138. CYPERAGE.^. [8. Fimbristylis. 



terminal ones sometimes solitary, in compound and decompound 

 umbels 1-3" diam. (umbels usually longer than broad). Glumes 

 usually with an empty aristate glume or bract at the base and clusters 

 also supported by an aristate bract. Lowest fl. glumes often with 

 excurrent keel, other fl. glumes •15-- 10" long, cymbiform, chestnut- 

 brown with narrow scarious margins, keel very shortly or not excurrent. 

 St, 3 with linear apiculate anthers. Ovary with pyramidal stjde base, 

 style -OT--!" long glabrous (or nearly so), stigmas ^ths as long or more, 

 minutely pubescent. Nut obovoid, 3-gonous, -04" long, minutely 

 verrucose, 



Moiig-hyr, Ham. ! Chota Nagpur, chiefly on the plateaux. Sandy places, 

 Manbhum, ii'Mrz. Dry grassy places in Ranchi I Palamau! Chota Nagpur, Jfoorf 

 (without district) ! i'L, Fr. May-Sept. Perennial. 



Rootstock woody, clothed by the brown dilated bases of the leaf-sheaths. 



L. usually with minutely hispidulous margins at base. Umbels with one to 

 three principal bracts '5-1" long with broad araplexicaul many-nerved dry 

 sheaths and frequently scabrid blade. Branches of umbel much striate and often 

 compressed. 



The plant is well named, the brown tufted spikelets reminding one much of a 

 Juncus, It is usually burnt annually by jungle iires and shoots up after these 

 have imssed over the ground. 



6. F. fusca, Benth. 



Rootstock stout. Stems tall slender 8-18" with a tuft of leaves 

 2-6" long, -06" broad, at the base. Spikelets discrete brown oblong 

 •3" in rather lax mostly compound umbels 1-2-5" diam. with usually 

 hairy short bracts •3--7" long. Glumes •17--2" long, lower 3 empty 

 and 2-6 nut-bearing distichous or nearly so, upper 3-6 male or sterile 

 3-few-ranked, narrow-lanceolate, few-nerved, keeled, all shortly 

 awned or mucronate, margins pale. Stigmas 3. Nut obovoid pale 

 •04" long minutely verrucose. 

 Manbhum (Bai-akar) in sand^" thickets. Knrz ! Fl. May. 



7. F. tenera, Roem. db Sch. Var. verrucsenum, Clarke (in Kew Herb.). 



A slender rather flexuous-stemmed plant 8-12" high. Stems 

 tufted 4-5-angular under the sparse irregular umbel. Spikelets all 

 distinct, linear-lanceolate, •15--3" long light-brown, 7-9 only in the 

 umbel. Glumes •06--08" long, ovate acuminate with 3-nerved 

 slightly excurrent keel, glandular-puberulous in the type, glabrate in 

 our plant. Stigmas 3. Nut not compressed, with 2 ridges stronger 

 than the third, broadly obovoid, yellow-brown, verrucose. 



Ranchi. 2000 ft., Clarke ! Fl., Fr. Oct. 



L, about half as long as stem, very narrow, flat, glabrous. Umbel subcompound 

 with 2-3 bristle-like bracts up to 1" long. Rhachilla after fall of glumes with much 

 raised margins to the scars. Glumes somewhat cymbiform. Style longer than 

 nut, glabrous, deciduous with the pyramidal style-base. 



This is apparently the same as the published variety oxylepls, Clarke [St end. sp.). 



8. F. monostachya, Hassk. 



Csespitose with a dense tuft of fibrous roots and stems thickened at 

 base 3-10" high compressed and striate, microscopically hispidulous 

 above on one edge. Leaves several at base of stems almost filiform, 

 1-6" long, semi-terete, back round, upper surface depressed, base 

 slightly narrowed to the sheath and the edges with a few microscopic 

 hairs. Spikelet solitary (rarely 2-3, Clarke) terminal •3-'4" long, 



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