646 OLXXIL OYPERAOEA, (C. B. Clarke.) [Fimbristylis. 
. : . -94 in. 
43. F. complanata, Link Hort. Berol. i 292; stems 8-2 
flattened under umbel, leaves almost premorse, style 3-fid, nut mine 
obovoid pale more or less tuberculate. hw. Enum. 949. F. ani Sr 
var, Roth. Nov. Pl. Sp. 26; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvu. 398. F. Scirpus 
Kunth Enum. ii, 245. F. Boeckeleri, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 113, partly. Scirpus 
complanatus, Retz Obs. v.14; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 228. S. anceps, i te 
Berl. Mag. ii. 288, t. 8, fig. 2; Bech, Le 230. Cyperus compianto 
Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 270. Isolepis complanata & Willdenown, Home. Wight 
Syst. ii. 119, 120. Trichelostylis complanata & T. scabra, Nees ` 
Contrib. 103.—Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3502 A, 3510, 3525 (partiy). 
Throughout INDIA in the warm region.—DisTR1s. All warm regions. often 
Glabrous, Rhizome hardly any, sometimes very short horizontal. Le UU 
4-8 by iin. Umbel often 4 in. in diam., compound and mër similar to 
times with 180 spikelets; bracts 2, shorter than umbel (often Suberee Style longer 
leaves, almost premorse. Spikelets } by Ae in. Stamens usually f glume; outer- 
than nut, glabrous; branches linear, long. Nut about 3 length o Z t scarcely 
most cells short oblong transverse, in vertical series but obscure (i. e. 
striate). 
: . slender 
Var. microcarpa (sp. F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral. i. 200: Y ste (i.e. 
hardly flattened under umbel, spikelets more slender, nut very Ep iral. vii. 316. 
outermost cells withering and partly peeling off). Benth. Fl. Austra’ Y 
F. tenera, Boeck. in, Flora, Iviii. [1875] 111 (excl. var, mof of Room "288. 
Kumaon, alt. 8000 ft., Strachey & Winterbottom, n. 2; Sikkim, alt. ? 
Bombay, Dalzell_—Eastern Asia, Australia. ta, Link, and F. 
This species admitted by Bentham, comes between F. complanata, i 
autumnalis, Roem. & Sch., species which Boeckeler unites. arely fat- 
Var. Kraussiana, (sp.) Hochst. in Flora, xxviii. 757; stems slender ono spikelets. 
tened under umbel, umbel more compact less compound often with "Afric. 
F. connectens, Thaw. Enum. 349.— Ceylon, Thwaites.—China, Malaya, 
bpatent 
Var. fenestrata; spikelets larger rusty-brown, glumes large SC We e 
obtuse sbining, nut white fenestrate by the strongly reticulate persis ee Stems 
cells.—Deccan Peninsula; Palimcottah, Wight (n. 2899).—Roots fi bron "iin. , 
16 in., tufted, conspicuously flattened at top. Leaves as long as $ Stem, $ 2 by 
> ikelets $ 
tip subobtuse. Umbel and bracts nearly as in F, complanata, typ- Spike 
š in., many-fld. 
44. F. Thomsonii, Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 37; stem spi 
leaves flat tip obtuse, umbel compound and supradecompou* errucose OF 
ellipsoid acute, style 3-fid, nut oblong-obovoid straw-colr t nata th. 
subtuberculate obscurely transversely lineolate. F. comp an , 
Fl. Hongk. 393,—Trichelostylis, sp. n. Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 4 T Nagpore H 
N.E. Inpia, alt. 500-4000 ft., from SIKKIM, ASSAM and Chota 
ManTABAN and Suan HILLS, common.—DIsTRIB. Tonquin, Chins. or sometimes 
Glabrous. Roots fibrous. Stems upwards obscurely 4-angular, Cmbel 2- V» 
subcompressed. Leaves sometimes short 2-4 in., sometimes a foot. el, 2 
diam., with sometimes 80 spikelets; bracts 4-5, usually shorter than R e form of E 
lets $ by bin. Nut as long as 2 glume.— This species is near the lets and largë 
complanata, Link, from which it mainly differs by the thicker sp! 
nut (is probably often passed for F. diphylla, Vahl). 
ess > 
45. F. Salbundia, Kunth Enum. ii. 230; stems 13-3 i Jor glum 
angular, umbel decompound with 120 ovoid testaceous SP! Sg smooth 0f 
keeled rather lax, style 3-fid, nut obovoid yellow-brown Ser ht Contrib. 
slightly tuberculate. Trichelostylis Salbundia, Nees in WY 
