298 CXLIII. CYPERACEJE. 
4. FIMBRISTYLIS, Vah. 
(Trichelostylis and Oncostylis, Nees.) 
Spikelets solitary capitate or irregularly umbellate, with several 
usually many flowers, all her maphrodite or rarely the upper ira 
female only. Glumes SER all round the rhachis or rarely 
distichous, the lowest 1 or 2 rarely 3 or 4 empty. No hypogynous 
bristles. Stamens 3,2 or 1. Style flattened and ciliate or went 
an 
ing off with the style, or Fn Oncostylis) vemaining persistent on 
ovary long ee the style has fallen away ; stigmatie branches 2 0r 9» 
filiform. Nut obovoid globular or more or less flattened E 
vex, often ub. contracted at the base.—Tufted annuals or peren? : 
never so large as the larger Scirpi. Leaves narrow, radical or at, id 
base of the stem, sometimes reduced to membranous or rahe nthe 
sheathing scales. Inflorescence terminal. Involucral bracts under ce 
cipal rays usually short, rarely 2 or 8 exceeding the inflorese uad 
is id solitary on the stem or on the rays or rarely clustered, p 
r dark brown or almost white, never black. : 
The genus extends all round the world, ns chiefly in tropical or py oa 
regions, and a larger proportion is s Australian than in the case of ntn herd c or 
charis, Of fifty Australian species, Dt ifie are either r sd 
have not yet been identified with extra-Australian ones, jio pical 
however very closely allied to corresponding Asiatic species, sixteen, of them are 
Asiatie species, the majority of which extend into Afri d seven 
also 
also in TEEN the remaining one species is also in New Zealand, and, fgit by 
in South me three or four of the endemic dores are as yet 
so few ccm that they may require further confirmation al 
3 : jcate 
seri I. Eeleocharoides.—Spikelet solitary, terminal, — Glumes imbriea 
round, 
Nut biconvex, with transverse raised lines or wrinkles. 
o lower amen empty. 
intermixed with a very few 
Stamen 1. vo oc pande 
Stamens 3. Aisle dliate c Pt ee 
Frans us, filiform. Style-branches3 . . 3. F. panete 
use. 
ut 4 t4 lower gh slums empty, perigee vt dens 4. F, rhyticary " : 
es filiform, not BOE SD . diame & d — 
Spiel nodding/ usally brown / .0- -o( n. F. nutans. 
3-angled or biconvex, smooth striate granular or 
gl rculate, Style-branches 3 or caia mn 2. 
Spikelet oblong, lanceolate. 
let about à line broad. ves Dé or none. rd. 
Nut tuberculate .OT. Ge pamelor 
ice volucral bract. 
Spikelet_ ie 14 lines broad. Leaves ? 
No involucral bract. * Nur miputly tates. g. F. cardiooarp®: 
Spikelets about 1 line Leaves setaceous. ska. 
Involucral bract vet as long as thospikelet . 9. P. lee 
