648 CLXXI. OYPERACEE, (C. B. Clarke.) ` [Fimbristylis. 
spikelets in the typical form, but examples with many solitary few clustered spike- 
lets occur, j-i in., brown or chestnut-colrd., many-fld. Glumes ovate, rw, 
margins conspicuously scarious, Stamens 3. Style longer than nut, "eo e 
slightly villous below trifurcation, deciduous with the small pyramidal style- e 
branches long. Nut as long as 4 glume, not (or obscurely) striate.—F. Warem 
Dietr. is the older (but less certain) name for this species. The Californian ba?! 
given by Boeckeler is probably erroneous, 
. : : : i t mostly 
Var. abbreviata (sp.) Boeck. in Flora, xli. 601 ; spikelets some paired bu 
solitary. F. chetorrhiza, Thw. Enum. 349 (partly).—Ceylon ; Thwaites, Gardner. 
Deccan Peninsula; Wallich n. 3620 A. (partly). Anamallay Mts. ; Beddome. 
Var, latifolia (sp.) Kunth Z. c. 239; leaves 4-2 by 2 in. flat curved and seen 
spikelets rather many (rarely all) solitary. F. falcata, Boeck. in prc "tfoli 
48. F.torta, Kunth l.c. 24; Boeck.1.c. 81.  Trichelostylis torta and T. Dum 
Nees im Wight Contrib. 105, 106.—Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. $498— 
Peninsula; Wight, Wallich. Ceylon; Walker. 
49. F. nigrobrunnea, Thw. Enum. 494; stems 8-20 in. baie 
several stout obtuse, umbel simple compound or decom pound, sp lower 
some clustered (rarely all solitary), glumes shining hard dark-brown "" n 
few-ranked or obscurely distichous, style 3-fid, nut obovoid y ellow- SECH 
verrucose or nearly smooth. F. subtetrastachya, Boeck. in Lm s 
50. F. pyenostachya, Hance in Journ. Bot. xv. 998. Ab lis 
Eragrostis, Boeck. l.c. 55 (partly, not of Nees & Meyen) En y 
Wall. Cat. 3523.—Trichelostylis sp. n. 20, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & ^ 
D 
KnasiA Hinrs, alt. 3-5000 ft. MuwExPooR; alt. 3500 ft., Watt. Regus 
PENINSULA; Courtallum, Wight. NicoBARS. CEYLON, Thwaites, &c—— 
Cambodia. in, broad. 
Glabrous. Rhizome hardly any. Leaves as long as j-$ stem, by Lbs 2-10 
Umbel 3-6 in. diam. ; bracts about i in.; spikelets in the common Khasia es muc 
to a cluster, in the Ceylon form solitary. Spikelets } by } in. Or SC Style 
smaller, Glumes ovate, acute, keeled, adpressed. Stamens generally m" —This 
as long as nut, slightly villous below trifurcation. Nut as long as $ glume. 
species might perhaps be arranged in Sect. Abildgaardia. 
: der, 
50. F- uliginosa, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 109; stems 4-8 m, E 
leaves almost bristle-like, spikelets clustered black-chestnut, gets Dy 
an obovoid smooth pale slightly narrowed at top. Boeck. w Lanne 
Rene HILLs ; alt. 6-7000 ft., Perrottet, &c. m 
Leaves as long as 4-4 stem, Ae in. broad. Umbel simple or © o 
to a single cluster sometimes to a single spikelet.—Otherwise as F. mgr 
Thw., of which this may be a small mountain state. 
en reducel 
-brunnedy 
. s stle-like 
51. F. digitata, Boeck. in Flora, lxi. 35; stems 2-5 1n. brist stylo 
base bulbous, spikelets 3-8 straw-colrd. in a subterminal bend, th. & 
3-fid, nut obovoid smooth straw-colrd. or finally brownish. xxxvi 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1050. Scirpus Lawianus, Boeck. tn Jm 
479. Trichelostylis digitata, H. f. & T. ms. 
BOMBAY ; Dalzell. Canara; La ng ; Belekerri, Talbot. that 
Glabrous. Leaves as long A "Sem, bestie dike, Bracts 2-1, piu 
head. Spikelets 3-4 by 44-3 in., 6-18-fld. Glwmes ovate-oblong, roman 
keeled, chaffy, nearly 1-colrd, Siyle nearly as long as nut, KIT me, sessile, 
with small pyramidal style-base, branches linear. Wut as long as 387^ 
round-trigonous, obtuse at top. 
