About Bobartia indica L.
Bobartia indica L. is described as Bobartia with capitate spikes and a foliaceous involucre, as mentioned in Fl. zeyl. 41 and * Amoen. acad. 1. p. 388. It was also referred to as Scirpus maderaspatanus with a sub - round scaly capitulum in Scheuch. gram. 369.