533 



lengths : general involucre of one rigid ciliated leaf, partial ones 

 shorter than the umhel : spikelets greenish, all puberulous : glumes 

 ■with blood-red streaks with transmitted light. 



"Watery places in the Deccan. 



GENUS X. ISOLEPIS. 

 Trlandrla nKonoerynla. Sex: Spsti 



Berw. From Isos equal, and Lepis a scale. 



Gen. _ Chak. Spikes many, seldom few-flowered : scales every- 

 where imbricated, all flower-bearing or very few of the outer ones 

 empty : bristles and small calycine scales none : stamens 3 : style 

 3- seldom 2-cleft, equal at the base, deciduous: aohenium triangular, 

 mucronate with the persistent base of the style or muticous. — 

 CuLns leafy or leafless : spikes solitary, twin, in threes or more, 

 capitate-conglomerate : glomerules solitary or more, arranged in a 

 simple^or compound umbel. 



(1) I. cuBVDXA. (Kunth.) 



Ident. Kunth Enum. pi. II. 189. 



Syn. Eleogiton curvulus, iV. ah E. in Wight Contrib. p. 110. 



Spec. Chae. Culm branched, leafy, flaccid, creeping or floating : 

 leaves fascicled, linear, acutish, 3-nerved, incurved, almost equaUing 

 the striated incurved culm : spikes solitary, terminal : scales 

 roundish, truncated, lower ones shorter than the spike : stamens 2 : 

 caryopsis obovate, lenticular, smooth. 



Peninsula. 



(2) I. supiuA. (Brown.) 



Ident. E. Br. prod. 221.— N. ab E. in "Wight 1. c. p. 107. 



Syn. Scirpus supinus, lAnn. Vahl. JRoxl. — S. lateralis, Ret%- 

 Schoenus junoeus, WillA. phyt. I. 2. — Scirpus erectus. Pair. 



Engrav. Host. gram. III. t. 64. — "WUld. 1. c. t. 1, flg. 4. . 



Spec. Chae. Culms caBspitose, procumbent or erect, striated, 

 somewhat 1 -leaved at the base, glabrous: leaf short, channelled: 

 spikes 2 — 10, congloQierate, sessile, ovate-oblong, acute : involucre 

 1 -leaved, continuing the culm, very long, channelled at the base: 

 scales keeled and boat-shaped, broadly ovate, obtuse, mucronate: 

 achenium turbinate roundish, internally flat, outwardly convex- 

 angular, mucronate. 



Lower Bengal. SUhet. 



