Eleoeharis.] olxiii. CTPEEACBai. (0. B. Clarke.) 627 



nearly an inch acute, bristles 6 as long as the cancellate nut retrorsely 

 scabrous, style usually 3-fid. E. acutangula and media, BcJmltes I. c. 91. 

 E. planiculmis, Steud. 8yn. Gyp. 80; Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 62. 

 Soirpus fistulosus, Poir. Encycl. vi. 749. S. acutangulus and medius, 

 Bioxh. Fl. Ind. i. 213. LimnooMoa media and acutangula, Nees in Wight 

 Contrib. 114. Heleocharis flstulosa, Boeck. in lAnncea, xxxvi. 472. — 

 Eleooharis, Wall. Cat. 8453. 



From Nepai and Assam to Burma and Ceclon. — Disteib. Tropics 



Stems 1-3 ft. by ^ in. SpiMet scarcely broader than the stem, dnsky green. 

 Glwmes \ in., suberect, obovate, rather laxly imbricate, dirty straw-colrd. Nut as 

 long as i glume, unequally biconvex, obovoid, top narrowed; style-base ovoid- 

 conic ; outermost cells transverse-oblong, superposed in 24-40 vertical series, nut 

 hence longitndinally striate. 



6. E. spiralis, Br. Prod. 224 (in note) ; stems robust not transversely 

 septate triquetrous under spikelet, spikelet f-1 in. obtuse, glumes obtuse 

 subtruncate, bristles much shorter than cancellate nut irregular smooth. 

 Thw. Enum. 352 (excl. syn. media). Soirpus spiralis, Botth. Descr. et le. 

 45, 1. 16, fig. 1; Roxb. Fl. Ind.i. 212; Wall Oat. 34-54, B (partly). S. 

 mutatus, Soxb. mss. Limnochloa spiralis, Nees in Wight Oontrib. 114. 



S. India; not common; E. Bengal; Griffith; Kurz. Bombay ; Salsette, 

 Jacquemont. Dkcoait Peninsula ; Wallich. Bubma ; Griffith,, &c. Cbtlon ; 

 TAwaites, &c. — Distbib. Mauritius ? 



Stems 2 ft. by ^-^ in. Spikelet ^-\ in. diam. ; very dense, marked by a spiral 

 line apparently i.e. the summits of the very erect close regular glumes. QVmnea 

 obovate, summit much depressed triangular nearly truncate. Style 2-3-fld. 

 JBristles slender from ^-^ the length of the glume, half-obsolete. Hut half as long 

 as glume ; style-base often nearly confluent with nut ; outermost cells shortly trans- 

 versely oblong, superimposed in 36-40 vertical series, so that the nut exhibits 36-40 

 slender striations. 



Sect. II. Eleogentjs, JVee*- in Wight Contrib. 112 (Genus) ; stems 

 slender or medium ; spikelets many or few-fld., usually wider than the 

 stems ; glumes membranous, usually 1-3-nerved, keel green ; style 2-fid. — 

 Heleocharis (Genus), Lestib. Bssai Cyp. 41. 



7. E. atropurpurea^ Kunth Enwm. ii. 151 ; roots fibrous, stems 

 slender, spikelet small ovoid or subcylindric, bristles retrorsely scabrous 

 white or 0, nut black smooth, style 2-fid base small depressed-conic white. 

 J. Gay in Flora xxv. 641 ; 0. B. Clarice in Journ. Bot. xxv. 269. Soirpus 

 atropurpureus, Hetz. Obs. v. 14 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 219 ; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 viii. 37, t. 295. Eleogenus atropurpureus, Nees in Wight Contrib. 113. 

 Heleocharis atropurpurea, BoecJc. in Linncea, xxxvi. 454 (excl. var. y). 

 — Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3489. 



West Himalaya, alt. 3000 ft., to Assam and Ceylon.— Disteib. Tropics 

 generally, except Malaya. 



Stems 2-6 in. Spikelet l-J in., many-fld. Glumes broad, obtuse, black-chest- 

 nut, keel green. Bristles in the Indian tropical examples usually 7-5, as long as the 

 nut, in the Himalayan (as in the European) examples or very small. Nut 

 minute, obovoid, compressed, as long as ^-| glume. 



8. E. capitata, Br. Prod. 225 ; roots fibrous, stems somewhat slender, 

 spikelet small dense obtuse, bristles as long as nut retrorsely scabrous 

 brown or ferruginous, nut black smooth, style 2-fid base small depressed 



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