have escaped previous 

 observers as regards the anthers, which are shown as adnate to a strap- 

 shaped filament, broadened upwards, and produced above the cells into 

 a short semicircular crest or expansion, which is bristly or minutely 

 plumose on the margin. 



The achene is depicted as plano-convex, shortly stalked, and obcor- 

 date, with a manifest style base. The culm for the most part of its 

 length is triquetrous, or to speak quite correctly plano-convex, the sec- 

 tion of the convexity giving a curve which is nearly a parabola. 



Nyraan's Conspectus gives the range of Schrader's 8. litoralis as the 

 whole N. shore of the Mediterranean and its European islands from 

 Crete westwards, and it may be taken that the plant of Delile is a 

 sub-species of 8. litoralis or a very closely allied form. 



