Fimbristylis.] ^ ctxxi. cyperacer, (C. B. Clarke.) 651 
nut ; but sometimes 4-fld., the three lower flowers perfect. Lowest 3 glumes smaller 
empty; glume subaristate, with reeurved point (but see var. B). Style deciduous; 
base conic, dilated. — Nut smooth, reticulate. 
Var. B chinensis; spikelets less numerous, points of fl.-glumes shorter suberect. 
Arthrostylis chinensis, Benth. Fl. Haat, 397. Actinoschceni sp. Benth. in Hook. 
Ic. Pl. xiv. 33.—Perak, alt. 6500 ft., Wray, n. 354, alt. 800 ft., Kunstler (n. 
3373).—Hongkong. 
58. F. disticha, Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxviii. 393; stems 4-10 in. 
slender base leafy, umbel 1-3 times divided slender lax, spikelets small 
nirowly oblong flattened, lower glumes distichous, style 3-fid, nut 
obovoid pale verrucose almost tuberculate. 
Tavor; Wallich, Mouse: Parish. MERGUI; Grifith.—DisTRIB. Cochin 
ina, 
Annual. Stem 5-striate, base thickened by numerous sheaths. Leaves in the 
type 2 in., often much longer, flat, glabrous, tip obtuse. Umbel 4 in., nearly 
glabrous, bracts zin. Spikelets 1 by A in., pale brown, with about 15 flowers. 
Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, subobtuse, glabrous, margins minutely hairy, 1-2 lowest 
empty deciduous, Stamens often3. Style long, glabrous, deciduous with pyramidal 
tyle-base, branches long. Nut as long as 1-2 glume, round-trigonous. 
Var? Kurzii; stouter, umbel denser, rays hairy, spikelets stouter, glumes 
distichous densely minutely hairy.—Sikkim Terai; Titaliya, Kurz. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES OF Fimbristylis. 
,,b GAMBLEANA, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. ii, 40.—MADRas; alt. 3000 ft., Gamble — 
Allied to P, tenera," Boeck. 
9. BULBOSTYLIS, Kunth. 
Annuals. Stems slender, leafy only at base. Leaves very narrow and 
sheaths generally finely hairy. Corymb umbelliform or congested, some- 
times reduced to 1 spikelet. “Spikelet of numerous axillary perfect flowers, 
Scent at top. Glumes imbricated on all sides, 2-1 lowest empty. 
YPogynous bristles O. Stamens 3-1, usually 2; anthers not crested. 
Style ag long as nut, linear, glabrous; branches 3, linear; style-base very 
mall, bulbiform ; style with style-base deciduous, leaving a minute button 
D apex of nut. Nut obovoid, obtuse, 3-gonous, scarcely stalked, smooth. 
` ege 70, all warm regions. a 
his genus ises a la f very closely allied species, easily recognize 
$Y the ne leaves and da har as well as by the peculiar button left n 
“© nut (itself ultimately deciduous). They are placed in Fimbristylis by Bentham, who 
tid great stress in the Cyperacee on the inflorescence ; and by Boeckeler in Scirpus. 
y are really very closely allied to Eleocharis (of which genus one American 
Z'm 1s Bulbostylis nudipes, Kunth), from which genus the few Indian Bu 
ylides are easily distinguished by their leaves. 
D f. Parbata, Kunth Enum, ii 208 (see E ee 
=á ik şs i ead, s -fid, stra - 
peeurely wl or poros punctate B. Wallichiana and Willdenowii, 
uath Le 209, 210. Scirpus barbatus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. Di 1 " CN 
Qu TE in Linnea, xxxvi. 751 (excl. var. B). S. antarcticus, f p 
P96; Roxb. FL Ind. i, 223 (not Linn.) S. monander, Row à d ES 
b Puberulus, Boeck, le. 767 (armeroides only). Isolepis barbata, Dr. 
acr. 229: Nees in Wight Contrib, 109; Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 73; 
"- FL Ind, Bat. ii 310; Thw. Enum. 350. l. Wallichiana, Roem. j 
