Fimbristylis.'] CLXXII. CYPERACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 641 



Stems annual, tufted, trigonous, 4-8 in. (or in Duthie n. 9860, stem 0, spikelets 

 basal). Leaves usually shorter than stem, narrow, glabrous. Spikelets 4-29 in the 

 head, -f by ^ in., densely-fld. ; bi'acts 2-4, much overtopping head. Glumes ovate, 

 silver-grey, keel green. Stamen often 1. Style small, shorter than nut, nearly 

 glabrous, deciduous with its base. Nut very small, about ^ as long as glume, 

 biconvex, almost margined ; outer cells obscure. 



28. F. albicans, Nees in Wight Gontrib. 100 ; stems leafy at base, 

 spikelets ellipsoid rusty grey, glumes scarcely acute, style 2-fid, nut 

 obovoid straw-colrd. smooth transversely minutely trabeculaite. BoecJe. in 

 Linnsea, xxxvii. 9. Isolepis, Wall. Gat. 3482. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Wight, Wallich. 



Nearly glabrous. Stems 8-14 in., slender. Leaves narrowly ligulate, tip sud- 

 denly narrowed acute. Spikelets 4-15 in the head, By ^ in. Stamens often 2*. 

 Style longer than nut, slender, glabrous, with long linear branches. Nut small, 

 shining ; outermost cells conspicuous, transversely oblong, not accurately superim- 

 posed in vertical series (so that the nut is scarcely striated longitudinally). Other- 

 wise as F. argentea. 



** Clusters of spikelets subumbellately corymbed. 



29. F. Kookeriana, Boeck. in Li nnsea, xxxvii. 22; nearly glabrous, 

 spikelets clustered and solitary linear-lanceolate, style 2-fid, nut, obovoid 

 yellow-brown sc[uamose-tuberculate. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 1500-4000 ft. CHOTA NAGPORE ; alt. 2000 ft. Clarice. 



Annual. Stems 4-10 in., tufted, compressed. Leaves^ often as long as; stem, 

 narrow, flat. Umbel often 4-6 in. diam. ; branches oblique-erect; bracts like tlie 

 leaves, often overtopping umbel. Spikelets 1-6 in a cluster, ^ by T V~T\> in., 

 terete. Glumes rather remote, oblong, shortly acut;e, adpressed incurved, rusty- 

 green, keeled, brown-scarions on sides. Stamens usually 2. Style longer than nut, 

 scarcely flattened, slightly dilated at base, villous nearly its whole length, deciduous 

 with style-base. Nut as lon^ as 4 j glume, biconvex, obtuse, very shortly stalked; 

 outer cells transversely-oblong, regularly superimposed in 12-15 vertical series in 

 each face (i.e. nut slenderly longitudinally 12-l5-ribbed) j shoulders of nut 

 subtuberculate by sm^ 1 scales or papillae. 

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30. F. sericea, Br. Prod. 228; leaves numerous, white silky strigose 

 beneath, spikelets ellipsoid-oblong silvery grey, style 2-fid, nut obovoid 

 smooth pale. Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 22. F. decora, Nees & Meyen in - 

 Wight Gontrib. 101. F. dasyphylla, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 327, F. velu- 

 tina, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxvi. 87. 



ORISSA; Poori, W. S. Atkinson; Ganjam, Lawson. SINGAPORE, Ridley. 

 DISTRIB. E. Asia, Malaya, Australia. 



JRhizome descending or horizontal, woody, up to 3 in. long, sometimes divided, 

 densely covered by leaves. Stems 4-8 in., rigid, striate. Leaves as long as %-% 

 stem, rigid, curved, T V-i i n - broad. Umbel |3 in. in diam., simple or compound; 

 bracts i- in. Spikelets 2-6 in a cluster, by - in., somewhat densely -flowered. 

 Glumes erect adpressed, ovate, keeled, scarcely acute, striate, dusky purple-green, 

 pubescent by minute white hairs, margins scarious white. Style about .as long as 

 nut, slightly villous below bifurcation, deciduous with style-base. Nut as long as 

 g-f glume, biconvex, scarcely stalked. 



Sect. III. TEICHELOSTYLIS (Genus), Lestib. Essai Farm. Gyp. 40. Lowest 

 fertile glumes of spikelet spirally imbricated ; stems with many or several 

 (rarely few or 1) spikelets. Style 3-fid (in F. cymosa and F. glob:dosa, the 

 lowest flowers in a spike have often 3-fid style, the upper a 2-fid style). 



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