538 



margin : spikes 1 — 3, one sessile, rest pedicelled, cylindric-oblong, 

 acute : iavolucre 1-leaved, very long : scales ovate-elliptic, mucro- 

 nulate : achenium long-stalked, obovate-roundish, lenticular-com- 

 pressed, scarcely umbonate. 



Peninsizla. Bengal. 



(4) F. AEGENTEA. (VoM.) 



Ideni. Vahl. 1. c. 294.— N. ab E. 1. o. p. 100. 



Si/n. Scirpus argenteus, Rotth. gram. 31. — Roxh. — S. monander, 

 Rotfb. I. c. 50. — S. nanus. Pair. 



Engrwv. Kottb. 1. c. t. 17, fig. 6, and t. 14, fig. 3. 



Spec. Chas. Glaucous : culms csespitose, filiform, leafy at the 

 base : leaves linear-filiform, channelled, scabrous at the margin : 

 spikes numerous, capitately congested, sessile, cylindric-oblong, 

 acute : involucre somewhat 3-leaved, very long : scales ovate, acute, 

 3-nerved at the back: style 2-cleft: achenium roundish-obovate, 

 swollen lenticular, pointed. 



Peninsula. 



(5) F. ALBICANS. fN. ah E.) 

 Idmt. !N"ees ab Esenb.,1. c. p. 100. 



Spec. Chab. Spikelets capitate, oblong : scales membranaceous, 

 oblong, acute, monandrous: caryopsis obovate, transversely tubercled 

 and waved : involucre 2— 3-le'aved, somewhat twice as long as the 

 capitule : radical leaves linear, obtuse, fiat, recurved, shorter than 

 the compressed culm. 



Peninsula. 



(6) F. sauABEOSA. (VaM.J 



Ident. Yahl. Enum. II. 289. 



Syn. Isolepis hirta, Humb. et Kunth Nov. gen. I. 224. — F. hirta, 

 Roem. and SehuU. II. 99. — F. comata, Wight Contrib. p. 102. — 

 Scirpus aestivalis, JVall. in Annot. ad Roxl.flor. I. 230. 



Spec. Chae. Cuhns csespitose, leafy at the base : leaves very 

 narrow, flat, beneath or on both sides together with the sheaths 

 pubescent : umbel compound, many-rayed, rays very unequal, 

 1 — 6-spiked : iavolucre about 4-leaved, almost equalling the 

 umbel : spikes oblong, squarrose, long-pedicelled, divaricate, central 

 ones sessile : scales ovate, mucronate and somewhat awned : stamen 

 one : style 2-cleft, bulbous and thickened at the base, and there 

 villous on both sides : achenium obovate-roundish, lenticular and 

 compressed, sub-umbonate. 



Lower Bengal. SUhet. 



