9-i CLARKE. 
200 published names. The synonyms cited (taken largely from StcudcVs her- 
barium) may prevent trouble in looking vainly for his ^Malayan species in the 
riiilippines.. 
Taking the species in the restricted sense, it is most variable, sometimes 
filiform, sometimes robust, normally glabrous but frequently very hairy, the culm 
often carrying one spikelet only, sometimes 200. The commonest Malayan form 
of the species has the nut somewhat scaly or scabrous on the shoulders, the stem 
and leaves not rarely hairy (Nos. 756, 757, 758 Loher) . 
10. Fimbristylis aestivalis Vahl. Enum. 2 (1806) 288. 
Small, tufted, umbel compound or decompound; ^pikelets small; nut 
oboYoid, straw coloredj not transversely barred. 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 637; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 230. 
FinihristyUs dichotoma Presl ! Rcl. Haenk. 1 : 191, non Vahl. JF'. sqtiarrosa 
Steud. ! in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Arcliip. heft 2, 61. F, triclioJcpls Miq. FI. Xcderl. 
Ind. 3: 319, et Suppl. 262. Sdrpus aestivalis Retz. Obs. 4; 12. 
Philippines, (Llanos); [Eaenl-e) . Luzon, Manila, {Wichura) ; (3174 Di- 
drichsen) ) (746 Loher)-, Benguet, (743, 744, 745 Loher); (6070 Elmer). 
India to Amurland and Australia; common. 
Var. ^ macrostacViya Benth. Fl. Austral. 7: 310. 
Stronger, with larger spikelets; nut obscurely ribbed longitudinally. 
Leyte, (1008 J'a<7or). 
North Australia. 
This variety tends toward Fimhristylis dichotoma Vahl. 
11. Fimbristylis podocarpa ISTees ! in Wight. Contrib. (1834) 98. 
IN'ut obovoidj on a conspicuous gynophore^ subcancellate but hardly 
transversely barred, otherwise as F. dlphylla Vahl. 
Nees in Linna^a 9 (1834) 290, et in Hook, et Arn. Beechy Voy. 225, partim; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 638; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 241. 
Fimhristylis communis (forma) Kunth, Enum. 2: 234. F. pohjmorpha (forma) 
Boeck. in Linnaea 37 (1871) 14. 
Luzon, (766 Loher). 
India, frequent; extending through Malaya to the Marianne Islands. Also 
from Brazil, there are two examples which are referred to F. podocarpa, but 
which are possibly depauperated F. spadicea Vahl. 
12. Fimbristylis ferruginea Vahl, Enum. 2 (1806) 291. 
Umbel often simple; glumes minutely pubescent on the shoulder; nut 
obovoid, smooth. 
Decaisne in Xouv. Ann. Mus. Paris, 3 (1834) 362; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
6: 038; Vidal, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 284; Phaner. Cuming Philip. 156; Hemsl. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 235; Merrill, Philip. Journ. Sei. 1 (1906) SuppL 
1: 30. Fimhristylis cyriophylla Miq. Fl. Nederl. Ind. 3: 325, F. trispicata 
Steud. Cyp. 107; Miq. 1. c. 317. Scirpus ferrugineus Linn. ! Sp. PI. ed. 1, 50, 
ed. 2, 74, et hb. propr. partim. 
Luzon, (127 Chamisso) ; (1341 Loher); (1396 Cuming); (1304 Whitford). 
CULION, (546 Merrill). 
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