640 CLXXIL OYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) ` [Fimbristylis. 
25. P. rigidula, Nees in Wight Contrib. 99; rhizome horizontal 
woody short, leaves longish, umbel once or twice compound, s ikelets 
very obtuse solitary and paired, style 2-fid, nut obovoid smooth sch 
straw-colrd. F. Hanceana, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvn. 394,—Fimbristylis, 
Wall. Cat. 3519 (partly). 
From KUMAON, alt. 0-6000 ft. to Bengal, C. B. Clarke. MUNEYPOOB, Watt, 
Sman Hiris, Collett.—Distr1B. China, Philippines. . i 
Stems 4-16 in., thickened at base, closely l-seriate on rhizome. Lent el ml? 
as 4 culm, glabrous, or (with their sheaths) pubescent ; tip subobtuse. U: sani 
in. diam., somewhat lax; bracts short, Spikelets 1} in., ellipsoid or subg ^ . 
Nut nearly as of F. ferruginea, but paler, less glistening ; outermost cells e e 
series on each face, i.e. nut minutely reticulate, faintly 20-30 striate longitu als 
—Well-marked by the rhizome and paired subglobose spikelets. The F. ng e of 
Herb. Berol. reduced to F. diphylla by Kunth and ` Boeckeler, i$ not the pla 
Nees. 
26. F. spathacea, Roth. Nov. Pl. Sp. 24; leaves short rigid, umbel 
compound with solitary spikelets often contracted sometimes subcaprs e 
glumes obtuse often notched, style 2-fid, nut obovoid smooth or wg 
tubercled dusky. F. Wightiana, Nees in Wight Contrib. 99; Thw. ort 
349. F. glomerata, Nees in Linnza, ix. 290; Boeck. in Linnea, XX 109. 
47. F.rigida, Kunth Enum. ii. 231. F. ciliolata, Steud. Syn. Le 
F. capitata, Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 61 (not of Br.). F. lon 422 
Steud. l.c. 117. F. junciformis, Munro in Seem. Bot. Voy. Bowe 
(not of Kunth). F. biumbellulata, Boeck. in Flora, xli. 604 (see 5 A 
Scirpus glomeratus, Retz Obs. iv. 11 (not of Rowb.). S. strictus, 40%" 
Ind. i. 226.—Cyperus, Wall, Cat. 3300 (partly). n. - 
From SIND, and Orissa, to CEYLON and SINGAPORE.—DISTRIB. Ware y T 
Stems 4-16 in., tufted, rigid. Leares as long as } stem (often a examples, 
narrow, glabrous, margins incurved. Umbel 2 in. diam. in well-developed * in les 
usually somewhat dense with solitary but closely approximated spikele virtually 
developed examples the spikelets are nearly or quite clustered, sometime, soid, up 
in a single head ; bracts short, broad. Spikelets 4—4 by de in., cylindric or e 
to 60in an umbel. Glwmes ovate, concave, incurved, margins gcarious. long 25 i 
usualy 2. Style somewhat shorter than nut, often glabrous. Nut as ext series 
glume, biconvex, shortly stalked.—This plant offers a transition to the n e 
(F. argentea, sericea, &c.) by the often clustered spikelets ; Boeckeler A it (00 
to know this contracted form (which is not Nees’ type), and to have po, qno 
account of such occasionally contracted heads) in the 3-stigma group ur 
jwnciformis, &c. In F. spathacea, the style is never 3-fid. 
Series B. Spikelets, or some of them, clustered. (See also F. 
F. rigidula, and occasionally F. diphylla in series A, B.) 
* Stems with only one head. 
27. F. argentea, Vahl Enum. ii. 294; stems leafy at bases d, nat 
linear-cylindric grey or whiteish, glumes scarcely acute, siye i 
obovoid pale smooth or obscurely transversely wavy liner un. 988; 
Wight Contrib. 100; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 987; Thw. FT 51, t. 
Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 8. Scirpus argenteus, Rottb. Descr. p c, 50, t 
17, fig. 6; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 223. S. monander, Rottb. Deser. ^r Mal. 
14, fig, 3 (not of Rozb).—Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3483.— Rheede 
M witius, $% 
From Bencar and Ozwrmar Inpia to Ceyron.—Disreis. Ma 
Boeckeler. 
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