SS6 CXLTI. CTPEKACE.?:. 



brown spikelets ; bracts | as long as the umbel, the largest leaf-like, 

 erect, the others subulate. Spikelets ^-\ by yj— t^ in., ovoid-oblong, 

 tew -flowered, brown, with more or less disticbously arranged glumes, 

 the lowest glume empty. Glumes j^, in. long, ovate, the keel prolonged 

 into a long mucro; sides brown, the margins not hyaline; keel deep, 

 acute. Stamens 3 ; anthers long, obtuse. Nut ^ in. long, obovoid, 

 stipitate, obtusely trigonous, pale straw-colored or nearly white, slightly 

 umbonate, minutely warted ; style longer than the nut with a conical 

 base, slender, glabrous; stigmas 3, long. PI. B. I. v. 6, p. 646; Trim. 

 Fl. Ceyl. V. 5, p. 63; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 431 ; 

 Brain, Beng. PI. p. 1152. Scirjms comjphinatus, Eetz. Obs. fasc. 5 

 (1 789) p. 14 ; Grab. Cat. p. 233. 



Deccan : near Chattersinghi(Pooiia districts), ^a««fZe I Sind ; Pinwilll — Distrib. 

 India (Mussooree, Saliaranpur, Assam, Birma, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Indo-China, 

 Africa, Oceania. 



Var. microcan/a, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 6 (1893) 

 p. 046 (by misprint microcarjm , an error which Mr. Clarke has corrected 

 on the sheets in Herb. Kew.). Stems slender, hardly flattened under 

 tlie umbel. Spikelets more slender. Nut very small, velate (i. <?., tbe 

 outermost cells withering and peeling otT). AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 13 (1901) p. 431. Fimhristylis microcarya (sp.), F. Muell. 

 Fragm. Phvt. Austral, v. 1 (1858-59) p. 200 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, v. 7 

 (1878) p. 316. 



Deccan : water-holes at Hewra, Dalzell I ; Poona, Woodrow. 



17. Fimbristylis junciformis, Kunth, Enum. v. 2 (1837) p. 239. 

 Glabrous ; rhizome \\ oody, short or creeping ; root-fibres stout, wiry ; 

 stems 4-18 in. long, tutted, rigid, 4-5-angled or compressed above, 

 deeply striate. Leaves crowded round the base of the stems and very 

 much shorter than them, yV~i ^"- broad, spreading and recurved, flat, 

 coriaceous, with a triangular acute tip and scaberulous margins ; sheaths 

 short, coriaceous. Umbel compound, with few slender rays 1-3 in. 

 long, bearing distant or clustered small chestnut-brown spikelets ; 

 bracts 2-4, much shorter than the umbel, erect, rigid, acute. Spikelets 

 j.-i by -j^-jj- in., the 2 lowest glumes distichous, the lowest empty ; 

 rbachilla stout, with caducous wings. Glumes J^ in. long, ovate, 

 shortly mucronate, with slender keel and pale hyaline margins. Sta- 

 mens 3; anthers long, acuminate. Nut -^ i"- '"'ig; very shortly 

 stipitate, obovoid, trigonous, obscurely ribbed and witli faint vein-like 

 markings, pale straw-colored or nearly white, minutely umbonate ; 

 style -^t; in. long \\\i\\ conical base, pubescent above ; stigmas 3, about 

 as long as the style. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 647 ; Boeck. in Linnaea, v. 37 

 (1871) p. 49; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 432; 

 Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1152. — Flowers t Nov. 



Deccan: Knrli, Woodrow. SiNn : I'imi'ilV. — Disteub. Tlirouf^huiit India; Ceylon, 

 Madagnsr-nr, I'liilippinee. 



5. STENOPHYLLUS, Kafin. 



Annual herbs; stt'ins sh'ndcr, Icaty at 1 he base only. Leaves very 

 narrow, filiform or capillary. Spikelets small, croxAcicd in a terminal 

 head or utnbellate ; bracts short. Glumes few or mai:y, imbricate all 



