650 CLXXII, CYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Fimbristylis. 
NEPAL; Wallich. BURRAKUR; Kurz Preu; Kurz. PENANG; alt. 2500 ft., 
Kunstler.—Di1sTRIB. Malaya, China. 18 
Rhizome very short, woody, horizontal, densely leafy. Stems about b ? 
slender, angular, glabrous. Leaves scarcely as much as } stem, yz ln. pn 
minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous, tip obtuse. Umbel 1-23 in. diam., "n 
about 10-20 spikelets; bracts 4-2 in., usually hairy. Spikelets 3-5 by Vi ^ 
flattened; lowest three glumes empty, lowest 2 shorter; nut-bearing glumes SN 
subdistichous, upper glumes 3-6 male or sterile 3-several-ranked. Glumes berg 
mucronate, margins scarious, upwards often glandular. Stamens usually 2. Nul 
long, slender, glabrous, deciduous with pyramidal style-base; branches Diner lux 
as long as 1i-3 glume, subacutely trigonous, obtuse; outermost cells somewhat 123, 
sometimes almost papillose. 
55. F. fulvescens, Thw. Enum, 434; annual, glabrous, leaves i 
long as 1-1 stem, otherwise nearly as F. fusca, var. B longifolia. Boeck. 
Linnea, xxxvii. 55. Abildgaardia fulvescens, Tuv. Le, 347. 
CEYLON; Walker, Thwaites (n. 679). ith pale- 
Stems tufted. Umbel nearly as in F. fusca, or sometimes more loose, wt ` p in 
cinnamon long-pedicelled spikelets; bracts ligulate scabrous. Spikelets 573 ™ 
broad, i.e. often rather broader than in F. fusca. 
56. F. cyperoides, Br. Prodr. 228; leaves several long nanon 
umbel compound, bracts short, glumes few-ranked boat-shaped aoum be- 
brown glandular, style 3-fid, nut oblong-obovoid pale transversely eii 
culate. Benth, Fl. Austral. vii. 917. F. biflora, Boeck. in Linnea, XXX te) 
393. Abildgaardia cyperoides, Nees in Wight Contrib. 95 (im m0. 
Gussonea cyperoides, Presl. Rel. Henk. i. 183, t. 33 (see Benth. & Hook.f. 
Gen. Pl. 1049.) 
N. AUSTRALIA, PHILIPPINE, CAROLINE ISLES. ximate 
Stems about 1 ft., slender (base thickened by horny sheaths) closely ap hairy. 
ona very short rhizome. Leaves as long as i-i stem, glabrous or minute 4 fewer, 
Umbel 1-3} in. diam., sometimes with 80 spikelets usually with mo Jowes 
glabrous or minutely hairy; bracts l-lin. Spikelets + by de in. flattened ; upper 
2-3 glames empty, lowest 1-2 small; nut-bearing glumes 2-4, distichou*, long, 
glumes 3-6, male or sterile, 3-several-ranked. Stamens often 3. Sty “Nut as 
slender, deciduous with its hairy pyramidal style-base; branches linear, 
long as 2 glume, round trigonous.— California (Presl.) is an error for Manila. tufted, 
Var. cinnamometorum (sp.) Kunth Enum. ii, 229; roots fibrous, stem apose 
nut shining somewhat polygonal, outermost cells transversely oblong Sim its 3 
regularly in 7-11 vertical series on each face (i.e. nut 7-li-ribbed on eat Scirpus 
faces). Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 35. F. glabra, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 111, chiefly. Nees in 
cinnamometoram, Vahl Enum. ii. 278. Trichelostylis cinnamometorum, cl, sym 
Linnea, ix. 290. Abildgaardia cinnamometorum, Tw. Enum. 347 Zb 
fusca).—Pegu and Ceylon; China.—Steudel's F. glabra is founded on one lepis ; 
n. 131, a, which is this o cinnamometorum," mixed with F. tenera Val. oy 
Steudel’s description regards mostly cinnamometorum. 
ikelets 
_ 57. F. actinoscheenus, C. B. Clarke; leaves hardly any, TEL, 
in one small dense head 4-1-fld, glumes about 6 few-ranke hoenus 
subdistichous, style 3-fid, nut small obovoid trigonous. Än mis, 
filiformis, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiv. 33,t. 1346. Arthrostylis Å 1 
Thw. Enum. 352; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 524. 
CEYLON; Thwaites (n. 3469), Beckett. reen, 
Glabrous, perennial. Stems slender, 12-30 in. Leaves 0-3 in., setae g ts 
close to base of stem. Spikelets up to 20 in a globose head 4-4 in. a” 
: cting * 
0-3 in., setaceous. Spikelets 1 in., usually 2-fid., lower flower alone perfe 
