CXLVI. CYPERACE.E. 879 



Style hairy ; glumes acute, mucronate ; 



rhacliilla winged 10. F. quinquangularis. 



Style glabrous; glumes obtuse, not mucronate; 



rbachilla not winged 11. F. miliacea. 



Stems less than 6 in. long. 



Inflorescence in a terminal head ; stamens 3 ; 



nut globosely obovoid ; style y'j in. long 12. F. digitata. 



Inflorescence umbellate ; stamen 1 ; nut nar- 

 rowly obovoid; style ^V i"- l""g 13. F. Woodrowii. 



Spikelets compressed or trigonous ; all or the lower 

 glumes only distichous; bracts short in all. 



Spikelet 1 (rarely 2) 14. F. monostachya. 



Spikelets many, umbelhite. 



Leaves filiform 15. F. monticola. 



Leaves flat. 



Style glabrous Ifi. F. complanata. 



Style pubescent 17. F. juncijormis. 



1. Fimbristylis tetragona, R. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 226. 

 Perennial, glabrous; root-tibres stout; stems G-24 in. long, tufted, 

 slender, quadrangular, ribbed. Leaves 0, or the upper sheaths with an 

 erect lanceolate acuminate limb; sheaths usually brown. Spikelet 

 solitary, ^-f in. long, erect, ovoid-conic, terete, obtuse ; lowest glume 

 sometimes hardly bractiform, at others g as long as the spikelet, cori- 

 aceous, deciduous ; rhachilla thickly studded with deep tetragonal pits 

 with raised edges. Glumes closely imbricate, -l— g^ in. long, broadly 

 oblong or obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, concave, embracing 

 the nut, scarious, with a broad coriaceous central band. Stamens 2 ; 

 filaments flattened, dark-brown (nearly black) ; anthers narrowly linear, 

 muticous. Nut y^Tj in. long (not including the style-base or the stalk), 

 linear-oblong or subcylindric, narrow, tapering towards the base, slightly 

 curved, with a long slender stalk, trabeculate with slender parallel ribs 

 and minute cross bars, pale straw-colored (nearly white), deciduous 

 with the glume ; style villous, flattened, as long as the nut, with a large 

 subpersistent conical compressed base; stigmas 2, short. M. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 631 ; Trim. El. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 48 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (1901) p. 431; Prain, Beug. PI. p. 13 50. Fimhristylis cylindrocarpa , 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, v. 37 (1871) p. 7. — Flowers : Oct. 



Z>afeeW without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Konkan: Stocksl ; Sdhette, Jacque'mwit, 

 747! Kanaka: Lawl Dfxcan : Hirdosi, Woodrow; Mawal (Poona districts), 

 Woodrow. — DisTRiB. Throughout India (except the North-West) ; Ceylon, E. Asia, 

 Australia. 



2. Fimbristylis polythricioides(/S'cM'pMs), Vahl,Enum. v. 2 (1806) 

 p. 248. Perennial, glabrous ; root-tibres filiform ; stems 2-10 in. long, 

 filiform, leafy at the base, trigonous, striate. Leaves | as long as the stem 

 or longer, sleuder, wiry, acute, terete or trigonous, striate ; sheaths glabrous 

 or puberulous. Spikelet solitary, \ in. long, erect, oblong-ellipsoid, many- 

 flowered ; rhachilla stout, terete, deeply pitted. Glumes i in. long, linear- 

 oblong, cymbiform, subobtuse or acute, minutely apiculate, membranous, 

 with a narrow central band, pale straw-colored or almost white. Stamens 

 1-3 ; filaments flattened, membranous, white. Nut -^^ in. long, tur- 

 binate, sessile, much compressed, subtruncate at the apex, biconvex, with 

 acute margins, yellow, dotted with white spots ; style Jq in. long, 

 slightly hairy, scarcely dilated at the base, deciduous ; stigmas 2, as long 

 as the style. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 632 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 49; Woodr. 



