8. FiMBRibTYLis.] 138. CYPERACEjE. 



numerous, small, ellipsoid or oblong-lanceolate, more or less pointed 

 •1--2" long on capillary pedicles in rather compact decompound 

 umbels 1-6" diam. Gl. -06" long, ovately cymbiform with keel 

 slightly produced into a mucro. Nut globosely obovoid -02" long 

 minutely cancellate with very short but transversely elongate cells 

 and verrucose when old, very minutely apiculate after fall of the style. 

 Style not conspicuously flattened, a little longer than nut, onlj'^ 

 pubescent near the 3 stigmas which are nearly as long. 



Common in rice-fields. Santal Parg., JSTwrz! Ranchi ! Singbhum ! Manbhum, 

 Clarke ! Hazaribagh, Clarke ! also on Parasnatb 3000 ft. ! FL, Fr. Oct.-Jan. 



As in most Fimbristylis scales are left on tbe rhachilla after tbe fall of the' 

 glumes, the morphology of which is not clear to me. They are very marked in 

 this species, are brown and lanceolate and '02" long. They appear to form no part 

 of the glumes but are rather in the nature of bracteoles. 



3. F. complanata, Link. 



Stems 8"-2 ft. flattened above. Leaves numerous often 4-8" long, 

 •12--22" broad, almost premorse. Umbels large usually very com- 

 pound 2-4" diam. with brown lanceolar angled spikelets •17--25" 

 elongating to -3" after fall of lower glumes. Bracts broad very obtuse 

 like the leaves, always much shorter than the umbel, -5-1 -5" by •!". 

 Glumes -OS--!" with the 3-nerved keel of lower glumes excurrent as a 

 flne point. Nut -02" long white obovoid obtuse tubercled. 



Several times collected in Bengal without specific locality and also in the United 

 Provinces and the Peninsula. It probably therefore occurs in our Area although 

 I have seen no specimens cei-tainly collected there. Clarke states that it occurs 

 throughout India. FL, Fr. May-Sept. 



4. F. Thomsonii, Boeck. 



Stems 8"-2 ft. obscurely angular or compressed above, base often 

 densely clothed with leaf bases on a thickened stock. Leaves short 

 2-4" or up to 12", obtuse, -1" broad. Spikelets large •2--3" long (or 

 •4", Clarke), ellipsoid or oblong-lanceolar, discrete in compound and 

 decompound umbels, angled, with an empty aristate glume or bract 

 at the base -15" long, the awn hispid. Lowest flowering glume also 

 shortly awned and slightly hispid on keel. Other fl. glumes '\--\Q" 

 long, cymbiform with keel very shortly excurrent. St. 3. Ovary 

 linear with very large pyramidal style base, style (Avith base) •06--07" 

 glabrous (or nearly so), arms nearly as long, minutely pubescent. 

 Nut pyriform-obovoid, obtusely 3-gonous, •04--06" long, obscurely, 

 transversely lineolate, verrucose. 



Hazaribagh (on Parasnath, 4200 ft.) Clarkel Fl., Fr. April. 



I doubt whether this is anything more than -F.jKxei/oj'Hn's with discrete spikelets 

 though the style-base is much broader than I have seen it in that species. The 

 Hazaribagh specimen (named by Clarke) has; the thick stock, leaves and bracts 

 much as I have described nndevjiniciformis. 



5. F. junciformis, Kunth. 



Stems 8-18" obscurely angular or somewhat compressed, usually 

 densely leafy at the base and arising from a stout thick rootstock 

 sometimes '5" diam. Leaves usually short 2-5" long (or sometimes 

 two-thirds as long as stems, Clarke), -OS-- 12" broad, obtuse, margins 

 incurved or not. Spikelets •15--25" long, always some clustered, 



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