Fimbristylis.] CLXXII. CYPERACEEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 637 
limited here, this is one of the most widespread weeds in the world.— The following 
Varieties (among many others) have been esteemed species :— 
Var. 1. ANNUA (sp.) Roem & Sch.; umbel with few (often with 3-1) ellipsoid 
obtuse spikelets. —Common in Europe, rare in Bengal. 
Var, 2. DEPAUPERATA (sp.) Br.; stems very slender, flaccid, with few spikelets 
=C. B. Clarke (n. 44119) from Assam, has a long slender stem, with a single lateral 
spikelet, overtopped by most slender leaves ; recedes from the type F. diphylla more 
than does the Australian F. depauperata. 
Var. 3, PLURISTRIATA, var. C. B. Clarke (F. pilosa of most authors not of 
Vahl; sheaths and leaves often hairy, nut 10-16-striate on each face often 
dies or tubercular on shoulders.—A very common southern, especially Malay 
orm, 
Var. 4. sPIRosTACHYS (sp.) F. Muell. ; large, umbel large, spikelets large.— 
In Australia; but a Khasia form is equally large. 
„Var, NILAGIRICA ; rhizome very short, creeping; stems 12 in. in a close linear 
SC leaves filiform.— Perhaps referable to F. stolonifera. Nilghiri Hills, Pykara, 
ing. 
16. F, stolonifera, C. B. Clarke; stoloniferous, spikelets dark 
"d otherwise as F. diphylla.—Fimbristylis, Wall, Cat. 3503, A, B 
part) C. 
Kniet, Hirrs, alt. 2-5600 ft., common. MUNEYPOOR; Watt. NEPAL or 
ENGAL; Wallich. 
, Stolon breaking out horizontally from the base of stem, hardening into a long 
miry rhizome clothed with lanceolate striate dusky scales. Stems subsolitary, 
1-2 ft., slender. Leaves as long as j—$ stem, erect, very narrow, tip obtuse, hairy 
or glabrate. Umbel nearly simple, sometimes depauperated with few spikelets. 
Spikelets 2 by 4 in. 
Var. ludens ; style-branches 3 or 4,—Khasia ; alt. 6-7000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 
TTT Nut obovoid, smooth, reticulate (not conspicuously striate longi- 
tudinally,) 
17. F. eestivalis, Vahl Enum. ii. 288; umbel compound or decom- 
pound, Spikelets many solitary oblong subcylindrie, glumes ovate acute 
-Jmucronate, style 2-fid, nut smooth obscurely reticulate straw-colrd. 
ees in Wight Contrib. 102; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 11; Trimen Cat. 
PI, Ceylon, 101 (excl. syn.) F. Griffithiana, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 110. F. 
dichotoma, Boeck. in Flora, xlii. 70 (not of Vahl). F. tricholepis, Mig. Fl. 
d ^ Bat. iii. 319. F. Griffithii, Boeck. in Flora, xliii. 241. Scirpus 
&stivalis, Retz Obs. iv. 12; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 227.—Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 
75.—Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3516, A, 3517 B, D, E. 
8 Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-3000 ft. (except the North-west), abundant.—DiSTRIB. 
` . Asi i var. in America. 
Annual, Wiese or puberulous. Stems 2-10 in. Leaves often as 
long as i-istem. Spikelets à by 4; in. Glumes keeled, glabrous or pubescent, 
erect or Subsquarrose, Stamens 1-2. Style scarcely longer than nut, slightly com- 
, usually villous; margin of style-base often minutely hairy (not with long 
Pendent trichomes of F. squarroea). Nut as long as j glume; outermost cells 
iaedrate-hexagonal, arranged in 12-16 vertical rows on each face of nut, but far 
Prominent than in F. dichotoma. 
. 18. P. scaberrima, Nees in Wight Contrib. 102; stems middle- 
Sized compressed under umbel, leaves and bracts long, umbel compound 
