426 CLVI, CYPERACEA (CLARKE). | Fimbristyhis. 
3 shorter than the umbel; rays spreading, capillary, angular, scabrous 
on the angles, the longer about 1 in., with 2 or 3 branches. Spikelets 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, ‘terete subangular,” 18—10-flowered, 3-2} 
lin. long. Glumes in several ranks, rigid, rather close together, 
adpressed, broad-ovate, boat-shaped, obtuse or very shortly mucronate, 
keel green, 1-nerved, sides smooth, rusty straw-coloured, margins white, 
hyaline. Nut small, by more than one-half shorter than the glume, 
obovate, trigonous, the angles marked by a prominent line, with a 
small boss, cancellate, pale straw-coloured. Style but little exserted,. 
shortly 3-fid. 
Wile Land. (ialabat : region of Matamma, Schweinfurth (ex Boeckeler). 
The cover of this species in the Berlin Herbarium was found empty so that the 
plant has probably been removed to some known species, 
26. F. oligostachya, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 125. 
Tufted ; roots fibrous, very slender. Stems erect, 2—1 in. long, capillary, 
4-angled. Leaves shorter than the stem, capillary. Spikelets 5-1, 
capitate, oblong-ovoid, obtuse, 12—8-flowered, 2-14 lin. long. Bracts 2; 
the lower overtopping the spikelets. Glumes membranous, 3-ranked, 
at length spreading, ovate, acute, boat-shaped, hairy, pale rust-coloured,. 
sometimes chestnut-wavy-marbled near the prominent obsoletely 
3-nerved keel ; margins subciliate. Nut very small, half the length of 
the glume, obovate, attenuate close to the base, triangular, transversely 
coarsely wrinkled, longitudinally striate, chestnut-coloured, shining > 
the tubercle minute, depressed, concolorous. Style very slender, shortly 
exserted, 3-fid.— 7’. minima, Hochst. ex Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 744. 
Scirpus oligostachyus, Boeck. 1.c. 743. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, ex Boeckeler § K. Schumann. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, ex K. Schumann. 
F. oligostachys, Hochst. (nu. 21 above) was founded on Schimper ». 1268 > 
K. Schumann says expressly that the present plant is not that, and places it in his. 
section Bulbostylis, to which, from Boeckeler’s description, it may belong. 
27. FP. setifolia, 4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 507. Perennial, 
stoutly tufted. Stem erect, slender, 1 ft. long, striate, very seabrous.. 
Leaves linear, convolute, setaceous, scabrid, ciliate, shorter than the 
stem. Spikes 5—6, subsessile, agglomerate, terminal ; bracts 0. Glumes 
imbricate on all sides, oval, obtuse, subfimbriate on the edges, purple, 
on the back 1-nerved and subscabrid. Stigmas 3. Immature nut 
triquetrous. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia: Wojerat district; in the mountains, Petit (ex 
A, Richard). 
A. Richard adds that the species is very close to F. oligestachys, but 1s —_ 
larger than it and with more numerons leaves. I refrain from hazarding any gv 
from the description, whica (with all its detai') contains nothing to show oe 
genus the plant belongs. 
28. F. thonningiana, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 399. aig 
tufted. Root fibrous, slender. Stem filiform, furrowed, ang¥ me 
