Finbristylis.] CLXXIL CYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 641 
Stems annual, tufted, trigonous, 4-8 in. (or in Duthie n. 9860, stem 0, spikelets 
basal). Leaves usually shorter than stem, narrow, glabrous. Spikelets 4—20 in the 
head, 2 by A in., densely-fld.; bracts 2-4, much overtopping head. Glumes ovate, 
silver-grey, keel green. Stamen often 1. Style small, shorter than nut, nearly 
glabrous, deciduous with its base. Nut very small, about à as long as glume, 
biconvex, almost margined ; outer cells obscure. 
8. F. albicans, Nees in Wight Contrib. 100; stems leafy at base, 
spikelets ellipsoid rusty grey, glumes scarcely acute, style 2-fid, nut 
ovoid straw-colrd. smooth transversely minutely trabeculate. Boeck. in 
mnæa, xxxvii. 9.—Isolepis, Wall. Cat. 3482. 
DECCAN PENINSULA; Wight, Wallich. 
Nearly glabrous. Stems 8-14 in., slender. Leaves narrowly ligulate, tip sud- 
denly narrowed acute. Spikelets 4-15 in the head, 4 by à in. Stamens often 2. 
Style longer than nut, slender, glabrous, with long linear branches. Nut small, 
ning; outermost cells conspicuous, transversely oblong, not accurately superim- 
posed in vertical series (so that the nut is scarcely striated longitudinally).—Other- 
wise as F, argentea, 
** Clusters of spikelets subumbellately corymbed. 
29. F. Hookeriana, Boeck. in Linnza, xxxvii. 22; nearly glabrous, 
spikelets clustered and solitary linear-lanceolate, style 2-fid, nut obovoid 
Yellow-brown squamose-tuberculate. 
Kuasta Hits, alt. 1500-4000 ft. Cora NAGPonz ; alt. 2000 ft. Clarke. 
Annual, Stems 4-10 in., tufted, compressed. Leaves often as long as stem, 
doe, flat. Umbel often 4-6 in. diam.; branches oblique-erect ; bracts like the 
“ves, often overtopping umbel. Spikelets 1-6 in a cluster, A by jy—js in., 
Glumes rather remote, oblong, shortly acute, adpressed incurved, rusty- 
Eeen, keeled, brown-scarions on sides. Stamens usually 2. Style longer than nut, 
ech flattened, slightly dilated at base, villous nearly its whole length, deciduous 
ith style-base, Nut as long as 3-4 glume, biconvex, obtuse, very shortly stalked ; 
cells transversely-oblong, regularly superimposed in 12-15 vertical series in 
“ch face (i.e. nut slenderly longitudinally 12-15-ribbed); shoulders of nut 
berculate by small scales or papillze. 
ben F. sericea, Br. Prod. 228; leaves numerous, white silky strigose 
; eath, spikelets ellipsoid-oblong silvery grey, style 2-fid, nut obovoid 
pooth pale. Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 22. F. decora, Nees & Meyen in 
ght Contrib. 101. F. dasyphylla, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 327. F. velu- 
Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxvi. 87. 
Dr ESSA Poori, W. S. Atkinson; Ganjam, Lawson. SINGAPORE, Ridley.— 
Re E. Asia, Malaya, Australia. . -mes divided 
les 1z0me descending or horizontal, woody, up to 3 in. long, sometimes divided, 
be? Covered by leaves. Stems 4-8 in., rigid, striate. Leaves as long as 1-3 
» rigid, curved, AA in. broad. Umbel 3-3 in. in diam., simple or compound ; 
Gham 3-3 in. Spikelets 2-6 in a cluster, 4 by 4-j.in., somewhat densely “flowered. 
Mee: erect adpressed, ovate, keeled, scarcely acute, striate, dusky purp e-green, 
Int, ent by minute white hairs, margins scarious white. Style about as ong as 
N slightly villous below bifurcation, deciduous with style-base. Wut as long as 
Sume, biconvex, scarcely stalked. 
Sect, IIT. Tg ; i Fam. Cyp.40. Lowest 
3. ^ ALL IRICH Genus), Lestib. Essai Fam. Cyp 
tile glumes of spikelet spirally Greg stems with many or several 
Vier few or 1) spikelets. Style 3-fid (in F. cymosa and F. globulosa, the 
vo, Bowers in a spike have often 3-fid style, the upper a 2-fid ty le). 
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