Fimbristylis. | CXLIH. CYPERACER, 301 
gira ner excom 4 to 5 Ec ems Ey: 
bran . 52, F. Neilsont, 
Serres IV. disti. —Spikelets collected in a single terminal head. 
Glumes obtuse, membranous. Involucral'bracts concealed 
under the head or rarely 1 prominent. Nut tuber- 
e . 53. F, capitata. 
Mines mnsronate, "Involueral bracts sisse 1 to 3 
Teer head. Nut smooth or . 54. F, Schultzii, 
Sect stylis. d venia uE ies thi style has fallen but articulate 
on the nut Am often at ler 
nich ^ to 10 ina d ee Leaf-sheaths 
at the orifice . 55. F, barbata, 
Spikelets i ina Bret compound or simple umbel. Leaf- 
sheaths not ciliate . 56. F. capillaris. 
SECTION 1. HELEOCHAROIDES. ^ ak oe terminal. Glum 
nina all round the rhachis, the lowest empty glume or Ve ees. d 
bract like the others or rarely produced into a point or lamina as long 
as the spikelet. Style-bulb normal 
l. F. acicularis, R. Br. Prod. 226.—Stems tufted, filiform, 3 to 6 
in. high, leafless exc cept the sheathing scales, but occa sionally inter- 
mixed with tufts of 2 or 8 filiform leaves. Spikelets solitary, white, erect, 
slightly compressed, 3 lines long or rather more, 1} line broa 
imbricate all round but not numerous, oblong, almost acute, cartila- 
gin nerveless pers the 1- or 3-nerved keel, the lowest 1 or 2 
glumes empty and Stamen 1. us; branches 2. 
ut bs Rightly compressed, marked with transverse raised wrinkles. 
€ ustralica ect innæa, xxxviii. 384. 
tralia, Land, F, Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 
Queensland. i Pena River, Banks dj Solander ; Dunk Island, a Gillierag. 
P. decumbens, Boockel. in Pei ta 1875, 710, from Lake Elphinstone, Amalia Dietrich, 
is probably the same speci 
S 2. F. acumina ata, Vahl; Kunth, Enum. ii. 221, var. setacea.— 
tems slender, dense ely tufte d, 3 to 6 in. high, leafless except the 
sheathing scales at the base but frequently intermixed with tuits of 2 
fumes, the lowest 1 or 2 glumes empty. Stamens 3. Sty ‘le slightly 
ed and ciliate ; branches 2. n obovate, qnie marked 
sverse raised wrinkles s.— F. acuminata, B. minor, Beckel. in Linnza, 
Tui 4; P setacea, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 239. 
d. Pen. Bay, F. Mueller, Bailey; Fitzroy River, O Shanesy ; 
^ Bay, Dallachy 
e typical F, ta has larger broader spikelets, the glumes more promi- 
thew, keeled. It germinat Pod Vk Lidis; Ce ae and the Malayan Archipelago, 
ustralian variety is at least in the kaipa 
