NovemBer 26, 1910] TAREE New CYPERACEAE 855 
Fimbristylum utilis Elm. n. sp. 
Tall, rank tufts or tussocks; stems green, numerous, erect, 
smooth and shining, terete, 1 to 2 m. high; roots numerous; 
glabrous, filiform. Leaf sheaths 2 to 3, subinflated, shining, 
the basal sheaths open and brown margined, the upper ones 
only with oblique glabrous throats but otherwise united and 
2dm.long. Inflorescence and infrutescence 5 cm. long, almost 
as wide; the branches once or twice branched, subtended 
by involucral bracts; bracts at most 1 cm. long, stout, acuminate- 
ly tapering, hyaline margined, those subtending the upper 
much shorter; heads sessile or upon 6 mm. long pedicels, 
short ellipsoid, 4 mm. long; empty glumes 1.5 mm. long, 
glabrous, brown, keeled toward the apex, with hyaline sides 
or margins; bracts short, persistent, hyaline, more or less 
united about the base; seed subtended by 2 lateral bris- 
tles which equal the style, broadly obovoid, 0.75 mm. 
long, finely verrucose, dorso-ventrally flattened, light straw 
brown; style articulate at the base, the basal one third thicken- 
ed, fully 1 mm. long, glabrous; stigma 2, divergently spreading, 
as long if not longer than the style. 
Type specimen 12571, A. D. E. Elmer, Basay, Island 
of Samar, June, 1910. 
In low compact black soil of marshes, and is reported 
to form dense growths. The local Visayan call it “‘Tigog’’ or 
""Tikog," and its stems are extensively used in mat weaving. 
Only critically distinguished from F. globulosa (Retz.) Kth., 
most notably in the two not three stigmas, and seeds with 2 
rather than with 8 ridges. 
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