Fimbristylis.| CXLIII. CYPERACEZ. 308 
in the narrow-spiked form they resemble those of F. punctata, but have not the E 
mata obtuse points to the glumes, and the style-branches appear to be alwa; 
Vahl; Kunth, Enum. ii. 221.— Stems tufted, intres ei 
npe or perhaps sometimes nearly smooth. —Beeckel. in Linnea, xxxvii. 
; R. Br. Prod. 226; F. Muell. Primi viii. 274. 
N. Australia. Islands of w^ Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brow 
ensland. Sandy Cape, R. Brown; Brisbane River, E Mueller ; Bailey ; 
Dawson River, F. Mueller. 
N New England, C. Stuart. 
Extends over East India and the Malayan Archipelago to South China. 
7. F. pauciflora, R. Br. Prod. 225. — Stems densely tufted, 
filiform, 3 to 6 in. high or rarely more. Leaves few and filiform, or all 
reduced to sheathing scales with scarcely any lamina. Spikelets 
eredi , erect, very narrow-oblong, nearly white, about 2 lines long 
line broad. Glumes few but imbricate all round and ve 
deciduous, cartilaginous, acute, keeled, the sides veinless, the 2 ou 
ae and more acuminate with the keel more or less distinctly 
B-nerved. Stamen usually 1. Style not at all or scarcely ciliate; 
branches 3, rarely Nut = oid-globular, 3-ribbed, tuberculate or 
almost muricate,— F. filiformis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 221; Bockel. in 
xxxvi. 23; F. visite Benth. in Hook. Lo nd. Journ. ii 
239. 
we ia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; near M'Adam 
8e, F. Mueller ; Regent's and Hunter's Rivers, 4. me etel 
Queens feusland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
NES in the Malayan Archipelago and peninsula. The plant closely resembles 
d var. setacea of F, acuminata, but the spikelets are narrower and the -— 
3 nuts quite differe: i Brow n describes the style as ec ciq Kunth 
is ii. or body 2 2-fi in the specimens I have examined I bave found Xt 
Sbranched, but I Lo A to belong to the same species. 
S. F. cardiocarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 194.—Stems tufted and 
‘lender but rigid, 1 ft. high or more. Leaves much shorter, subulate, 
