Fimbristylis.'] CLXXII. CYPERACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 633 



mucronate, style 2-fid, nut smooth, brown obscurely white-scaly on 

 shoulders. 



SYLHET, C. B. Clarice. TENASSBRIM, Heifer. 



Stem 4-8 in. Spikelet by ^ in. Glumes suberect, dirty straw-colour, keel 

 green, lowest like the others or if bracteiform shorter than spikelet. Stamens 1-2. 

 Style below bifurcation glabrous or sparsely hairy. Nut less obtuse than that of 

 F. polytrichoides ; outermost cells larger, in about 15 longitudinal rows on each face 

 of nut. Otherwise as F. polytrichoides, from which it differs chiefly in its narrower 

 acuter spikelet. 



** Style 3-fid ; nut trigonous. 



7. F. pauciflora, Br. Prod. 225 ; stem bristle-like, spikelet slender 

 lanceolate pale, style 3-fid, nut obovoid white shoulders "subtubercled. 

 Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 303. F. filif ormis, Kunth Enum. ii. .221 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. iii. 314 ; BoecJc. in Linncea, xxxvii. 23. F. pumila, Benih. in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. [1843] 239; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 315. F. 

 malaccana,' Boeck. in Flora, xli. 597. Trichelostylis filiformis, Nees in 

 Wight Contrib. 102. Isolepis ?, Wall. Cat. 3488. 



From MERGTJI, Griffith, to SINGAPORE, Wallich. DISTRIB. E. Asia, Malaya, 

 N. Australia. 



Annual, glabrous. Stems 4-8 (rarely 12) in., tufted, leafless, or lower sheaths 

 sometimes leaf-bearing (or fide Boeckeler uppermost sheath sometimes leaf -bearing). 

 Spikelet \ by in. Glumes ovate, imbricate (somewhat loosely) on all sides, erect, 

 concave, adpressed, white, subscarious, with rusty spots on the back, all falling ; 

 rhacheola scarcely hispid. Stamens frequently 2. Style below trifurcation nearly 

 glabrous, deciduous together with its narrowly-pyramidal style -base. Nut as- long 

 as glume ; outermost cells small, obscure. 



8. F. Kins ii, 0. B. Clarke ms. ; Boeck. Gyp. Nov. ii. 40 ; stem slender 

 hairy, spikelet ovoid-ellipsoid, glumes ovate obtuse, style 3ifid, nut obovoid 

 dusky black minutely scabrid. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 6-8000 ft. 



Rhizome very short. Stems 4-12 in., tufted. Leaves as long as J-f stem, narrow, 

 hairy. Spikelet % in., terminal, erect, terete, dense-fld. Glumes imbricate on all 

 sides, adpressed, concave scarcely keeled, chestnut-brown, slenderly 3-5-nerved, 

 glabrous ; lowest empty, like the others or more seldom bracjb-like ^-1 in. Stamens 

 3. Style long, slender, glabrous, deciduous together w.ith, its narrowly-pyramidal 

 base; branches long. Nut as long as glume, trigonous; outermost cells small, 

 subquadrate, lax, subpapillose, scarious. Near the Australian f 1 . monandra, F. 

 Mueller. t 



9. F. subtrabeculata, C. B. Clarke ; stem slender, spikelet ellip- 

 soid, glumes ovate obtuse, style 3-fid, nut obovoid straw-colrd. smooth 

 subtrabeculate. 



NILGHIRI HILLS ; Pykara, alt. 5600 ft., Gamble. ' 



Glabrous. Rhizome 0, or short, slender, descending nearly vertically. Stems 

 4-8 in., tufted. Leaves several, longish (often f stem), bristle-like. Spikelet % in., 

 fine brown ; bract or shorter than spikelet. Glumes numerous, imbricate on all 

 sides, concave, scarcely keeled, brown, 3 -nerved, paler on back. Style long, gla- 

 brous, deciduous together with its narrowly-pyramidal base, branches long, linear. 

 Nut as long as f glume, obtuse, scarcely stalked, trigonous ; outermost cells trans- 

 versely oblong white not vertically superimposed in regular series ; nut thus not 

 longitudinally striate but irregularly conspicuously trabeculate. This may be F. 

 sub-bulbosa, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. ii. 39 (non Flora xli. 598) from description ; but Boeck. 

 says this is " allied to F. juncea, Roem. & Sch. with 2-fid style (sometimes 3-fid)." 



