364 CYPERACEA. [ FUIRENA. 
12. S. chinensis, Munro in Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald (1852-57), 
423; F. B. I. vi, 662 ; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1159; Collett, Fl. Siml. 
564. 
Rhizome stoloniferous. Stems 2-7 ft. high, solitary, leafy, sheath 
loose, mouth oblique, blade often 12 in. long or more, 4 in. broad, 
scabrid on the margins and midrib beneath. Spikelets % in. long, 
ellipsoid, in clusters of 3-15 arranged in large terminal compound 
corymbose umbels, rays up to 5 in. long, bracts several, leafy, the 
lowest exceeding the umbel, the upper reduced to tubular sheaths. 
Glumes + in. long, ovate, concave, obtuse, kee] broad, 3-nerved, 
margins scarious. Srisiles 0 (in the local form, sometimes 3, rarely 
5, Clarke). Style 2-fid. Nut2 - +; in. long excluding the minute 
stipe and short apiculus, elliptic, compressed, pale dull brown. 
Dehra Dun (Gupta). Like many other Himalayan plants this has 
been found in the Mothronwala swamp. Distris.: Himalaya up 
to 5,500 ft. from Chamba eastward to Burma and China. 
11. FUIRENA, Rottb.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 665, 
Annual or perennial herbs leafy to above the middle or to the 
top. Leaves grass-like with an annular membrane at the mouth 
of the sheath. Spikelets many flowered in dense axillary and 
terminal pedunculate clusters. Glumes spirally imbricate, aristate, 
hairy in the upper half. Hypogynous bristles 2eseriate, the outer 
(or sepals) 3, bristle-like or 0, the inner (or petals) 3, with claws 
and broad limb or linear or 0. Stamens 2-3, Style long, slender, 
glabrous, deciduous, stigmas 3. Nut obovoid, trigonous, more or 
jess stipitate, beaked. Species 25 scattered in all warm regions, 
Leaves glabrous, glumes with a scabrid mucro, 
inner scales setiform ; : ; . Jl. F. Wallichiana. 
Leaves patently hairy, glumes with a hispidly 
hairy mucro, inner scales quadrate . . 2. F. glomerata. 
1, F. Wallichiana, Kunth. Enum. II (1837), 182; F. B. I. vi, 
665 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ui, 897. 
Rhizome creeping, short. Stems 12-18 in. high, triquetrous, slightly 
pubescent at the top. Leaves 2-8 in. long by 4 in. broad or less, 
midrib prominent, sheaths long, ligule pubescent. Spikelets 1-4 in. 
long in corymbose clusters, bracts and branches of the corymb small. 
