634 CLXXII. CYPERACEJ&. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Fimbristylis. 
Sect. II. DıcmeLostYLIS, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 309 (not Dichostyis 
[Genus] Nees). Lowest fertile glumes of the spikelet spirally gei i 
stems with many or several (depauperated examples not rarely z "i 
spikelet; style 2-fid; nut biconvex; style usually flattened from Op 
back, often villous below its bifurcation.— This section contains à ror 
species as are neither Eleocharoides nor Abildgaardia, and have on Je 
branches to the style. In this section the style is never 3-fid om lis 
stolonifera, var. B). Compare, among the species placed in Trichetostyns 
F. globulosa, and F. cymosa in which 2-fid styles sometimes occur. 
Series A. Spikelets all (or nearly all) solitary— ezcept in Ke 
often paired, in F. diphylla (and in other species) occasional dé d ! 
iu F. spathacea the umbel is dense, sometimes congested into a head. 
* Stem with few (often 3-1) spikelets. 
10. F. schoenoides, Vahl Hnum. ii. 286; glabrous, mon eri 
middle-sized ovoid spikelets, style 2-fid, nut obovoid stalta trib. 97; 
smooth white rarely discoloured brownish, Nees in Wight Y. bis ‘sata, 
Thw. Enum. 348; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 5 (excl. var. B). F. bispi 
Nees L c. 97 (mainly); Boeck. l. c. 6 (partly). F. inconstans Flora,’ 
Syn. Cyp. 107. F. polymorpha var. depauperata, Boeck. i Zenit. 
lviii. 111. Scirpus schoenoides, Retz Obs. v. 14. S. monostac Tos mA 
me.; Rozb. Fl. Ind.i.219. S.bispicatus, Boch, l.c. 220. Isolepis Uo 
stachya, Spreng. Neue Entdeck. ii. 11. I. bispicata, Roem. & Bleogiton 
Mant. ii. 61. I. rariflora, Schrad. in Roem. & Sch. l.c. 65. Presl Rel. 
monostachya, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 97. Abildgaardia nervosa, + e8, 
Haenk. i. 180.—Isolepis ?, Wall. Cat. 3490 (except F). 
Throughout Inp1a, alt. 0-6300 ft.—Disrrrs. S.E. Asia, N. were rather 
Rhizome 0, or rarely horizontal, very short. Stems 4-12 in., (occasionally 
slender, striate, base often thickened. eaves as long as i-i sek scabrous. 
longer than stem), narrow, edges incurved (when dry) most minu «d iy muere 
Spikelets 4$ in., dense-fld., pale or brown. Glwmes ovate, obtuse, P bac ; lowest 
nate, adpressed, incurved, many-striate, rusty-brown rarely green si^ 4-1 OH all 
empty, like the rest, or rarely bract-like with green nerve excurren 
caducous seriatim, leaving the rhachilla minutely hairy by the ragg 
areoles. Stamens 3, rarely 2; anthers not crested. Style long, Mà t cells very 
nearly to base; branches short. Wut as long as i-i glume ; outermos 
small, subquadrate obscure.—The large Khasi form, with rusty -brown SP 
long, is by Boeckeler added (perhaps rightly) to F. sub-bispicata. 
, Qur- 
. M. F. sub-bispicata, Nees d Meyen, in Nov. Act. Acad. We style 
xix., Suppl. i. 75; glabrous, stem with 1-3-6 large cylindric SP! e brown. 
2-fid, nut obovoid stalked biconvex smooth white or becoming . CYP: 
Benth. Fl. Hongk. 391. F. japonica, Sieb. et Zucc. ms. ; Steud. DY” 
107. F. bispicata, Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 6 (partly). 
Orissa; Pooree, W. S. Atkinson, —DrisTRIB. China, Japan. 4 glome— 
Stems 8-20 in. Spikelets up to 1 by 4 in. Mut scarcely as long . thi sea, and 
The type of Nees and Meyen is an abundant East Asiatic plant near let; buf the 
appears distinct from F., schenoides by its larger size and larger spikelets 
Species is scarcely otherwise separable, though admitted by Bentham. e 
of spec 
** Stem with many or several spikelets [but, even in the case ° ome. 
that have normally a compound Einhel. M examples with few ( 
times with 1) spikelets occur.] 
