636 CLXXII. OYPERACEZ. . (C. B. Clarke.) [ Fimbristylis. 
xxxvii. 12 (excl, var. B, y, F. Royeniana and American sp.); Benth. Fl. 
Austral. vii. 310 (excl. some syns.). F. pallescens, Nees Le, 101; Strachey 
Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73; Thw. Enum. 348. Scirpus dichotomus, Lina. 
Sp. Pl. 50; Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 57, t. 18, fig. 1. S. annuus, Host 
Grom. Austr. ji. 42, t. 63 (style wrongly 3-fid). S. pallescens, Roab, 
Fl. Ind. i. 929.—Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3511, 3515, 3516 B, 3517 A. 
Throughout Lena, alt. 0-4000 ft., especially in rice-fields.—Drsrgis. Warm 
regions of Old World. 
Annual, pubescent or puberulous. Stems 2-10 in., tufted. Leaves often as long 
as stem, narrow. Umbel often 2-4 in. diam., sometimes with 9-5 spikelets only; 
bracts often as long as umbel. Spikelets } by $ in., somewhat angular from the 
acute keels to glumes. Glumes boat-shaped, ferruginous, keel green 1-3-nerved, 
lowest empty more or less bract-like often pubescent. Stamens 2-1 (or 3 fide 
Boeckeler). Style long, flattened, often villous nearly to base. Nut as long ast 
glume, biconvex ; outermost cells, shortly transversely oblong, conspictous, vertically 
superimposed in 5-9 rows on each face of nut.—Closely allied to F. diphylla, in 
which the spikelets are terete, the glumes being much less keeled than m F. dic 
oma, 
15. F. diphylla, Vahl Enum. ii. 289; tufted, roots fibrous, lere 
as long as 3-2 stem, umbel compound or simple or reduced to 1 spikele 
spikelets ovoid-oblong terete, glumes glabrous, style 2-fid, nut b i 
striated on each face straw-colrd., or rarely discolrd. brown, Nees m Ze 
Contrib. 100; Thw. Enum. 348. F. laxa, Vahl Enum. n. 292. F 
tomentosa, Vahl Le 990. Nees l e. 100 & in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 
xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 81. F. glauca, Vahl Lc. 288. F. annua, Horm 
Sch. Syst. ii. 95, and Mant. ii. 55; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. Wb 
depauperata, Br. Prodr, 297. F. curvifolia, Steud. Cyp. 116. F. H 
phylla, Schultes in Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. Mant. 530. D foliosa, Link ^ 
Berol.i.288. F. cincta, Nees l. c. 98 (in note). F. Royeniana, Meer" 
F. ovalis, Nees l.c. 98; Thw. Enum. 348. F. podocarpa, Nees l €. enth 
§ in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 77 (partly); t Pl. 
Fl. Hongk. 391.. F. communis, Kunth Enum. ti, 234; Strachey Ca. i 
Kumaon, 73 (excl. syns.). F. Metzii, Steud. Syn. Cyp- 127. ^ Vahl" 
Steud. Syn. Cyp. 112. F. spadicea, Boeck. in Flora, xlii. 70 (not of peck. 
F. pentastachya, Boeck. l. c. xl. 36 & in Linnea, xxxvii. 17. F. Hey nor omt 
in Flora, xliii. 244. F. polymorpha, Boeck. in Linnea l.c. 1T (eue m 
syns.j. F. rigidula, Thw. l.c. 348 (not of Nees). Scirpus diphyllus, 171, 
Obs. v. 155 Roxb. FI. Ind. i, 927, S. annuus, Allioni Fl Peder 5 pg 
Geng fig. 3. S. miliaceus, brevifolius, arvensis and glomeratus, WEN 
4, 226, 297. Trichelostylis curvifolia, Nees l.c. 105 Di note). ‘sty lis, 
carvifolia, Schrad. in Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. Mant. 70.— Fimbristy 
Vall. Cat. 3501, 3507 (mainly) 3508, 3539 (mainly) 3518, 3521 A- 
Throughout IxD1A, alt. 0-6000 ft. ; common.—DISTRIB. All warm regio tems 
Joq abrous or hairy. Rhizome none, or very rarely 0-1 in.; stolons linear o 
m in., striate, 3-5-angled (rarely compressed) under umbel. Leave’ pels 1-8 
f i orm, obtuse or acute, glabrous or hairy, never reduced to sheaths. geg 
" lam.; bracts 3-4, sometimes short suberect, sometimes spreading m 
an umbel. Spikelets commonly 3-2 in. Glumes concave, gla ek greens 
minutely ciliate on margins), brown or reddish, rarely chestnut-colra., bac 
lowest 1-3 empty like the others, or rarely somewhat elongated bract-like. es Ta 
2. e l. Style long, flattened, villous (at least in the upper half); bran th almost 
x rt. Nut as long as $ glume, biconvex, obovoid, shortly stalked, BEE 
glistening white, or in the Malay examples slightly tubercular on SS 
