Fimbristylis.] CLXXII, OYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 649 
Sect. IV. Apitpcaarpia (Genus) Vah] Enum. ii. 296, Lower glumes 
of spikelet distichous or nearly so, upper fertile glumes spirally placed. 
(See also F. nigrobrunnea, sp. n. 49 above.) Spikelets not clustered. 
* Spikelets pale, nut large triquetrous base much narrowed. 
,92. F. monostachya, Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 61; stems leafy at base 
with 1 (rarely 2-3) spikelet, nut-bearing glumes 2-3-stichous shortly 
mucronate, style 3-fid, nut somewhat large obovoid more or less tuberculate 
straw-colrd. or pale-brown. Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 308. Cyperus mono- 
stachyus, Linn. Mant. 180; Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 18, t. 13, fig. 3. C. indicus, 
Pers, Syn. i. 65. Scirpus schosnoides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 221. Abildgaardia 
monostachya, Vahl Enum. ii. 296; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 286; Thw. 
num. 347; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 59. A. levigata, Link Jahrb. iii. 
81. A. Rottboelliana, Nees in Wight Contrib. 95. A. compressa, Presl. 
Hel Hænk. i. 179. A. indica, Nees in Linnea, ix. 289.— Àbildgaardia, 
Wall. Cat, 3491. 
Throughout warmer IND1A.— DISTRIB. All warm regions. 
Glabrous. Rhizome 0, or very short. Stems 2-16 in., tufted, slender, angular. 
Caves as long as 4 stem, narrow. Spikelet quasi-terminal (bract hardly any) à by 
Jn. or in some of Wallich’s collections nearly twice these dimensions, compressed 
with glumes distichous), or often twisted. Glumes ovate, acute, keel green, sides 
straw-colrd. or yellow. Stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong not crested. Style long, 
villous nearly to the base, deciduous with pyramidal style-base; branches rather 
ort. Nut as long as j-1 glume, base much contracted. 
53. F. tristachya; Thw. Enum. 434 (not of Br. or Nees); stem stout 
katy at base with 2-5 (rarely 1) large spikelets, nut-bearing glumes 2-3- 
stichous shortly mucronate, style 3-fid, nut large obovoid tuberculate 
ultimately brown-black. Cyperus triflorus, Lina. Mant. 62. Schoenus 
cyperoides, Retz Obs. iv. 8. ` Abildgaardia tristachya, Vahl Enum. ii. 297 ; 
ees in Wight Contrib. 95; Thw. l.c. 347; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 54. 
och Onostachya, var. Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 61.—Isolepis?, Wall. Cat. 
e Drccaw PENINSULA, frequent; Wight, Ze, CEYLON; Thwaites.—DISTRIB. 
armer Africa, . . 
tems 1-23 ft. Leaves as long as j stem, rigid. Spikelets 1 in., compressed, 
often twisted. This species is altogether larger than the common forms of F. mono- 
Pachya : from the large form of F. monostachya it does not differ much except by 
its dark nut, 
** Spikelets brown, nut small base not much narrowed. 
54. F. fus enth. im Gen. PL iii. 1048; leaves several short 
flat, nmbel often compound, bracts short, glumes few-ranked boat- 
shaped acute brown puberulous, style 3-fid, nut obovoid pale smooth 
slig tly verrucose. F. cinnamometorum, Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 
132 (not Kunth). F. Kampheeveneri, Boeck. in Engler Bot. Jahrb. v. 505. 
7880nia pauciflora, Brongn. in Bot. Duperr. Voy. 171, t. 34, B. Abildga- 
ardiafusea, Nees in Wight Contrib. 95 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 54. A. 
pauciflora, Kunth Enum. ii. 249. Schcenus puberulus, C. A. Meyer Cyp. 
Nov. 2, t, 1. Rynchospora ? anomala, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 149; Mig. Fl. Ind. 
Q ve li. 337. “Isolepis longispica, Steud. l.e. 104.—Fimbristylis, Wall. 
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