Fimbristylis. | CLVI, CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). 421 
in. broad. Umbel loose, subcompound, of 2-9 spikelets; bracts 2-3, 
3 in. long. Spikelets } by 4 in., rather dense, dull brown. Glumes 
ovate, obtuse, sometimes minutely apiculate. Style shorter than the 
nut, nearly glabrous, deciduous together with the small pyramidal base; 
branches 3, long. Nut less than } the length of the glume, obovoid, 
smooth or nearly so, brown.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 609. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1824! 
Var. angustior, C. B. Clarke. Slender. Stems and leaves conspicuously dotted. 
Umbel simple, depauperated. Nut somewhat tubercled. 
Upper Guinea. Soudan, Lécard, 111! 
15, F. miliacea, Vahl, Enum. ii. 287. A glabrous annual. Stems 
8-24 in. long, tufted, often flattened at the base with apparently 
distichous leaves, at the top with 4-5 equal angles. Leaves usually 
4 the length of the stem, sometimes overtopping the stem, sometimes 0, 
aarrowly linear. Umbel compound, often 6 in. in diam., with 60-100 
solitary spikelets; bracts about 1 in. long. Spikelets ;4; in. in diam., 
globose or short-cylindric, obtuse. Style 3-fid. Nut less than $ the 
length of the glume, obovoid, with delicate transverse bars in vertical 
Series, straw-coloured or pale brown, smooth or more or less tubercled. 
—Kunth, Enum. ii. 230; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 43; C. B. Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 644, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. FI. 
Afr. v. 607; K. Schum, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124; Urban, Symb. 
Antill. ii, 81. Scirpus miliaceus, Thunb. Fl. Japon. 37, not of 
Linn, Scirpus sp. n. 77, Rottb. Deser. et Ic. 57, t. 5, tig. 2. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 212! 327! 389! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Boivin / 
Common in the Mascarene Islands and throughout all tropical and subtropical 
areas, except Africa, whence only the above collections have been seen. 
16. F. quinquangularis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 229, Spikelets 4-5 by 
To in., ellipsoid-lanceolate, and 6—15-flowered ; otherwise as /’. miliacea. 
—Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 42; CO. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vi. 644, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 609. Scirpus 
quinquangularis, Vahl, Enum. ii. 279. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 5166! 
Lower Guinea. Congo Free State: Lower Congo ; Kisantu, Gillet ! 
Also in Mauritius, India, South-East Asia, Queensland, Guiana. A rice-tield 
le indigenous perhaps in India, occasionally collected in nearly all parts of the 
world, 
__ 17. F. subaphylla, Boeck. in Flora, 1879, 565. Glabrous. Stems 
12-16 in. long, approximate on a very short woody rhizome, at the top 
4-angular and more or less flattened. Leaves usually $ in., sometimes 
Up to 2 in., long. Umbel 2-4 in. in diam., with 30-60 spikelets ; bracts 
2-3, less than 1 in. long. Spikelets } by zis in., 5-1 4-flowered, cinna- 
Mon-brown. Style longer than the nut, glabrous, deciduous together 
