652 cLxxii. cYPEEACEiE. (C. B, Clarke.) {Bulbostylis. 



Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. 583. I. capillaris, Bon Prodr. 39 {not Boem. & Sch.). 

 I. Cuminsii and I. involucellata, Stevd. 8yn. Cyp. 101. I. sabtristachya, 

 Mochst. ;"see Boeck. I. c. 752. Kmbristylis monandra, Boem. & Sch. Syst. 

 Mant. ii. 59. F. barbata, Benih. Fl. Austral, vii. Z2\.—Burm. Thes. 

 Zeyl. t. 47, fig. 2.— Isolepis, Wall. Gat. 3481, 3497. 



Throughout India, alt. 0-4000 ft., from Kashmie and Assam to Cbtion and 

 SiNGAPoEE.— DiSTEiE. Warm regions. 



Stems tufted, 2-10 in., bristle-like, striated. Leaves as long as 4 stem ; sheaths 

 usually with needle-like hairs at least in their throat. OapHyulum -j— | in. diara. ; 

 bracts shorter, or much longer, than head. Spikelets J-J in., oblong-lanceolate. 

 Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, scarcely acute, rusty brown with green keel, margins 

 minutely ciliate, sides puberulous or glabrate. NiU as long as i glume. 



Var. pulchella (sp.) Thw. Bnum. 350 (under Isolepis); lower glumes oyate- 

 lanceolate longer more rigid than in 3. barbata type. Scirpus Thwaitesii, Soeei. 

 in Liimma, xxxviii. 380,— Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3480, B. 3481 C— South Madras. 

 Pondicherry; Perrottet ; Tnticorin ; Wight n. 2891, WalUch.' Ceylon; Thwaites 

 n. 829, 3761), &c.— The type form of this var. looks a separable species, but 

 there are intermediates which I cannot sort between the two; Wight regarded 

 all as one species. 



2. B. subspinescens, C. B. Clarice; stem hairy with, about 10 

 spikelets in an almost prickly head, style 3-fld, nut pale brown. 



Obissa; Poori, W. S. Atkinson, Clarke. 



Whole plant pubescent. Stems i in., rigid, curved. Leaves as long as i stem. 

 Spikelets nearly i in., hard, almost stellately spreading ; bracts about as long as 

 the head. Glumes scarcely keeled, densely pubescent. — Otherwise as B. barioto, of 

 which it might be treated as a var. growing in sea sand. 



3. B. capillaris, Kunth Enum. ii. 212 (see p. 205) ; stem glabrous, 

 spikelets nearly all solitary in a simple or compound umbel, style 3-fid, 

 nut pale transversely undulate. Scirpus capillaris, Linn. Mami. 321. 



Throughout Ameeioa. 



Var. trifida (sp.) Kunth Enum. ii. 213 ; nut smooth or often verrucose not 

 transversely undulate. Scirpus densus. Wall, in Eoxh Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey & Wall.) 

 i. 231. S. gracillimus, Boeck. in Linnaa xxxvi. 761 . S. trifidus, Hance in Joum. 

 Sot. xvi. 112. Isolepis trifida, Nees in Wight Contrib. 108; Straehey Cat. PI. 

 Kumaon, 73 ; Thw. Bnum. 350. I. tenuissima, Don Prodr. 40. I. densa, Moem. S( 

 Sch. Syit. Mant. ii. 71 ; Nees in Wight Contrib. 109. I. trichokolea, Steiad. Sen. Cyp. 

 96 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 308. Fimbristylis capillacea, Steud. I. c. 111. F. capil- 

 laris, Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 322 (partly) ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 390. — Isolepis, 

 Wall. Cat. 3476. 



Very common from the Himalaya, alt. 0-8500 ft., to Obtlon. — Disteib. Warm 

 regions of Old Woild. 



Stems tufted, 4-10 in., slender, striate, glabrous under umbel. Leaves as long as 

 ^— I stem, bristle-like, nearly glabrous; sheaths with needle-like hairs at least in 

 their throat. Umbel very variable ; in form densus (sp. Wall.) umbel very com- 

 pound dense with spikelets ; in trifida (sp. Kunth) umbel with 3 or not rarely 

 2-1 spikelets. Spikelets in the Indian plants solitary, i in., ellipsoid or oblong. 

 6-15-fld. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, obtuse, brown or blackish, puberulous, keel 

 green scarcely exeurrent in a mucro. Nut as long as f glume. — Some Indian 

 specimens have stems 16 in. with large compound umbels. — I cannot separate this 

 specifically from the American type capillaris ; the shape of the outermost cells of 

 the nut is identical in the two, the superficial difference in marking is often imperfectly 

 developed. 



4. B. puberula, Kunth Enum. ii. 213 (see p. 205) ; stem pubescent or 



