354 CYPERACEE. [ Fiweristvus. 
keel a narrow sharp ridge excurrent as a small cusp, margins brown. 
Rachilla after the fall of the glumes marked with large shallow areoles 
the margins of which project as scales especially at the base of the 
areole. Style flattened, ciliate above the base. Nut + in. long, 
pale straw-color, polished, biconvex, broadly elliptic in outline,. 
margin thickened, faces with many fine longitudinal] strie, gynophore 
obpyramidal ~, in. long. 
Saharanpur (Royle). This species has not recently been collected in 
N. W. India. I have only seen three gatherings all of Royle. 
Distris. West Himalaya from the Simla district (Royle) to Assam, 
Chota Nagpur, Malaya, China. 
8. F. fuscinux, C. B. Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vi (1893), p. 638 ; 
Prain, Beng. Pl. 1154. 
Tufted, stems rigid, striate, 8-20 in. high, leaves 4-2 the length of the 
stem, rigid, coriaceous, tip obtuse, sheaths glabrous, brown, fibrous 
when old. Spikelets 4-4 in. long, narrowly ovoid, somewhat angular 
owing to the keeled glumes, in large compound umbels consisting 
of several rays and many pedicelled spikelets, bracts leaf-like with 
dilated bases. Glumes ;5 in. Jong, broadly ovate, boat-shaped, 
acute, mucronate, keel 3-nerved, brown almost glabrous. Rachilla 
after the fall of the glumes rather stout with deeply pitted areoles. 
Style not flattened, glabrous. Nut 35 in. long, suborbicular in ont- 
line, biconvex, microscopically lacunose, dark brown, finally black. 
Moradabad (Thomson) fide Clarke. Distriz. Sikkim Terai (Clarke !) 
9. F. ferruginea, Vahl, Enum. ii (1806), 291; F. B. I. vi, 638; 
Prain, Beng. Pl. 1154 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. wi, 881. 
Tuited 8-30 in. high, stems striate, leaves half as long as the stems or 
less, up to 7; in. wide, scabrid on the margins, sheaths more or less 
hairy with membranous margins. Spikelets in simple or sometimes 
compound umbels, usually 5-10 sometimes reduced to 1 or 3, 3-3} in, 
long, ellipsoid or subcylindric, bracts usually shorter than the in- 
florescence. Glumes 4 in. long, broadly ovate, concave, keel not 
prominent slightly excurrent, hoary in the upper half, brown. 
Rachilla after fall of the glumes rough from the ragged edges of the 
areoles. Style broad flattened hairy on the edges in the upper half, 
Nut +; in. long, pale brown, biconvex, suborbicular in outline, 
minutely stipitate and apiculate, microscopically multistriate. 
Saharanpur (Gollan), Merwara (Duthie 4916). Distris. Throughout 
the warmer parts of India, 8. E. Asia, Australia. 
