528 



(8) E. SPIRALIS. (Brown.) 



Ident. E. Br. prod. 224. — Krntli 1. c. p. 155. 



Syn. Scirpus spiralis, Rotth. gram. 45. — Vahl. — Roxh. — Lim- 

 noctloa spiralis Wight I. o.p. 114. 



Migrcm. Eottb. gram. t. 15, flg. I. 



Spec. Chab. Culms triquetrous : spike cyliadric : scales spiral, 

 broad, very obsoletely many-nerved, truncated at the apex : style 

 3-cleft : aohenium obovate, swollen lenticular, very finely cancellate, 

 terminated by tbe flattened conical continuous base of the style : 

 surrounded by five small bristles a half shorter. 



Stagnant waters of the Peninsula. 



GENUS. VII. SCIEPUS. 

 Tplandvla inEonog'ynia.. Sex: St/st: 



Deriv. Erom the Celtic Ci/rs, rushes. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes many- seldom few-flowered : scales imbri- 

 cated on all sides : calyx rudimentary : bristles 6, seldom fewer, 

 retrorsely hispid with spines, sometimes either smooth or antrorsely 

 hispid or plumose : stamens 3, very rarely fewer : style 3-, seldom 

 2-cleft : achenium compressed or triangular, obtuse or often mucro- 

 nated with the persistent base of the style. — Spikes solitary, thin, 

 capitately conglomerate, fascicled or more or less compound-umbelled. 



(1) S. juNcoiDES. (Roxh.) 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. 216.— Kunth 1. c. p. 160. 



Syn. S. juneiformis, Wight Contrib. p. 112. — ^Eleocharis jun- 

 coides, Sehult. Mart. II. 90. 



Spec. Chae. Culms csespitose, sheathed: spikes somewhat in 

 three's, congested, sessile, ovate : involucre 1-leaved, continuing the 

 culm, very long : scales somewhat keeled and convex, acute and 

 sub-mucronulate, greenish at the apex: style 2-clefb : achenium 

 obovate, flat and convex, mucronate, obsoletely and transversely 

 undulated and wrinkled, brown, shining : bristles 4 — 6, retrorsely 

 spinous, brownish. 



Lower Bengal. Silhet. Peninsula. 



(2) S. 'Wailichii. (N. ah. E.) 



Ident, Nees. ab. Esenb. in Wight Contrib. p. 112. Eunth 1. c. 

 Spec. Chae. Culms csespitose, slender, sheathed, leafless : spikes 



