634 CLXXII. CYPERACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Fimbristylis. . 



Sect. II. DICHELOSTYLIS, Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 309 (not Dichostylis 

 [Genus] Nees). Lowest fertile glumes of the spikelet spirally imbricated; 

 stems with many or several (depauperated examples not rarely with 1) 

 spikelet ; style 2-fid ; nut biconvex ; style usually flattened from front to 

 back, often villous below its bifurcation. This section contains all such 

 species as are neither JEleocharoides nor Abildgaardia, and have only 2 

 branches to the style. In this section the style is never 3-fid (except F. 

 stolonifera, var. /3). Compare, among the species placed in Trichelostylis, 

 F. fflobulosa, and F. cymosa in which 2-fid styles sometimes occur. 



Series A.. Spikelets all (or nearly all) solitary except in F. rigidula 

 often paired, in F. diphylla (and in other species) occasionally clustered ; . 

 in F. spathaced the umbel is dense, sometimes congested into a head. 



* Stem with few (often 3-1) spikelets. 



10. P. schoenoides, Vahl Enum. ii. 286 ; glabrous, stem with 1-3 

 middle-sized ovoid spikelets, style 2-fid^ nut obovoid stalked biconvex 

 smooth Vhite rarely discoloured brownisK. Nees in Wiffit Contrib. 97; 

 Thw. Enum. 348 ; Boeck. ifa Linnaa, xxxvii. 5 (excl. var. /3). F. bispicata,^ - 

 ifees I. c. 97 (mainly) ; Boeck. I. c. 6 (partly). F. iliconstans, Steud. 

 Syn.. Gyp. 107. F. polymorpha var. depauperata, Boeck. in Flora, 

 Iviii. 111. Scirpus schoenoides, Retz Obs. v. 14. S. monostachyus, Kcenig. x 

 ms. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 219. S. bispicatus, Roxb. I. c. 220. Isolepis rnono- 

 stachya, Spreng. Neue Entdeck. iii. 11. I. bispicata, Roem. & Sch. Syst. 

 Mant. ii. 61. I. rariflora, Schrad. in Roem. & Sch. I.e. 65. Eleogiton 

 mono'stachya, Dietr. Sp. PL ii. 97. Abildgaardia ' nervosa, Presl. ReL 

 Haenlc. i. 180. Isolepis ?, Wall. Cat. 3490 (except F). 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-6500 ft. DISTBIB. S.E. Asia, N. Australia. 



Rhizome 0, or rarely horizontal, very sh.orfc. Stems 4-12 in., tufted, rather 

 slender, striate, base often thickened. Leaves as long as |-f stem (occasionally 

 longer than stem), narrow, edges incurved (when dry) most minutely scabrous'. 

 Spikelets J-f in., dense-fld., pale or brown. Q-lumes ovate, obtuse, scarcely mucro- 

 nate, adpressed, incurved, many-striate, rusty-brown rarely green on back ; lowest 

 empty, like the rest, or rarely bract-like with green nerve excurrent -1 in. ; all 

 caducous seriatim, leaving the rhachilla minutely hairy by the ragged edges of the 

 areoles. Stamens 3, rarely 2; anthers not crested. Style long, flattened, villous 

 nearly to base ; branches short. Nut as long as ^ | glume ; outermost cells very 

 small, subquadrate obscure.' The large Khasi form, with rusty -brown spikelets -| in. 

 long, is by Boeckeler added (perhaps rightly) to F. suo -bispicata. 



11. P. sub-bispicata, Nees Sf Meyen, in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 

 xix., Suppl. i. 75; glabrous, stem with 1-3-6 large cylindric spikelets, style 

 2-fid, nut obovoid stalked biconvex smooth white or becoming brown. 

 Bentli. Fl. Hongk. 391. F. japonica, Sieb. et Zucc. ms. ; Steud. Syn. Gyp. 

 107. F. bispicata, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 6 (partly). 



ORISSA; Pooree, W. S. Atkinson. DISTRIB. China, Japan. 



Stems 8-20 in. Spikelets up to 1 by % in. Nut scarcely as long as glume. 

 The type of Nees and Meyen is an abundant East Asiatic plant near the sea, and 

 appears distinct from F. schoenoides by its larger size and larger spikelet ; but the 

 species is scarcely otherwise separable, though admitted by Bentham. 



** Stem with many or several spikelets [but, even in the case of species 

 that have normally a compound umbel, small examples with few (some- 

 times with 1) spikelets occur.] 



