Fimbristylis.~\ CLXXII. OYPERACB^I. (C. B. Clarke.) 631 



ing with bisexual flowers deciduous, upper tabescent. Stamens 3 or 2-1, 

 anterior; anthers not (or shortly) crested. Bristles 0. Style long or 

 longish, often villous, 3- or 2-tid, deciduous (leaving no button), or 

 persistent ; style-base dilated, constricted below the dilatation. Nut 

 obovoid (very rarely oblong), obtuse ; gynophore more or less prominent, 

 sometimes dilated at apex into an obscurely 3-lobed saucer. Species 125, 

 all warm regions. 



CONSPECTUS OP THE SECTIONS (exceptions omitted). 

 Sect. I. ELEOCHABOIDES. Stems with one spikelet Sp. 1-9. 



Sect. II. DICHELOSTYLIS. Style 2-fid. 



Series A. Spikelets solitary S p. 10-26. 



Series B. Spikelets clustered Sp. 27-30. 



Sect. III. TRICHELOSTYLIS. Style 3-fid. 



Series A. Spikelets solitary Sp. 31-45. 



Series B. Spikelets clustered Sp. 46-51. 



Sect. IV. ABILDG-AARDIA. Lower glumes distichous .... Sp. 52-58. 



Sect. I. ELEOCHAROIDES, Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 301. Lowest fertile 

 glumes of the spikelet spirally imbricated; stems with 1 spikelet (1-3 in 

 F. polytrichoides). 



2-Jld ; nut biconvex. 

 f* Nut oblong, style subpersistent. 



1. F. tetrag-ona, Br. Prod. [1810] 226 ; stem nearly leafless, spike- 

 let somewhat large conic dense-fld., style-branches 2 short, nut reticulate 

 straw-colvd. Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 305. F. cylindrocarpa, Kunth Enum. 

 ii. 222 ; Boeck. in Linnesa, xxxvii. 7 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. xxxix. part 2, 

 85. F. abjiciens, Steud. Syn. Gyp. 107 ; Mic[. Fl. 2nd. Bat. iii. 316. F. 

 Arnottii, Thw. Enum. 348. Mischospora efoliata, Boeck. in Flora, xliii. 

 113. Isolepis?, Wall. Cat. 3490 F. 



Throughout INDIA, except the North- West, alt. 0-3000 ft. ; from NEPAL and 

 BOMBAY to CEYLON and TAVOY. DIS^TBIB. E. Asia, Australia. 



Glabrous. Stems 4-24 in., tufted, obscurely quadrangular; uppermost sheath 

 laterally mucronate or produced, sometimes up to 1-1| in., lanceolate, coloured, 

 hardly foliaceous. Spikelet i-f in., terete, erect. G-lumes oblong, truncate, scarcely 

 mucronate, keeled, horizontally spreading ^ 2 or 3 lowest empty, ovate, much 

 shorter than spike. Stamens 2 (rarely 3). Style long, flattened, villous nearly to 

 the base. Nut as long as -f glume, linear-oblong, plane-convex, curved, deciduous 

 with glume, stalked j outermost "cells quadrate-hexagonal, conspicuous, in about 9 

 longitudinal series on each face of nut. 



tf Nut obovoid, transversely wavy wrinkled or ridged (outermost cells 

 longitudinally oblong). 



2. F. acuminata, Vahl Enum. ii. 285 ; stem leafless with one erect 

 lanceolate spikelet, style 2-fid, nut obovoid transversely wavy wrinkled 

 straw-colrd. rarely becoming discoloured brown. Nees in Wight Gontrib. 

 96 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 314; Thw. Enum. 348 f~2?oec. in Linncea, xxxvii. 

 3. F. acicularis, Br. Prod. 226. Scirpus scaber, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 220. 

 Eleogiton scabra, Dietr. Sp. PL ii. 99. Isolepis ?, Wall. Gat. 3487 B 

 (partly'), 3494. 



