FIMBRISTYLIS. | CYPERACES. 353 
spikelet, several spikelets on pedicels of various lengths and a few 
rays the latter bearing a sessile spikelet and 1-3 pedicelled spikelets, 
bracts several, leaf-like the longest exceeding the rays. Glumes 
ys in. long including the awn, blade broadly oblong, pale brown, 
keel excurrent as a curved awn about as long as the blade. Rachilla - 
after the fall of the glumes rather slender, not deeply pitted. Siyle 
slender minutely hairy below the bifurcation, base slightly swollen 
and bearing many silky hairs which hang down over the nut and 
are }-} of its length. Nut 5 in. long, obovoid, compressed, smooth 
minutely stipitate, straw-colored. 
Moradabad (Thomson). Distris. Northern India from Kashmir to 
Assam and Burma and all warm regions. 
6. F. rigidula, Nees in Wight Contrib. (1834) 99; F. B. I. vi, 
640; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1153 ; Collett, Fl. Siml. 561. 
Perennial, stems bulbously thickened at the base clothed with the 
bases of the leaf-sheaths which tend to break up into separate fibres, 
flowering stems 6-18 in. high, striate, leaves half the length of the 
stem or much shorter, up to +5 in. wide, not narrowing upwards 
slightly scabrid on the margins, sheaths glabrous or nearly so with 
broad membranous margins. Spikelets in simple or somewhat com- 
pound umbels $-} in. long, ellipsoid or subcylindric, bracts usually 
very much shorter than the rays sometimes almost as long. Glumes 
4 in. long, concave, broadly ovate, dark brown in the upper half, 
keel not prominent slightly excurrent in the lower glumes. Rachilla 
after the fall of the glumes somewhat rough and pitted. Style hairy 
on the edges in the upper portion. Nut 7 in long, brown or grey, 
biconvex, broadly obovate-obtuse in outline, minutely stipitate, very 
obscurely apiculate, minutely lacunose and reticulate. 
Saharanpur (Royle) Kheri (Imayat). Distrre. Himalaya ascending 
to 6,000 ft. from Simla eastward and neighbouring plains, East 
Asia. 
7. F. podocarpa, Nees in Wight Contrib, (1834) 98 (ex parte) ; 
F. B. I. vi, 638; Prain, Beng, Pl. 115? 
Tufted 8-16 in. high, stems striate, slender, leaves about half as long 
as the stems, 7;-y; in. wide, scabrid on the .margins, sheaths more 
or less hairy with narrow membranous margins. Spikelets in simple 
or compound umbels, the umbel or brancnes uf compound umbels 
with usually 3-5 spikelets, } in. long, ovoid, primary bracts leaf- 
like exceeding the inflorescence. Glumes } in. long, boat-shaped. 
