356 CYPERACEZ. [ FIMBRISTYLIs. 
12. F, quinquangularis Kunth. Enum. ii (1837), 229; F. B. I. 
vi, 644 ; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1154 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ti, 883 ; Collett, 
Fl. Siml. 561. 
Annual tufted, stems 1-2 ft. high, angular, striate, leaves longer or 
shorter than the stem, up to +, in. wide, scabrid on the margins. 
and midrib beneath, sheaths glabrous with broad membranous. 
margins. Spikelets 4-4 in. long, ellipsoid or narrowly ovoid, sub- 
acute, very numerous in decompound umbels, rays very slender, 
pedicels filiform, bracts very narrow,” leaf-like, shorter than the 
umbel. Glumes +; in. long, ovate, somewhat boat-shaped, keel 
3-nerved, slightly excurrent, margins brown, hyaline. Rachilla after 
the fall of the glumes ragged with small black scales. Style slightly 
villous below the 3 stigmas, not much dilated at the base. Nut 
zs in. long, globosely obovoid, pale brown or whitish, minutely 
tuberculate. 
Dehra Dun (Royle, etc.), Saharanpur, Agra (Jameson), Shikohabad 
(Duthie), Shahjahanpur (Duthie). Distris.: Throughout India, 
Ceylon, China, Malaya, Australia. 
18. F. miliacea Vahl, Enum. ii (1806), 287; F. B. I. vi, 644 ; 
Prain, Beng. Pl. 1155 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ti, 883. 
Annual tufted, stems 1-2 ft. high, angular, striate, leaves usually about 
as long as or rather longer than the stem, up to 4 in. broad, seabrid 
on the margins towards the apex, sheaths glabrous, margins scarious. 
Spikelets 35-75 in. long, subglobose, obtuse in decompound umbels, 
rays and pedicels filiform, bracts linear-filiform with broad dilated 
bases shorter than the rays. Glumes 3, in. long, ovate, obtuse, 
somewhat boat-shaped or concave, obscurely nerved, keel not or 
scarcely excurrent, margins brown, hyaline. Rachilla after the fall 
of the glumes deeply pitted, the edges of the areoles pale and very 
short. Style glabrous scarcely swollen at the base. Nut 3, in. long, 
obovoid, pale brown, minutely tuberculate. 
Dehra Dun (Parker), Saharanpur (Royle), Moradabad (Thomson). Very 
similar to F. quinquangularis but readily separable by the difference 
in the rachilla after the fall of the glumes. Distr1s. Throughout 
India and most warm countries. 
14. F. complanata, Link. Hort. Berol, i (1827), 292; F. B. I. 
vt, 646; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1155 ; Cooke, Fl, Bomb. vi, 885 ; Collett, 
Fl. Siml. 562. 
