638 CLXXII. CYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Fimbristylis. 
i - Boeck. 
and decompound, style 2-fid, nut obovoid smooth straw colrd. 
in Linnea, xxxviii. 409 (not xxxvii. 13.)—Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3507, 
C. 
SYLHET; Wallich. 
Glabrous. Roots fibrous, stout. Stems 12-20 in. scabrous on edges ae 
Leaves flat, robust, often overtopping stem. Bracts 3-4, two lower oa ee 
very scabrous on margins. Spikelets many, à by Ae in., 5-8-fid., wih i carodlg 
brown. Glumes ovate, acute, adpressed-incurved. Stamens 3. Style We cones 
compressed, nearly glabrous; branches long. Nut as long as $ glume, 2 Fitar 
scarcely stalked ; outermost cells very small in 20-24 vertical series on ea 
From the flattened top of stem and small spikelets this has been sometimes referred 
to F. complanata. 
19. F. podocarpa, Nees in Wight Contrib. 98 (partly); nut pam 
finely reticulated not longitudiually striated, gy nophore very yr kel 
obpyramidal, otherwise as F. diphylla. Nees & Meyen in Now c ek 
Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 77, var. 6 (and part a not B.) P, qni 
Kunth Enum. ii, 234 (partly). F. polymorpha, Boeck. in Linnea, 
14 (partly).—Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3521 B. 
From the W. Himalaya to UPPER Assam and Dacca; CHOTA Nasroan C 
Clarke; Knasia, H. f. et T. T. (Fimbristylis n. 33); &c.—DisTRIB. Malaya, 
Marianne Isles. fF. 
This is F. podocarpa, Munro ms. and Herb. Hook. f.; the type example i J 
podocarpa in Wight named by Nees’ hand is typical F. diphylla, \ hable from 
podocarpa (as here understood) the gynophore is obpyramidal, distingua ach some 
the nut, its apex is dilated sometimes into a 3-lobed saucer resembling ay 
Sclerias. The nut has the small outermost cells in 20-24 rows on each face. 
iddle- 
20. F. fuscinux, C. B. Clarke; nearly glabrous, stoma ui 
sized, leaves long, umbel large compound, glumes keeled acute pu 
style 2-fid, nut obovoid smooth dusky finally black. 
N. Innia; Moradabad, T. Thomson; SIKKIM TERAI, C. B. Clarke. Umbel often 
Stems 8-20 in. Leaves as long as }-% stem, rigid, tip subobtuse, | r by reason 
6 in. diam. Spikelets all solitary, ovoid, 3-3 in. long, somewhat anga " ders o 
of the keeled glumes. Glumes glabrate, margins ciliate hairy, $ VP rom 
puberulous, tips spreading not adpressed incurved (as in F. ferr uginea). 
. . it is nearer + 
large umbel and long leaves this has been referred to F. diphylla; itis T 
ferruginea. 
Pe 
21. F. albo-viridis, (. B. Clarke ms. in Herb. Dat Le 
somewhat lax, nut obovoid straw-colrd. shinin smooth or wl 
obscure longitudinal striations—otherwise as F. diphylla.  Crept 
E. BENGAL; Grifith (in Herb. Caleutt.) ; RrveR MEGNA, J. D. Hooker; 
AÀSSAM, Jenkins. twice compound, 
Stems 12-20 in. Leaves long, nearly glabrous. Umbel once or "n ed purple 
pedicels long. Spikelets 4-1 in. long, greenish-white, sometimes SR small, # 
chestnut. Nut often with minute scattered white scales ; outermost d examples 
25-30 longitudinal series on each face.— Very near F. diphylla, but a sch 
iphyl 
agree closely, and the marking of the nut is unlike that of F. diphy 
nearer that of F. podocarpa. 
short 
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22. F. ferruginea, Vahl Enum.291; stems 8-30 in» 107° ll 
sometimes none, glabrous or hairy, umbel simple or ys aee obovoid 
contracted, glumes often puberulous below tip, style un g, Nes ™ 
smooth pale finally brownish. Delile Fl. ZEgypt, 10, t. 6, Dë" 
