138. CYPERACEM. [8. Fimbristylis. 



Spikelets 1-3 (on the same plant), distant, ovoid or conical, -S--?" 

 long, dense -flowered with all the glumes spiral, supported at the base 

 or not by a rigid lanceolate bract -1-1" long with a rigid green excurrent 

 keel or broad awn. Glumes lower flowering suborbicular concave 

 -15" long, keeled above and somewhat mucronate, many-striate. Nut 

 suborbicular-obovate with a short stipes -07" long with, -05" long 

 without, the stipes, biconvex, very flnely minutely brown-striate 

 and microscopically dotted (smooth white rarely discoloured brownish, 

 Clarke). 



Pixnieah; iLurzl Manblium (Barakar), Clarke] Hazaribagh, 2000 ft., Clarke I 

 Orissa, Walsh ! Throughout India, Clarke, and probably throughout our area, 

 Fl.. Fr. Aug.-Oct. 



Rhizome or very short. Leaves filiform, \-^ as long as stem, incurved edges 

 minutely scabious, superficial cells very distinct. Glumes seriatim deciduous, 

 rhachilla clothed with small scales (bases of ghmies?) after their fall or (fide 

 Clarke) leaving the rhachilla minutely hairy hy the ragged edges of the areoles. 

 .Style long flattened, villous. 



12. F. sub-bispicata, Xees d- Meyen. 



Caespitose, rigid, 6-15" high with leaves shorter than the stem '04" 

 broad in middle, obtuse. Spikelets large linear-oblong •5--7" long 

 before fall of glumes, 1-3 rarely G, usually 1-2 sessile and 1 ray, 

 subtended by 1-2 short bracts. Rhachilla after fall of lower glumes 

 reaching 1" with very spiral scars. Glumes oblong scarious, median 

 about -2" slightly keeled and mucronate above. Nut obovoid or 

 pjTiform, smooth, -06" long, microscopically striate with dots. 



Puri, Atkinson ! Fl., Fr. May. 



13. F. dipsacea, Benth. 



A little plant growing in dense tufts 2-4" high and 3-6" broad with 

 slender or filiform stems and capillary leaves often as long as the stem. 

 Spikelets very numerous, single and in dense umbels with 2-3 filiform 

 bracts often overtopping umbel and up to -6" long, subglobose or 

 oblong •1--2" long, echinate with the awns of the glumes. Glumes 

 very narrow, hyaline with green keel excurrent into a squarrose awn 

 as long as the blade, -06—08" long with the awn. Nut •025--03" long 

 linear cylindric glabrous or Avith capitate hairs mostl}^ curved. Stig- 

 mas 2 as long as the style. 



Purneah! Santal Parganas, Kurz I Sandy bank of Ganges, -STezo Herb. Fl., 

 Fr. May. 



Clarke states that the young pistil is frequently ornamented with clavate glands 

 which usually disappear in fruit, but in one ot' Wight's specimens ai-e developed 

 into ovoid processes nearly as wide as the nut. These glands or capitate hairs are 

 multicellular with the walls of the cells irregularly thickened, the stalks are 

 1-cellular. 



14. F. squarrosa, Vahl. 



A little tufted plant similar to F. dipsacea superficially. Spikelets 

 all oblong •15--25" long in umbels often 2-4" diam. Avith bracts usually 

 short, sometimes as long as the umbel. Glumes flat broadly oblong 

 pale fuscous with keel produced into a long squarrose awn equal to 

 or exceeding the blade, -OT-'OO" with the awn. Nut compressed 

 orbicular-obovoid, smooth, pale 3-ellow. Style base swollen with 



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