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SP. SCXRPUS SQARROSUS, Linn. 



^ F. B. I. vi.663; B. P. 1160; F. B. P. ii. 896. 



Pwarf annual tufted sedge, up to 6 inches. Stem 

 filifcrm, cylindricp.!, striated. Leaves wiry, 

 shorter than stem ; sheath open. Spikelets solir 

 tary or up to 4 in a cluster, green, spiny with the 

 recurved bristles from the glumes. Nut obovoid, 

 trigonous, dark b?:own. 



gx. FuiRENA Wai^lighiana, Kunth. 



^ F.B. I. vi. 665; F. B. P. ii. 897. 



Perennial leafy glabrous sedge, up to 18 inches. 

 Khizome creeping. Stem triquetrous, leafy. 

 Leaves linear lanceolate, flat, acute. Sheaths 

 trigonous. Spikelets in terminal corymbs. 

 Spikelets cylindrical. Glumes with hair-like 

 point. Bristles shorter than nut. Nut finely 

 striated longitudinally, yellow-brown. 



52. FuiRENA GLOMERATA, Linn, 



F. B. L vi. 666 ; B. P. 1 158 ; F. B. P. ii. 898. 



Annual, leafy, more or less hairy sedge, up to i foot. 

 Stem cylindrical, striated Leaves lanceolate 

 acurrinate, hairy. Spikelets clustered, terminal, 

 ovoid. Glumes with hair like points. Bristles 

 and scales present. Scales like battledoors. Nut 

 trigonous, ovoid, smooth, pale. 



53. LiPOCARPHA SPHAGELATA, Kunth, 



F. B. L vi. 667; B. P. 1 157. 



An annual tufted sedge, up to 15 inches. Stem 

 trigonous. Leaves variable. Spikelets 1-8 

 in a terminal head. Bracts 1-2, unequal. Spike- 

 lets ovoid, purple. Hypogynous scales two, 

 enclosing the nut. Nut plano-convex, dark 

 brown, finely reticulate. Common on Jubbulpore 

 Farm. 



54. RyNCHOSPORA LONGISETIS. Br. 



F. B. L vi. 669. 



Annual medium-sized sedge, up to 18 inches. Stem 

 slender, cylindrical. Leaves up to half stem. 

 Spikelets in a terminal head. Bracts 5 ,bases with 

 tuberculated hairs. Spikelets long. Bristles 6—3 

 scabrid, 3 plumose. Nut with long beak. Found 

 pn the Jubbulpore Farm. 



