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haiiy and squan-ose with the spreading; tips of the glumes, usually in dense clusters, 

 formiug an irregular terminal narrow panicle. 



F. TTiiBELLATA, Rottl). Kamorta (K.). Ceylon. India. 



F. 'jJentmjona, "W. et A. 

 F. GLOiiKiMTA, Lam. S. China. Asia. Africa. Australia. 



F. IMthoelUi, Nees. 



IsoLEns, R. Broicne. 



Characters of Scirjtiis, except there are no liypogynous scales. 



I. BAEBATA, Br. 8. Chuia. Asia. Africa. Australia. 



Scirpus nwnander and antardiciis, Eoxb. 

 I. sp. Kamorta (K.). 



I. (SciEPUs) surisA, L. S. China. India. Ceylon. 



FllIBRISTTLIS, VaJtl. 



Sj)/h'Ief.i several-flowered, the glumes imbricate all round, only 1 or 2 of the 

 lowest empty. Flo ■/ ers liertuaphrodite, without hypogynous scales or bristles. 

 Sfdi/teiis 3, or fewer. Sti/h 2- or 3-cleft, usually thickened at the base, and 

 articulate on the nut below the bulb. Leaves usually radical, or sheathing the stem 

 at its base, sometimes all reduced to sheaths. Spikektu solitary on the scape, or 

 more frequently on the rays of a simple or compound umbel, one always sessile, 

 or rarely clustered in a single head, or on the rays of the umbel. 



F. ACUMINATA. Nipal. S. China. Java. 



F. setdcea, Benth. 

 F. PODOCARPA, Necs. India. S. China. 



F. FERKrciiNEA, Vahl. S. China. India. 



F. arcensis, Vahl. 

 F. sauAEEOsA, Vahl. 8. China. India. 



F. j!STivALis, Vald. Burma (M.). S. China. 



F. WiuHTiANA, Xees. Bengal. S. China. 



F.J line if or mis, Munr. (not Nees). 

 F. MiLiACEA, Vahl. Kamorta (K.). Ceylon. India. 



/''. {Scirpits) fefrac/o?iHs, Eoxb. 

 F. coMPLANATA, Link. Kamorta (K.). Ceylon. S. China. 



F. iiipnrELA, Vahl. Kamorta (K.). Ceylon. S. China. 



F. tomentosa, Vahl. 



F. Hoe/eiu'diia, var. « et /3, Nccs. 



F. communis, Kth. 

 F. ovALis, Nees. Kamorta (K.). Ceylon. 



There are two forms, a glabj'ous and a densely villous one (Kurz). 



F. NUTANS, Vahl. Kamorta (K.). Ceylon. Silhet. 



F. GLOBULOSA, TTall. Kamorta ( Fv.). Ceylon. 



F. scHCENOiDEs, Vahl. India. Ceylon. S. China. 



AxosroEuii. 

 A. CEPHALOTis, Vahl. Kicobars (K.). 



Abildgaaedia, VirJil. 

 Characters and habit of Fimhristylis, only differs in having distichous glumes. 



A. MONosTACUTA, Vahl. India. S. China. Ceylon. 



A. Rotthoeiliaita, Nees. 

 A. KEAGEosTis, Vahl. Khasi Hills. S. China. Ceylon. 



Fimbristi/iis qiiiiiquaiifiularis, Munr. 

 A. FuscA, Nees. ' Nipal. Ceylon. S. China. 



A. cinnamomctorum, Thwaites. 



