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FIMBRISTYLIS Vahl 
FIMBRISTYLIS DIPHYLLA (Retz.) Vahl Enum. 2 (1806) 289; Safford 
176. 
Scirpus diphyllus Retz. Obs. 5 (1789) 16. 
Fimbristylis affinis Pres] Rel. Haenk. 1 (1828) 191 (type from Guam). 
Fimbristylis marianna Gaudich. in Freyce. Voy. Bot. (1826) 413 (type 
from Guam.) 
G. E. S. 288, 246, McGregor 518, Thompson 6. Here I also refer Thomp- 
son 5, a form with a congested, subglobose inflorescence. 
Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
FIMBRISTYLIS COMPLANATA (Retz.) Link Hort. Berol. 1 (1827) 292; 
Safford 276. 
Scirpus complanatus Retz. Obs. 5 (1879) 14. 
G. E. S. 241, McGregor 441, 537, all forms with congested, subglobose 
inflorescences, but the structure of the spikelets as in typical Fimbristylis 
complanata. 
Warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
FIMBRISTYLIS GLOBULOSA (Retz.) Kunth Enum. Pl. 2 (1887) 231; 
Safford 277. 
Scirpus globulosus Retz. Obs. 6 (1791) 19. 
Fimbristylis torresiana Gaudich. Bot. Freye. Voy. (1826) 418 (type 
from Guam). 
Fimbristylis globulosa Kunth var. torresiana C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. 6 (1893) 645. 
I have seen no Guam specimens of this species; India to Malaya and 
Polynesia. 
FIMBRISTYLIS MAXIMA K. Schum. Fl. Kais. Wilh. Land (1889) 24. 
McGregor 494, hills southeast of Piti, altitude about 300 meters. 
A species known only from Yap, Caroline Islands, and New Guinea. 
The Guam specimen very closely matches Volken’s Yap plant, but other- 
wise looks like a form of Fimbristylis schoenoides Vahl with ample inflo- 
rescences. 
FIMBRISTYLIS MILIACEA (Linn.) Vahl Enum. Pl. 2 (1806) 287; Saf- 
ford 277. 
Scirpus miliaceus Linn., Syst, ed. 10 (1759) 868. 
Fimbristylis littoralis Gaudich. Bot. Freye. Voy. (1826) 4138. 
McGregor 517, G. E. S. 12, Thompson 11, in meadows. 
Widely distributed in the warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
FIMBRISTYLIS SPATHACEA Roth Nov. Pl. Sp. (1821) 24; Safford 277. 
Fimbristylis glomerata Nees in Linnaea 9 (1834) 290. 
McGregor 374, G. E. S. 187. 
Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. . 
