1904.] J. R. Drummond — On a new Scirpus from Beluchistan, ^c, 141 



In 1855 Steudel (Synopsis PL Oyper.) described the following species 

 of Scirpus belonging to the same group as 8. Utoralis Schrad, viz. — 



SOIRPUS. 



No. 



Species. 



Habitat, 



Character, 



40 



Philippi, Tineo 



Sicily 



Stigmas 3. 



41 



plumosus, R. Br. ... 



N. Holland 



Culm terete, glume-margins 

 naked. 



42 



Meyenii, Nees 



N. Holland and 

 Sandwich Islands 



Style trifid, achenes lead-coloured, 

 punctate gibbous. 



43 



Bray a, Hoppe 



Baltic 



Style trifid, glumes ciliate above. 



44 



suhulatus, Vahl 



India 



Style deeply bifid, achenes rust- 

 coloured, compressed, smooth. 



45 



UtoraliSf Schrad 



Mediterranean, etc. 



Style bifid, glumes blood-red to 

 rust-coloured, achenes plano- 

 convex, punctulate. 



46 



Desprauxii, Steud. ... 



Cuba 



Style bifid, glumes not muoro- 

 nate. 



50 



Jatora, Kunth 

 (? Tatora) 



Peru 



Calm triangular, style bifid, 

 glumes not aristate. 



51 



Pterolepis, Kunth 



Cape G. Hope 



Culm terete, style bifid, glumes 

 strongly ciliated. 



It appears that Scbrader in a memoir tbat is scarcely accessible had 

 referred his S. Utoralis to a new genus Pterolepis as P. scirpoides, inclu- 

 ding in it the Cape plant wbich is No. 51 of Steudel, but Nees demo- 

 lished Pterolepis f at tbe same time erecting Malacochsete for the recep- 

 tion of the Roxburgbian species having a bifid style and plumose setae 

 and certain extra-Indian forms, in whicb the Australian plant of Brown 

 was doubtfully included. 



Steudel gives S. pectinatus of Roxburgh as 8. subulatus of Vahl, 

 and reduces fimhrisetus of Delile to 8. Utoralis of Scbrader, but under 

 these he says nothing of the Neesian " Malacochsete. " 



8, Philippi is a doubtful plant reduced by some authorities to 

 8. Utoralis though the style is described as trifid. It is only found in 

 Sicily and may be a good species, but the writer has no means of plac- 

 ing it at present. 8. Brayii of Hoppe is referred to 8. lacustris, and is 

 therefore not a Malacochaete ; so that if for the purposes ^ of this note we 



