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13. F. WoodrOWii, C'A-g. 2-5 inches, often tufted. Umbels sub- 

 compound, but contracted. Spikelets small, acute, mucronate ; 

 nut pale, faintly ribbed and trabeculate. 



On the ghats at Khandala and Igatpuri. (Pandemic). 



14. F. tenera F(fr. oxylepiS, OA^e. 4-8 inches. Spikelets as last 

 species, but rather larger. Nut very round, trigonous, white to 

 yellowish or very often grey, glistening as though varnished, pro- 

 minently irregularly tuberculate. 



Throughout the Presidency, not uncommon (Indian). This must be the 

 species described by Cooke under F. monticola, Steud. Apparently he 

 knew it only from one specimen of Woodrow's. Since then much has been 

 collected. 1 have examined a mass of material from places as far removed 

 from one another as Ahmedabad, Khandesh, Kolaba, Igatpuri, Khandala 

 and Badarai, especially a large number of gatherings by Fr. Blatter and 

 Mr. Hallberg and have examined the nuts of all and find them as described. 

 The Bombay specimens have all glabrous (glabrate, Clarke) glumes. On 

 the other hand most of the specimens coUectf^d by Fr. Blatter and Mr. 

 Hallberg in the Kajputana desert have softly puberulous glumes. This is 

 F. tenem type, and would probably be found in the Thar and Parkar District 

 of Sind. F. monticola is apparently a South Indian and especially South 

 Indian mountain form of the same species. 



15. F. junciformis, Ktmth. Glabrous. Rhizome woody, creeping. 

 Stems 4-12 inches long, stiff, arising from amidst or in front of 

 the short, densely crowded, flat, spreading or recurved leaves, 

 which have an obtusely triangular while apex. Umbel open or 

 contracted, usually compound. Spikelets clustered, smallish, usually 

 obtuse, dark or reddish brown. Styles and anthers v. conspicuous 

 in time of flowering. Nut obovoid, apiculate, from white to light 

 brown, smooth or sub-verrucose, apparently velate (i.e., outermost 

 cells withering and peeling off"). 



A stift', wiry sedge of dry grasslands, forming one of the principal con- 

 stituents of the surface vegetation on the most barren gravelly uplands in 

 the South Carnatic, and thence spreading into forest clearings. Through- 

 out the Presidency but apparently not very common except in the south. 

 This may, however, be due to its short flowering season, i.e., the very early 

 part of the rains. (India, Madagascar, Philippines). 



IC. F. miliaCGa, Vald. 6-30 inches high, stem triquetrous, 

 often with very compressed base and subdistichous leaves. In- 

 florescence a decompound umbel. Spikelets small, obtuse, usually 

 sub-globose. Glumes obtuse or subacute. Nut white or yellow, 

 tuberculate and microscopically transversely striolate. 



A gregarious sedge of damp places and rice-fields. Throughout the 

 Presidency, v. common (all warm regions). 



17. F. quinquangularis, Vakl. Resembling the last species, 

 but usually rather taller. Stem 4-5 angled. Spikelets longer 

 and more acute. Glumes acute or sub-obtuse. Nut as the last. 



The very same habitats and distribution as the last species and very 

 closely allied to it. 



