438 CYPERACE^. 



margins, otherwise glabrous. Spikelets in an irregular 

 terminal compound umbel, each single umbel consisting 

 of a central sessile spikelet and two or three others on 

 slender stalks of Ye inch, from the axils of Ys inch acu- 

 minate bracts. Glumes acuminate or shortly awned^ 

 obscurely five-nerved: margins hyaline. Nut with 

 transverse marking. 



Pulneys : on the downs, on dry slopes, etc., common. Bourne 

 1260, 1469. 



Fimbristylis uliginosa Steud. ; F.B.I. vi 648, VIII 50. 

 Plants tufted, clothed at the base with dead sheaths. 

 Leaves I to 3 inches, very slender and hair-like ; sheaths 

 below striate. Stems 4 to 8 inches, slender. Spikelets 

 many tufted at the top, sessile or some stalked; or 

 reduced to one only ; with one or two slender leafy bracts. 

 Glumes aristate or mucronate, with hyaline margin. 

 Style three-fid. t. 281. 



Nilgiris : very common on the open downs. Fyson 2886 

 2926. Rendered very conspicuous in the early morning by the 

 dew glistening on the white styles. Not known elsewhere. 



Fimbristylis cypcroides Br. ; var cinnamometorum : 

 F.BJ. vi 650, VIII 56. Stems tufted, on a short rhizome, 

 very slender but thickened at the base by the sheathing 

 bases of the leaves. Leaves several, very slender. 

 Spikelets small, 1/6 by 1/20 inch irregularly umbelled in 

 spreading panicles. Glumes few, progressively longer 

 from the very small outer imbricate empty lowest ones to 

 the distichous middle two to four which are fertile, and 

 the uppermost three to six which have stamens or 

 nothing. Style long. Nut round-trigonal, with seven to 

 eleven ribs on each face. 



Pulneys : on the downs above Kodaikanal falls, and below to 

 Silver Cascade, and on the plains. Bourne 3087. 



Gen. Dist. North Australia, Philippines, Caroline islands. 



