8. FiMBRiSTTLis.] 138. CYPERACE.E. 



remarkable pendulous villi all round sometimes ftlis as long as nut. 

 Stigmas 2. 



From the United Provinces to Lower Bengal! Patna. Wall. I Dalalganj 

 (Puvneah), J.D.H. ! Santal Parganas, Kurz ! Fl , Fr. Jan.-May, 

 Glabrous or pubescent. Stems 2-8", striate. L. about ^ to 2tl>s stem. 



15. F. aestivalis, VaM. 



A small grass-like tufted and gregarious herb 2-8" high with very 

 slender erect angular stems and filiform leaves clothed, as well as the 

 sheaths, with small spreading white hairs. Spikelets very small, 

 •06--08" long in compound and decompound umbels Avith very unequal 

 rays •2-1 -S" long supported by filiform bracts, the lowest of which 

 usually overtops the umbel and is like the leaves. Glumes 'OS-'OT" 

 long feAV scarious hispidulous cymbiform with green keel excurrent 

 as an erect awnlet (as long as the blade in the lowest glumes only). 

 St. 1. Nut ellipsoid-subglobose or somewhat obovoid 2-convex 

 smooth, slightly margined, very obscurely reticulate, •02--03" long. 

 Style nearly as long as nut prominently bulbous and minutely hairy 

 on the base and with minute unequal scattered hairs upwards, stigmas 

 short recurved puberulous. 



Gregarious in wet places. Patna, Ham. ! Rancbi and Palamau on the pats, 

 elev. 3000 ft. ! Fl. May. Annual. 



Clarke says of the nut that the outermost cells are quadrate-hexagonal, arranged 

 in 12-16 vertical rows on each face, but far less prominent than in F. dichofoma. 



16. F. podocarpa, Nees (in part). 



Csespitose, about 1 ft. high, with striate or angled somewhat flexuous 

 slender glabrous stems (exc. on some of the leaf-sheaths). Leaves as 

 long as or shorter than the stems, -07" wide, ciliate or hispid on margins, 

 sheaths often hairy. Umbels lax with few (sometimes only 3) spike - 

 lets, when compound branches with only 1-3 spikelets. Bracts hairy 

 at base and scabrid on the edges above, one often exceeding the umbel, 

 others shorter. Spikelets brown -IS-vS", mostly supported by a 

 setaceous bract about as long or much shorter with scattered hairs 

 (as on the secondary bracts of the umbel). Glumes concave-ovate 

 or cymbiform, •1--12" long, keeled throughout, very shortly acutely 

 excurrent or minutely cuspidate, lateral nerves 5-7 obscure. Fil. 

 much flattened (arising from base of the foot) -12" long. Nut bi- 

 convex, nearly orbicular above the large obconic swollen usually 

 toothed foot, •07--08" with the foot, -05" without, rounder than in 

 diphylla, polished pale yellow or w^hite, strongly margined, about 

 13-striate with the fine stri* composed of minute raised dots. Style 

 flat, -06" long gently tapering, shortly ciliate above the base, stigmas 

 2 much shorter. 

 Singbhum! Manbhum, Clarke ! FL, Fr. June -Nov. 



17. F. diphylla, Vahl. 



Tufted or stems rather distant on the short rhizome, l"-2 ft. high 

 striate angled or rarely compressed and sometimes hairy under the 

 umbel which is sometimes reduced to 1 spikelet or simple or com- 

 IDound. Leaves long, sheaths and bracts often densely hairy. Spike- 

 lets •2--25" before fall of glumes ovoid-oblong terete not angled above 



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