286 158. CYPERACEX. 
Formosa (A. Henry, 712, 733, 7731), Takow (A. Henry, 
1066 !); Kwanerune: Pakhoi (Playfair, 206!) ; HoneaKone 
(Harland, 679! Hance, 1260 partim! 7481!) Mus. Brit. ; 
Herb. Kew. 
Common in all warm countries, especially near the sea. 
The numbers of Hance are not the field-numbers of the col- 
lectors, but the list number of his own herbarium (as are the 
numbers cited mostly by European and by “ British” botanists) ; 
they are therefore sometimes made up of several distinct collec- 
tions, and misleading. 
12. Fimbristylis Fordii, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. 
Annua, debilis, fere glabra. Culmi esespitosi, 4-8 uncias longi, 
2-4-spieuligeri. Folia pauca, subsetacea, culmum superantia. 
Umbella simplex; radii usque ad 1j une. longi; bractem usque 
ad 1 unc. longe. Spicule j-3 unc. longs, lineari-lanceolatze. 
Glume acuminate, mucronate. Stylus 2-fidus. Nux obovoidea, 
straminea, in utraque facie longitudinaliter 9-striata, et (pre- 
sertim in lateribus apiceque) valide tubereulata. 
Kwanetune : Lofaushan (Ford, 132!). Herb. Kew. 
Next F. gracilenta, Hance; but the nut is different, resembling 
somewhat that of F. polytrichoides. 
13. Fimbristylis fusca, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. (1883). 
p. 1048 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. p. 649. 
Fimbristylis cinnamometorum, Hance, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot, xiii. 
(1873) p. 182, non Kunth ; cf. Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. p. 318, in nota, 
Fimbristylis Kamphoveneri, Boeck. in Engl. Jahrb, v. (1884) p. 505. 
Gussonea pauciflora, Brongn. in Duperrey, Voy. ‘ Coquille, pars 2 
(1829) p. 171, t. 34 B. 
Schoenus puberulus, C. A. Meyer, in Mém. Sav. Etr. Pétersb, i, (1831) 
196, t. 1; Kunth, Enum. Pl. ii. p. 337. 
Abildgaardia fusca, Nees, in Wight, Contrib. p. 95; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 
p. 990 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. (1871) p. 54. 
Abildgaardia pauciflora, Kunth, Enum, PI. ii. p. 249. 
Rhynchospora ? anomala, Steud. im Zoll. Verz, Pf. Ind. Archip. ii. 
p. 6l, et Cyp. p. 149. i 
Isolepis longispica, Steud. Cyp. p. 104. 
Kwanerune: Canton, West River (Hance, 13111 in herb. 
Paris! foliis perbrevibus); HowakoNa (C. Wright, 574! Hance, 
356!). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
A Malay species extending to Bengal and Canton. 
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