Fimbristylis.] CLXXIL OYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 631 
ing with bisexual flowers deciduous, upper tabescent. Stamens 3 or 2-1, 
anterior ; anthers not (or shortly) crested. Bristles 0. Style long or 
longish, often villous, 3- or 2-fid, deciduous (leaving no button), or 
Persistent; style-base dilated, constricted below the dilatation. Nut 
obovoid (very rarely oblong), obtuse; gynophore more or less prominent, 
sometimes dilated at apex into an obscurely 3-lobed saucer.—Species 125, 
all warm regions. 
CONSPECTUS OF THE SECTIONS (exceptions omitted). 
Sect. I. ELEOCHAROIDES. Stems with one spikelets . . . . . Sp.1-9. 
Sect. II. DICRELOSTYLIS. Style 2-fid. 
Series A, Spikelets solitary 
Series B. Spikelets clustered . 
Sp. 10-26. 
Sp. 27-30. 
Sect. III. TRICHELOSTYLIS. Style 3-fid. 
Series A. Spikelets solitary . . . . . . . . . Sp.81-45. 
Series B. Spikelets clustered . . . . . . . . . Sp. 46-51. 
Sect. IV. AniLDGAARDIA. Lower glumes distichous . . . . Sp. 52-58. 
Sect. T. ErzocnamorpEs, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 301. Lowest fertile 
glumes of the spikelet spirally imbricated; stems with 1 spikelet (1-3 in 
F. polytrichoides). 
* Style 2-fid ; nut biconvez. 
t Nut oblong, style subpersistent. 
l. F. tetragona, Br. Prod. [1810] 226 ; stem nearly leafless, spike- 
let somewhat large conic dense-fld., style-branches 2 short, nut reticulate 
"raw-colrd. Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 305. F. cylindrocarpa, Kunth Enum. 
u 222; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 7; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. xxxix. part d 
F. abjiciens, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 107; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 316. F. 
et, Thw. Enum, 348. Mischospora efoliata, Boeck. in Flora, xliii. 
13.—Isolepis ?, Wall. Cat, 3490 F. 
Bod hroughout INDIA, except the North-West, alt. 0-3000 ft.; from NEPAL and 
MBAY to CEYLON and Tavoy.—Disrais. E. Asia, Australia. 
Glabrous, Stems 4-24 in., tufted, obscurely quadrangular; uppermost sheath 
aterally mucronate or produced, sometimes up to 1-1} in., lanceolate, coloured, 
y foliaceous, Spikelet 4-2 in., terete, erect. Glumes oblong, truncate, scarcely 
shor onate, keeled, horizontally spreading ; 2 or 3 lowest empty, ovate, much 
th rter than spike. Stamens 2 (rarely 3). Style long, flattened, villous nearly to 
le base, Nut as long as 4-4 glume, linear-oblong, plane-convex, curved, deciduous 
ih glume, stalked ; outermost cells quadrate-hexagonal, conspicuous, in about 9 
"gitudinal series on each face of nut. 
l tt Nut obovoid, transversely wavy wrinkled or ridged (outermost cells 
"ngitudinally oblong). 
le 2. T. acuminata, Vahl Enum. ii. 285; stem leafless with one erect 
Dëeolate Spikelet, style 2-fid, nut obovoid transversely wavy wrinkled 
Wcolrd, rarely becoming discoloured brown. Nees in Wight Contrib. 
EW Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 314; Thw. Enum. 348; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 
T: acicularis, Br. Prod. 226. Scirpus soaber, Bos. p. Iu ES 
9n scabra, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 99.—Isolepis ?, Wall. Cat. 
(arty) 3494, e 
