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14. FimbristyliS monostachya, Hassl: PI. Jav. Bar. (1848) 

 p. 61. Densely tufted and leafy ; root-fibres slender. Stems 6-12 in. 

 long, very slender or filiform, striate. Leaves crowded on the swollen 

 base of the stem, filiform or nearly so, about ^ as long as the stem, 

 acute or acuminate ; sheaths short, with scarious margins. Spikelets 

 solitary (rarely 2) on the stem, variable in size, |— | by ^-^ in., com- 

 pressed, ovate, acute, shining, pale straw-colored, the 2 lower glumes 

 empty and longer than the others, cuspidate ; rhachilla slender with 

 persistent wings. Glumes loosely imbricate, subdistichous, much- 

 keeled, ovate, acute, cuspidate, coriaceous. Stamens 3 ; anthers Jg in. 

 long, subacute, yellow. Nut J^ in. long with a long stalk, globosely 

 piriform, narrowed into the stout stipes, trigonous with rather acute 

 angles, tuberculate on the 3 faces, with a short pyramidal apex, straw- 

 colored, glabrous ; style ^ in. long, stout, pubescent all over and on the 

 conical base ; stigmas 3, much shorter than the style. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 649 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 59 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 432; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1150. Ahildgaardia mono- 

 stachya, Vahl, Euum. v. 2 (1806) p. 296 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 286 ; Boeck. 

 in Li'nnsea, v. 37 (1871) p. 53.— Flowers : July. 



Deccan : Poona, Jizc^-Mcwo??^, 411 ! S.M. Country: 'B&di&m\, Woodr ow. — Distrib. 

 Throughout the warmer parts of India ; Ceylon, most warm countries. 



15. Fimbristylis monticola) Hochst. ex Steiid. Sj/n. PL Cyp. 

 (1855) p. 111. A very slender plant ; root-fibres filiform ; stems 

 3-12 in. or more long, filiform, obtusely trigonous, striate, flexuous. 

 Leaves many at the base of the stem, shorter than or sometimes nearly 

 equaUing the stem, filiform, acute, with distantly scabrid margins ; 

 sheaths short, membranous. Umbel subsimple or subcompouud ; rays 

 2-4 with 1 or 2 spikelets on each, \-^ in. long, filiform, spreading or 

 recurved ; bracts very short, setiform. Spikelets \-^ in, long, elliptic- 

 oblong, obtuse or acute, compressed, dark-brown ; lowest glumes very 

 small, deciduous ; rhachilla with deep pits with hyaline margins. 

 Glumes laxly subdistichously imbricate, g in. long, triangularly o\ate, 

 apiculate, concave, coriaceous, with hyaline margins ; back 3-nerved ; 

 keel conspicuous. Stamens 3; anthers with an acute tip. Nut stipi- 

 fate, -^ in. long, globosely obovoid, obtusely trigonous, minutely tuber- 

 culate^ yellow or brown ; style -Jg- in. long, with bulbous base, more 

 or less pubescent all over ; stigmas 3, as long as the style. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 6, p. 642 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 60 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 431.— Flowers : Aug. 



KoNKAN : Shelarvadi (Bhore Ghat), Woodrow, 10 ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; 

 OeyloD. 



16. Fimbristylis complanata, LinJc, Hart. Berol. v. 1 (1827) 

 p. 292. Glabrous ; rhizome very short, hard, creeping ; root-fibres wiry ; 

 stems 8-24 in. long, much flattened near the top, 2-edged, ^- in. broad, 

 deeply grooved and ribbed, quite smooth. Leaves crowded at the base 

 of the stem and shorter than it, 3-8 by \-\ in., coriaceous, flat, linear, 

 suddenly narrowed at the tip, obtuse or subacute, with scaberulous 

 margins ; sheaths coriaceous with scarious margins. Umbels decom- 

 pound, effuse, 1-3 in. broad, with few or many flattened rays, loosely 

 corymbosely branched, the branches bearing small shortly pedicellate 



