630 CLXxii. CTPBEACEiE. (0. B. Clarke.) [Eleoeharis. 



Flora, Ixi. 1878, 34. H. Kuntzei, Boech. Gyp. Nov. i. 14.— Eleoeharis sp. 

 n. 3, Rerh. Ind. Ord. S.f. & T. TJi. 



Khasia Hiiis, alt. 0-6000 ft. ; Assam ; Griffith j Munnipoeb, Watt j Bttema, 

 Griffith, &c. — DisiElB. E. Asia, Java. 



Stems 4-16 in., 4-6-striate; uppermost sheath with an oblique triangular 

 (scarcely mucronate) mouth. Spikelet |— J in., lower glumes in numerous spires. 

 SHgtles 6 or 5-4, as long as nut, retrorsely scabrous, pale brown. Nut as long as 

 ^_| glume, trigonous, top slightly narrowed truncate closely applied to style-base 

 (not forming a minate neck under it). 



15. Xa. cong'esta, Don Prodr. 41 ; oaespitose, stems slender, upper- 

 most sheath truncate with a lateral tooth, spikelet dense sometimes pro- 

 liferous, style 3-fid, nut obovoid narrowed at top yellowish brown, style - 

 base bulbiform. E. palustris (P Br. vel. sp. nova) Straohey Gat. PL 

 Kumaon, 73. E. ovata, Thw. Emm. 351 (not Br.). Scirpus congestus, 

 Spreng. 8yst. Cur. post. 27. — Eleoeharis purpurascens, Boeck. in lAnniEa, 

 xxxvi. 455. 



Throughout India, alt. 3-6500 ft. (except Bengal). Kashmie, 0. B. Clarke; 

 Nepal, WalUch; Choia NAapOEE, 0. B. Clarke; Nilghibi Hills, Perottet; 

 CetioN ; Thwaites. 



Stems with many striations (hence nearly terete), not 4-6-striate angular (as E. 

 afflata) ; mouth of uppermost sheath usually horizontal with a small tooth J in. long 

 excurrent horizontally below the margin then curving upwards. — Otherwise as S. 

 afflata, of which this may be a Western var., often referred to JS. palustris, 

 ftom which species it widely differs in the fibrous roots, 3-fid style and trigonous 

 nut. 



16. E. tetraquetra? Nees in Wight Gontrib. 113 ; rhizome short, 

 stems 4-3-quetrous, spikelet oblong-ellipsoid dense, bristles 6 longer than 

 nut brown-red densely retrorse-scabrous subplumose, style 3-fid. Thw. 

 Enum. 361. E. erythroohlamys, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 300. Heleocharis 

 tetraquetra, Boech. in JAnncsa, xxxvi. 447. H. Wichurai, Boech. I. c. 

 448. H. alta, Boec/c. Gyp. Nov. i. 17. Seirpus Wichurai, Franch. 

 8f 8av. Fl. Japan, ii. 544 {not of Boech.). S. Hakonensis and S. Onaei, 

 Franch. 8f Sav. I. c. ii. 110, 111. S. petasatus, Maxim, in Bull Sac. Mosc. 

 liv. 64.— Eleoeharis, Wall. Oat. 3452. 



Throughout India in the hills, alt. 1500-11,000 ft.; from Kumaon to 

 SiKKiM, and the Khasia Hills to Cetlon and Buema. — Disxeib. E. Asia, 

 Australia. 



Rhizome usually descending, short ; long slender stolons covered by scales, some- 

 times present. Stems 8 in. to nearly 3 ft. ; uppermost sheath truncate, with some- 

 times a minute lateral tooth. Spikelet 4-1 in., often a fine brown. Retrorse barbs 

 of the bristles much longer more densely placed than in other species, in evolute 

 examples bristles quite plumose. JTrat I length of glume, trigonous, obovoid, 

 yellowish, narrowed at top ; style-base equalling J-f length of nut, ovoid, fuscous, 

 scabrous. 



8. FXM8B,XSTYX.XS, Tahl. 



Stems tufted, roots fibrous or woody, short ; stolons (except in J*". 

 stolonifera ^ Pierotii). Leaves only near base of stem. Inflorescence 

 terminal, umbellate, corymbose or reduced to few (or one) spikelets. 

 Spihelets solitary or clustered, many-fld. Glwmes imbricate on all sides 

 or (in Sect. Abildgaard/ia) lower distichous or subdistichous, upper- 

 most nut-bearing spiral ; 1-2 (rarely 3) lowest empty, several succeed- 



