"280 -TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Scinpus, - 
that species is. described by Vahl as having three stamina: (see. 
Finbristylis dichotoma, — ii. p. 287,) consequently they must 
be different.* 
$8. S. astivalis. Retz. Obs. iv. 12. 
Spikes rounded, subsquarrose ; involucre six-leaved, longer than 
the compound umbel ; scales monandrous. F ail. Linum, li, 988. 
(under Fimbristylis.) 
I received this elegant little grass from Nepala where it grows in 
low fields during the rainy season. ; 
Obs. My specimens agree perfectly with the descriptions quoted - 
above. 'They are three inches high; spikes oblong, obtuse, mea- 
"suring about three lines in length, with villous scales which end in 
along, recurved, scabrous awn as in S. squarrosus.. Ovarium den- 
ticular, obovate, smooth, shining, pearl-coloured, covered almost to 
its base with numerous loosely adhering, white, flat fascicles of villi, 
which proceed like rays from the enlarged base of the smooth, bifid 
style, and serve to keep the latter attached to the seed. This is? - 
second instance of a singular structure, observed by the immortal au- 
thor of the Prodromus flore nove hollandie, in another species of 
Fimbristylis, (vol. i. p. 925).—N. W. 
: ł 
39. S. diphyllus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd.i. 301. -— 
... Culms erect, from one to two feet high, semi-culumnar. Umbel 
decompound; scales obtuse, diandrous. Seeds roundish, obcordate, | 
smooth. - a ee 
` Fimbristylis diphylla. Vahl. uai ii. 249. 
Delights i in a rich wet soil. | 
Root fibrous—Culms erect aves dii naked, from one to two. 
feet high, sometimes a little compressed .— Leaves chiefly radical, 
half the length of the culm, rigid.—Umbel terminal, decompound. 
ES ee twoor four-leaved, the larger about the length of the um- 
* Ihave received specimens of this grass, which undoubtedly is a Fimbristylis 
from Nepala; itis intermediate between F. dichotoma and glauca, Vahl, differing from 
both en monandrous.—N. W. 
