535 



obovate-cuneate, acuminate and awned at the apex, recurved, 

 somewhat S-nerred: stamen one: style 3-partite : achenium elliptic, 

 flat and acute-angled, somewhat pointed, very finely dotted, brown 

 opaque. 



Dry sandy pastures in the Peninsula. 



(7) I. DiPSACEA. (Roem. and SeJiuU.J 

 Ident. Eoem. and Schult, Syst. II. 119. 



Syn. Scirpus dipsaceus, Rottl. Gram. 56. VaM. Echinolytrum 

 dipsaceum Desv. Jomrn. iv. 20. Wight Contrib. p. 96. 



JEkgrao. Desv. 1. c. t. 1 et. 117.— Eottb. 1. c. t. 12, fig. 1. 



Spec. Chae. Culms osespitose, bristly, 3-comered, 1 -leaved : 

 leaves short, bristly-capiUaceous, glabrous : umbel simple, 2 — 10- 

 rayed, rays unequal, divaricate, 1 -spiked, one very short, almost 

 none : involucre 3^5-leaved, almost equalling the umbel : spikes 

 elliptic, obtuse : scales somewhat keeled and convex, oblong lanceo- 

 late, aciuninately awned and recurved at the apex : stamens 2 : 

 style 2-cleft : achenium oblong, slightly compressed parallel to the 

 scale, everywhere, especially at the sides, beset with flattish stalked 

 soft glands, somewhat dotted. 



Peninsula. 



(8) I. BAHBATA. f Brown, J 



Ident. E. Br. prod. 222.— Wight Contrib. p. 109. 



Syn. Scirpus barbatus, Rotth. Gram,, hi. — S. antarcticus, Vahl. 

 Roxb. — S. capUlaris, Zinn. — S. monander, Roscb. — Fimbristylis 

 monandra, Schult. 



Engram. Burm. Zeyl. t. 47, fig. 2.— Eottb. 1. c. t. 17, fig. 4. 



Spec. Chae. Culm caespitose, bristly-filiform, furrowed, leafy 

 at the base : leaves shorter than the culm, capillaceous, scabrous : 

 sheaths pilosely bearded at the mouth : capitulum 3, many-spiked, 

 solitary, roundish: involucre 3 — 4-leaved: more or less exceeding 

 the capitulum : spikes oblong, acute : scales boat-shaped, ovate, 

 mucronate : stamen one : style 3-cleft : achenium roundish-obovate, 

 flat and convex-angular, very finely tubercled and dotted. 



Peninsula. 



(9) I. CAPiLtAKis. (Roem. and Schult. J 

 Ident. Eoem. and Schult. Syst. II. 118. 



Syn. Scirpus densus, ^0x5.^1. densa, Wight Contrib. p. 109. — 

 S. capiUaris, Z«««. 



