FIMBRISTYLIS. | CYPERACE#., 349 
Stems rush-like, 1-3 ft. high, terete, densely tufted, 3; in. diam. or 
rather more (up to ¢ in. when dried and pressed flat) longitudinally 
striate and distantly transversely septate when dry, sheaths mem- 
branous, soon torn and somewhat fibrous. Spikelets 3-14 in. long, 
about the same diameter as the stem, pale straw color, supported 
at the base by an amplexicaul bract appearing continuous with the 
stem, rachilla stout angled. Glumes closely imbricate, } in. long, 
persistent, oblong, obtuse with a narrow scarious margin, back 
striate, keel not prominent. JBrisiles 7, about as long as the nut, 
retrorsely scabrid, Nut yg in. long, light yellowish-brown, tipped 
by the persistent conical style base which is about % as long as the 
nut, style very long, stigmas 2-3. 
Moradabad (Thomson). DuisrriB.: tropics of the old world. 
8. FIMBRISTYLIS, Vahl.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 630, 
Annual or perennial tufted herbs, roots fibrous or woody, stolons 
O. Leaves near the base of the stem. Inflorescence terminal.,. 
umbellate or corymbose or of few or one spikelet. Glumes spirally 
imbricate or the lower distichous or subdistichous, the lower 1-3: 
and sometimes the upper empty, hypogynous bristles O. Stamens. 
1-3, filaments flattened. Style long, usually flattened and more or 
less villous on the edges, base dilated, 2 or 3 fid. Nut obovoid,. 
biconvex or trigonous, with a more or less inconspicuous gyno~ 
phore. Species about 125 in all warm regions. 
Stigmas 2, nut biconvex. 
Spikelets solitary or 2-3. 
Glumes glabrous, 
Spikelets 3-4 in. long, glumes ¢ in. long, 
nut ;’5 in. long eesti , ; 
Spikelets 4-4 in. long, glumes ; in. 
long, nut x; in. long . ; 
l. F. schenoides. 
2. F. diphylla var, 
annua. 
Glumes hoary : thd ae ® ; . 9. F. ferruginea 
Spikelets numerous. 
Glumes glabrous. 
Nut with a minute gynophore or with 
none, 
Spikelets not exceeding } in. nut not 
exceeding 7, in. 
