314 CXLII. CYPERACER. [ Fimbristylis. 
clada) reduced to a single spikelet. Glumes imbricate all round the 
rhachis. Style-bulb normal; branches 3 (except rarely in the 
Glomerate). Nut various. 
Serres I. Orreosracmyæ.—Spikelets few, occasionally solitary. 
35. F. spiralis, R. Br. Prod. 226.— Apparently annual. Stems 
filiform, 2 to 3 in. high. Leaves as long, numerous, — send 
ort T€ 
N. Australia. Arnhem Bay, R. Brown, 
36. F. subaristata, Benth—Apparently annual, glabrous. pr 
slender, tufted, 3 to 4 in. high. s much shorter, numerous, 
narrow-linear, spreading. Umbel simple, of few spreadin 
y : 
brown, 4 to 6 lines long, 13 to 2 lines diameter bris 
nd, | late or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate-acute, the sides 
long, very thinly membranous almost scarious and hyaline oD" 9 
t l prominent and sometimes a faint nerve on each side 77 uy 
lower ones shorter and e ty and often t ppermost e pty more 
o Shanesy. D 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, glume 
spills are something lke those of F. androgyna, but y2 or 3, the 
acuminate and the style branches 3. 
