FimsrisTYLIs. | CYPERACES. 355 
10. F. monostachya, Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. (1848), 61; F. B. I. 
vi, 649 ; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1152 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii, 885 ; Collett, 
Fl. Siml. 563. 
Densely tufted, stems thickened at the base, 3-16 in. high, slender or 
filiform, striate, leaves about half as long as the stem or more, almost 
filiform, sheaths smooth with membranous margins. Spikelets 4-4 
in. long, ovoid, acute, solitary supported at the base by a bract 
which is usually leaf-like, shorter than the spikelet, hispid on the 
margins and with a small dilated base, sometimes the bract is more 
glume-like, this is followed by 2 or 3 bracts or empty glumes which 
become progressively more glume-like. Glumes sub-distichous ¢ in. 
long, ovate, boat-shaped, strongly keeled, cuspidate, coriaceous, 
straw-colored. Rachilla after the fall of the glumes with conspicu- 
ous red-dotted scales (the margins of the glumes on either side being 
persistent). Style broad, flattened, hairy on the edge, base large, 
conical. Nut ,; in. long, pear-shaped, trigonous, minutely tubercled 
except on the narrowed base and short pyramidal apex, pale straw- 
colored. 
Saharanpur. [istris. Throughout the warmer parts of India and 
most warm countries. ; 
11. F. tenera, Rem. & Schult. Syst. ti, Mant. (1824), 57; F. B. 
Z. vi, 642; Prain, Beng. Pi, 1154, 
Annual tufted stems slender 6-12 in. high, leaves up to half the length 
of the stem \; in. wide, glabrous, often very much reduced, sheaths 
glabrous, rather thin with hyaline margins. Spikelets +-} in. long 
narrowly ovoid or subcylindriec in lax subcompound umbels consist- 
ing of a sessile spikelet, 2 or 3 spikelets on pedicels of various lengths 
and 2 or 3 rays which usually bear one sessile and one or two pedi- 
celled spikelets, bracts leaf-like with dilated bases, shorter than the 
rays. Glumes yz in. long broadly ovate, acuminate, with an auricle 
on either side, somewhat boat-shaped, 3-nerved the keel prominent, 
slightly excurrent, brown, margin hyaline. Rachilla after the fall of 
the glumes rather stout, the areoles large depressed with prominent 
margins. Style glabrous, base swollen, stigmas 3. Nut yy in. long 
trigonous-obovoid, dirty white, minutely verrucose. 
Dehra Dun (Brown) Pilibhit, Shikohabad (Duthie 6510), Agra (Jame- 
son). Distris.: Punjab to Bengal and Madras (var. ozylepis, 
Clarke). Other varieties in Tropical Africa and Malaya. 
