Fimbristylis.| ^ cuxxi. ceERAcEE. (C. B. Clarke.) . 643 
N.W. HiMALAYA, alt, 4-9000 ft. SrMLA, T. Thomson, Gamble, KUMAON, 
Duthie,—DisTRIB. Japan. 
. Stolons up to 2 in., densely clothed by lanceolate striate scales, finally hardening 
mto a woody rhizome. Leaves as long as À stem, flat, acute. OUmbel 1-3 in. in 
diam., with 5-14 spikelets ; bracts short. Spikelets 4 by 1 in., ellipsoid-lanceolate, 
10-fid. Glumes adpressed, boat-shaped, ovate, shortly acuminate, chestnut or testa- 
ceous, usually with round glands in upper half, margins scarious. Style long, 
Lem, deciduous with narrow style-base. Wut as long as 4-2 glume, tip sub- 
pyramidal. 
** Stem with many spikelets (at least in fairly developed examples). 
+ Nut slenderly trabeculate (outermost cells transversely oblong). 
35. F. Arnottiana, Boeck. in Linnza, xxxvii. 28; stems a foot (at 
least), umbel decompound, spikelets cuboid-ellipsoid one-colrd., glumes 
ovate obtuse brown hardly keeled, style 3-fid, nut obovoid yellow-brown 
transversely lineate obscurely tuberculated. 
. Deccan PENINSULA ; Cannanore, Campbell (Herb. Wight propr., n. 1884, 
right-hand plant only). . . 
tems somewhat slender, 4-5-angular under umbel. Umbel 3-4 in. diam., 
glabrous, with 30 spikelets; bracts 3-4, up to 2 in. long, very narrow. Spikelets 
y à in., obtuse, 10-fld., styles conspicuously protruded. Glumes concave, ad- 
pressed incurved, scarcely striate. Stamens 2-3; anthers linear-oblong, scarcely 
apiculate. Style as long as nut, slender, glabrous, deciduous with the narrow style- 
` Nut small, as long as 43-2 glume.—Founded on some upper portions of stems 
Without leaves, pasted down (in Herb. Wight) with F. quinquangularis, to which it 
ig closely allied, 
36. F. filifolia, Boeck. in Iinnæa, xxxvii. 32; stems 2 ft. quadran- 
ar, leaves long narrow convolute or 0, umbel decompound and supra- 
“compound, spikelets ellipsoid acute, style 3-fid, nut obovoid straw-yellow 
Tooth obscurely transversely lineolate.—Trichelostylis sp., n. 14, Herb. 
^d. Or. H, SI & T. 
SIKKIM Tznar; Dulkajhar, alt. 500 ft., C. B. Clarke. Kuasia HILLS; Churra, 
alt. 4200 ft., J. D. H., &e. ' , 
labrous, Leaves sometimes as long nearly as stem, often shorter, sometimes 0. 
mbel 4-12 in. in diam., with many (sometimes 250) solitary spikelets ; bracts 
2 in, Spikelets 1 by } in., brown. Glumes ovate, obtuse, with 3 green nerves. 
Style as long as nut, slender, slightly villous below trifurcation, deciduous with the 
narrow pyramidal style-base ; branches long linear. Nut as long as $ glume, round 
Eonous ; outermost cells in about 12 longitudinal series on each face.—Resembles 
line examples of F. diphylla, but differs not only in the 3-fid style, but in the long 
ear style-branches, 
37. F. as e oeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 40; stems 1}-2} ft., 
leaves long, Paba decompound with numerous spikelets, bracts acute 
n longer than umbel, style 3-fid, nut ellipsoid brown smooth trans- 
versely trabeculate smooth or slightly tuberculate. F. cheetorrhiza, Thw. 
Enum. 349 ( partly, not of Kunth). Isolepis dura, Moritzi, Verz. Zoll. PL 
. Trichelostylis asperrima, Nees ms.—Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3502 B 
(Partly), 3525 (mized). 
Czvrow, Thwaites, &, From Tavox, Wallich, to SINGAPORE, Ridley, frequent. 
"Dees, Malaya. 
tems either 5-angular or flattened under umbel. Leaves several, often as long 
T + Umbel large, sometimes with 150 solitary spikelets. Spikelets, style, and 
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