Fimbristylis.] CLXXIL CYPERACEÆ. (C. B. Clarke.) 033 
mucronate, style 2-fidj nut smooth brown obscurely white-scaly on 
shoulders. 
SyrnzT, C. B. Clarke. TENASSERIM, Helfer. 
Stem 4-8 in, Spikelet 4 by A, in. Glumes suberect, dirty straw-colour, keel 
green, lowest like the others or if bracteiform shorter than spikelet. Stamens 1-2. 
Style below bifurcation glabrous or sparsely hairy. Nut less obtuse than that of 
F. polytrichoides 3 outermost cells larger, in about 15 longitudinal rows on each face 
of nut.—Otherwise as F. polytrichoides, from which it differs chiefly in its narrower 
acuter spikelet, 
Style 3-fid; nut trigonous. 
7. F. pauciflora, Br. Prod. 225; stem bristle-like, spikelet slender 
lanceolate pale, style 3-fid, nut obovoid white shoulders subtubercled. 
Benth, Fl. Austral. vii. 303. F. filiformis, Kunth Enum. ii. 221; Miq. Fl. 
Ind. Bat. iii. 314; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 23. F. pumila, Benth. in 
Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. [1843] 239; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 315. F. 
malaccana,' Boeck. in Flora, xl. 597. Trichelostylis filiformis, Nees in 
Wight Contrib. 102. Isolepis ?, Wall. Cat. 3488. 
From Merrett, Griffith, to SINGAPORE, Wallich.—DisTRIB. E. Asia, Malaya, 
N. Australia. 
Annual, glabrous, Stems 4-8 (rarely 12) in., tufted, leafless, or lower sheaths 
Sometimes leaf-bearing (or fide Boeckeler uppermost sheath sometimes leaf-bearing). 
Pikelet 1 by zo in. Glumes ovate, imbricate (somewhat loosely) on all sides, erect, 
concave, adpressed, white, subscarious, with rusty spots on the back, all falling ; 
eola scarcely hispid. Stamens frequently 2. Style below trifurcation nearly 
Slabrous, deciduous together with its narrowly-pyramidal style-base. Nut as long 
glume ; outermost cells small, obscure. 
h 8 F. Kingii, C. B. Clarke ms.; Boeck. Cyp. Nov. ii. 40; stem slender 
e£ spikelet ovoid-ellipsoid, glumes ovate obtuse, style 3-fid, nut obovoid 
üsky black minutely scabrid. 
Ninenrer HI xs, alt. 6-8000 ft. ` 
"come very short. Stems 4-12 in., tufted. Leaves as long as 3-3 stem, narrow, 
má Spikelet 4 in., terminal, erect, terete, dense-fld. Glumes imbricate on all 
Ze, adpressed, concave scarcely keeled, chestnut-brown, slenderly 3-5-nerved, 
Tous ; lowest empty, like the others or more seldom bract-like 3-1 in. Stamens 
bus Ye long, slender, glabrous, deciduous together with its narrowly-pyramidal 
; branches long. Nut as long as } glume, trigonous; outermost cells small, 
ae aate, lax, subpapillose, scarious.—Near the Australian F. monandra, F. 
er, 
.9. T. Subtrabeculata, C. B. Clarke; stem „Slender, spikelet ellip- 
wid, glumes ovate obtuse, style 3-fid, nut obovoid straw-colrd. smooth 
rabeculate. 
Arten Hirrs; Pykara, alt. 5600 ft., Gamble. ` . 
4 glabrous, Rhizome 0, or short, slender, descending nearly vertically. Stems 
fin m., tufted. Leaves several, longish (often 3 stem), bristle-like. Spikelet 3 in., 
Je brown ; bract O or shorter than spikelet. G@lumes numerous, imbricate on all 
“8, concave, scarcely keeled, brown, 3-nerved, paler on back. Style long, gla- 
Y us, deciduous together with its narrowly-pyramidal base, branches long, linear, 
ut as long as 2 glume, obtuse, scarcely stalked, trigonous ; outermost cells trans- 
ly oblong white not vertically superimposed in regular series; nut thus not 
Dé tudinally striate but irregularly conspicuously trabeculate.— This may be F. 
bulbosa, Boeck. Cep. Nov. ii, 39 (non Flora xli. 598) from description; but Boeck. 
this is * allied to P. juncea, Roem. & Sch. with 2-fid style (sometimes 3-fid).” 
