498 



(5) E. Bhownianum. /Wall. J 



Ident. Wall. pi. As. rar. II. 25, t. 248. 



Spec. Chae. Stemless : leaves long, grassy linear, narrow at 

 the top, many-nerved, not peUucid, pubescent on both sides, ex- 

 ceeding the softly villous pubescent sbeaths : peduncles sulcately 

 7 angled, sparingly puberulous, slowly glabrate, scarcely exceeding 

 the leaves : beads of flowers hemispherical or globose, white 

 villous : involucral bracts obovate, rouiid at the top, glabrous, 

 floral ones rhomb-cuneate, acute : male flowers hexandrous, females 

 trigynous. 



SUhet.- 



(6) E. CONSANGUINETTM. (Kunth.) 



Ident. Kunth Enum. pi. III. p. 566. 



Spec. Chab. Stemless : leaves grassy linear, narrow acutish, 

 very finely nerved, scarcely pellucid, peduncles and sheaths 

 glabrous : peduncles furrowed, 5-anguIar, exceeding the leaves : 

 heads of flowers depressed globose, white powdery : involucral 

 bracts obovate, round at the top, glabrous, floral ones suh-rhomb- 

 cuneate, acute : male flowers hexandrous, female trigjmous : seeds 

 lineolate. 



Peninsula. 



(7) E. MEIAiETTCDM. (Mo/rt.) 



Ident. Mart. 1. c. p. 29. 



Spec. Chab. Ehizome annual : scape striated, longer than the 

 leaves : leaves narrow linear, acute, sheaths transversely truncated : 

 heads of flowers globose : bracts oblong, darkish : perianths blackish, 

 bearded above with white hairs. 



Coromandel. 



(8) E. SEXAITGtttAIlE. (Imn.) 



Linn. Zeyl. p. 49. 



E. minimum. Lam. Encycl. III. 275. Leucocephala 



spathacea, Roxb.flw. Ind. III. 613. 



Spec. Chae. Stemless : leaves narrow-linear, subulate, 3-nerved, 

 pellucid : peduncles and sheaths glabrous, the latter half the length 

 of the leaf : peduncles 5-furrowed : heads of flowers glabrous, in- 

 volucral bracts oblong, obtuse : male flowers hexandrous, female 

 trigynous. 



Bengal. Peninsula. "Western Coast. Flowering in the rains. 



(9) E. atriNeirANGTjLAEE. (Idnn.J 

 Ident. Linn. Zeyl. p. 48. 



