878 CXLVI. CYPERACE^. 



oblong. Nat rather more than -l- in. long, narrow, trigonous, fusiform, 

 tapering at both ends, ahnost beaked, chestnut-brown, granulate ; style 

 short, continuous with the nut ; stigmas 3, filiform, Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 625 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 285 ; Boeck. in Linnaa, v. 35 (1868) p. 434 ; 

 Benth. in Hook. Icon. PI. (1880) t. 1341 ; Nees, in Wight, Contrib. 

 (1834) p. 92; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 431 ; Prain, 

 Beng. PI. p. 1147. KyUinc/a ajperoides, Eoxb. PL Ind. v. 1 (1832) 

 p. 182 ; Grab. Cat. p. 232. 



KoNKAN : Law] 



There is but one specimen in Herb. Kew. marked as above, and while Woodrow 

 retains tlie plant in his list he does not indicate any locality where it is to be found. 

 — DiSTiuB. India (Sikkim, Assam, Bengal, Pegu, W. Peninsula); Tropical Africa, 

 Madagascar. 



4. FIMBRISTYLIS, VaM. 



Annual or perennial herbs ; roots fibrous or woody ; stolons ; stems 

 tufted. Leaves near the base of the stem, rarely reduced to sheaths, 

 narrowly linear or filiform. Spikelets terete, angular or compressed, 

 many-flowered, in a terminal umbellate or capitate inflorescence. 

 Glumes imbricate spirally round the rhachilla, or the lower glumes 

 distichous, glabrous (very rarely pubescent^, deciduous, the lower L-3 

 and sometimes the upper empty, the others 2-sexual ; hypogyuous 

 bristles 0. Stamens 1-3 ; filaments flat ; anthers linear, obtuse or acute, 

 or subulately tipped. Ovary obovoid, somewhat flattened or trigonous ; 

 style long, base more or less dilated, flattened or slender, glabrous, 

 pubescent or villous, wholly deciduous ; stigmas 2 in the flattened, 3 in 

 the trigonous ovaries, usually filiform and elongate. Fruit an obovoid 

 biconvex or trigonous (very rarely cylindric) nut. — Disteib. Nearly 

 all hot and warm regions, especially plentiful in S.E. Asia and N.E. 

 Australia ; species 125. 



Stigmas 2. 



Spikelets solitary, terminating the stem (rarely 2 or 

 3 in polythriciuides). 



Leaves or very short (see also F. ferrnginea) ; 



nut subcylindric, curved 1. F. tetragona. 



Leaves like the stem ; nut turbinate. 



Nut sessile, yellow dotted with white spots ... 2. F. polgthricioides. 

 Nut stipitate, snow-white with a brown patch 



on each face 3. F. schxnoides. 



Spikelets umbellate or capitate. 



Annuals {F. diphylla sometimes perennial). 

 Spikelets unibelhite. 



Nut with fi-9 broad trabeculate ribs; 



stauuMis 1-3 4. F. dichotoma. 



Nut smooth ; stamen 1 6. F. cBstivalis. 



Spikelets capitate 6. F. argentca. 



Perennials (/''. diphylla sometimes annual). 



Leaves or very "short ; stamens 2-3 7. F. ferrnginea. 



Leaves many. 



Glumes mucronate; stamens 1-3 8. F. diphylla. 



Ghiines with obtuse hyaline tips; stamens 



usually 2 9. F.spathacea. 



Stigmas 3. 



Spikelets terete or polygonal, none of the glumes 

 disticiious. 



Stems 0-24 in. long. 



