436 CYPERACE^. 



rays of M to 2 inches, these again in stalked umbels, 



crowded at the top of the stem in a compound umbel of 



8 to 24 inches. Bracts of umbels leaf-like, sometimes 



2 feet long : stalks I to 8 inches. Glumes 1/30 inch, 



boat-shaped, ultimately light brown. 



Nilgiris : Pykara, etc., flowering winter months. Fyson 

 3111. Pulneys : Neutral Saddle, 5,500 feet: not Kodaikanal. 

 Bourne 1253, 142 1, 



Gen. Dist. From the Khasi hills southwards to Ceylon. 



EL^OCHARIS. F.B.I. 172 VII. 



Stems leafless, each ending in a brown oblong spike- 

 let of many spirally arranged glumes, characterised by 

 the base of the style being thickened but also apparently 

 jointed just above the nut, and by the hypogynous 

 bristles round the ovary. 



Species over 100 in all parts of the world. 



Elaeocharis congesta Don ; F.B.L vi 630,VII 15. Stems 

 tufted 4 to 8 inches or more : sheaths crimson at the 

 base. Spikelets % to ^3 inch, subtended usually by 

 a leafy bract; occasionally with a short branch just 

 below. Flowers many. Ovary three-angled. Style 

 three-fid, with swollen persistent base. Nut quite 

 smooth, t. 279. 



On the Nilgiri downs. Fyson 2889. 



Gen. Dist, Lower hills of India and Kashmir, Nilgiris, Ceylon. 

 Pulneys 5,000 feet. 



FIMBRISTYLIS. f.b.i. 172 viii. 



Spikelets brown of many imbricating glumes, either 

 solitary or in compound umbels at the end of the slender 

 scape. Leaves all from the base, not on the stem. 

 Flowers without bristles, style enlarged at the base, and 

 deciduous by a joint from the nut, not leaving the base 

 on it. Outer surface of nut often with the appearance 



