638 CLXXII. CYPERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Fimbristylis. 



and decompound, style 2-fid, nut obovoid smooth straw-colrd. Boeck. 

 in Linn&a, xxxviii. 409 (not xxxvii. 13.) Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3507, 

 C. 



SYLHET ; WallicJi. 



Glabrous. Roots fibrous, stout. Stems 12-20 in. scabrous on edges at top. 

 Leaves flat, rob'ust, often overtopping stem. Bracts 3-4, two lower often' 4-5 in. 

 very scabrous on margins. Spikelets ^nany, i by ^ in., 5-8-fld., acute, chestnut- 

 brown. Glumes ovate, acute, adpressed-incurved. Stamens 3. Style long, scarcely 

 compressed, nearly glabrous ; branches long. Nut as long as f glume, biconvex, 

 scarcely stalked ; outermost cells very small in 20-24 vertical series on each face. 

 From the flattened top of stem and small spikelets this has been sometimes referred 

 to F. complanata. 



19. F. podocarpa, Nees in Wight Contrib. 98 (partly) ; nut smooth 

 finely reticulated not longitudinally striated, gynophore very prominent 

 obpyramidal, otherwise as F. dipTiylla. Nees & Meyen in Nov. Act. Acad. 

 Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843) 77, var". d (and part a not /3.) F. communis, 

 Kunth Enum. ii. 234 (partly). F. polymorpha, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvii. 

 14 (partly). Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3521 B. 



From the W. Himalaya to UPPER ASSAM and DACCA ; CHOTA NAGPORE, C. JB. 

 Clarice-, KHASIA, H. f. e't T. T. (Fimbristylis n. 33) ; &c. DISTRIB. Malaya, China, 

 Marianne Isles. 



This is F. podocarpa, Munro ms. and Herb. Hook. f. ; the type example of F. 

 podocarpa in Wight named by Nees' hand is typical F. diphylla, Vahl. In F. 

 podocarpa (as here understood) the gynophore is obpyramidal, distinguishable from 

 the nut, its apex is dilated sometimes into a 3-lobed saucer resembling much some 

 Sclerias. The nut has the small outermost cells in 20-24 rows on each face. 



20. F. fuscinux, C. B. Clarke; nearly glabrous, stems middle- 

 sized, leaves long, umbel large compound, glumes keeled acute puberulous, 

 style 2-fid, nut obovoid smooth dusky finally black. 



N. INDIA; Moradabad, T. Thomson; SIKKIM TERAI, C. B. Clarice. 



Stems 8-20 in. Leaves as long as -f stem, rigid, tip subobtuse. Umbel often 

 6 in. diam. Spikelets all solitary, ovoid, J~j in. long, somewhat angular by reason 

 of the keeled glumes. Glumes glabrate, margins ciliate hairy, shoulders often 

 puberulous, tips spreading not adpressed incurved (as in F. ferruginea). From the 

 large umbel and long leaves this has been referred to F. diphylla; it is nearer F. 

 ferruffinea. 



21. F. albo-viridis, C. B. Clarke ms. in Herb. Calcutt. ; umbel 

 somewhat lax, nut obovoid straw-colrd. shining smooth or with numerous 

 obscure longitudinal striations otherwise as F. dipkylla. 



E. BENGAL ; Griffith (in Herb. Calcutt.') ; KIVER MEGNA, J. D. Hooker; UPPER 



ASSAM, Jenkins. 



Stems 12-20 in. Leaves long, nearly glabrous. Umbel once or twice compound, 

 pedicels long. Spikelets \-\ in. long, greenish- white, sometimes tinged purple- 

 chestnut. Nut often with minute scattered white scales ; outermost cells small, in 

 25-30 longitudinal series on each face. Very near F. diphylla, but all the examples 

 agree closely, and the marking of the nut is unlike that of F. diphylla much 

 nearer that "of F. podocarpa. 



22. F. fetrugiiiea, Vahl Enum. 291 ; stems '8-30 in., leaves short 

 sometimes none, glabrous or hairy, umbel simple or compound usually 

 contracted, glumes often puberulous below tip, style 2-fid, nut obovoid 

 smooth-pale 'finally brownish. Delile Fl. -5gypt, 10, t. 6, fig. 3; Nees in 



