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(1) E. CH^TAEiA. (Roem. and, SchM%.) 



Ident. Roem. and Solralt. syst. II. 154. — Kuntli 1. c. p. 140. 



Syn. Cyperus setaceus, ^«fe. ohs. v. 10. — Vahl. II. 305. — Roxh. 

 flor. Ind. I. 190. — Scirpus chaetarius, Spreng. — Chaetocyperus Lim- 

 nooharis, Wight Contrib. p. 96. — C. setaceus, JVees. ah. JEsenh. in 

 Linnaea ix. 289. — S. pygmaeus, Lam. III. I. 139. 



Spec. Chae. Culms osespitose, bristly, fuirowed and angular : 

 spike solitary, ovate, obtuse, sUghtly compressed, ebracteate, 2 — 4- 

 flowered : scales 4 — 6, broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, muti- 

 cous, keeled and boat-shaped : style 3-cleft : achenium obovate, 

 triangular cancellate, opaque, beaked with the shortened triangular 

 obtuse base of "the style, which is decurrent at the angles : bristles 

 six, retrorsely spinous, whitish. 



Coromandel. 



(2) E. CAPiTATA. f Brown. J 



Ident. E. Br. prod. 225. 



Syn. Scirpus capitatus, Willd. — Vahl. — Roxb. — S. Cariboeus, 

 Rotth. — Eleogenus capitatus, Wight Contrib. p. 112. 



Engram. Eottb. gram. 46, t. 15, fig. 3. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot fibrous : culms csespitose, filiform, furrowed : 

 spike soUtaxy, erect, ovate-sub-globose, obtuse, ebracteate : scales 

 elliptic, rounded at the apex, convex, 1 -nerved, nerve green, 

 evanescent at the top : style deeply 2-cleft : achenium obovate, 

 swollen lenticular, smooth, dark chestnut, shining, terminated by 

 a small abbreviated pale tubercle : bristles 7 — 1, retrorsely spinous, 

 rusty; a little exceeding the fruit. 



Peninsula. Lower Bengal. 



(3) E. AraoPTjupiniEA. (Eunth.) 



Ident. Kunth 1. o. p. 151. 



Byn. Scirpus atropurpureus, Ret%. ohg. v. 14. — Vahl. En. II. 

 249.— Eleogenus atropurpureus, Wight Contrib. p. 113. — Isolepis 

 atropurpureus, Roem. and Sohdt. syst. II. 106. 



Spec. Chab. Eoot fibrous : culms csespitose, filiform, striated : 

 spike, erect, ovate, obtuse, ebracteate : scales ovate-elliptic, rounded 

 at the apex, muticous, 1 -nerved, keeled and concave, sanguineous 

 at the back : style deeply 2-cleft : achenium obovate, swollen and 

 lenticular, smooth, dark-chestnut, shining, terminated by a small 

 abbreviated pale tubercle : bristles 4, retrorsely spinous, whitish, 

 almost equalling the fruit. 



Moist pastures of the Peninsula. 



