Fimbristylis.} CLXXII. CYPERACE^I. (. ,B. Claa-ke.) '.^y. .' 643 



N.W. HIMALAYA, alt. 4-9000 ft. SIMLA, T. Thomson, Gamble. KTJMAON, 

 Duthie. DISTRIB. Japan. 



Stolons up to 2 in., densely clothed by lanceolate striate scales, finally hardening 

 into a woody rhizome. Leaves as long as stem, flat, acute. Umbel 1-3 in. in 

 diam., with 5-14 spikelets ; bracts short. Spikelets i by ^ in., ellipsoid-lanceolate, 

 10-fld. Glumes adpressed, boat-shaped, ovate, shortly acuminate, cltestnut or testa- 

 ceous, usually with round glands in upper half, margins scatfbus*. Style long, 

 glabrous, deciduous with narrow style-base. Nut as long as ^-f glume, tip sub- 

 pyramidal, ^"i* *'** 



** Stem with many spikelets (at least in fairly developed examples). 

 f Nut slenderly trabeculate (outermost cells transversely oblong). 



35. F. Arnottiana, Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxvii. 28 ; stems a foot (at 

 least), umbel decompound, spikelets cuboid-ellipsoid one-colrd., glumes 

 ovate obtuse brown hardly keeled, style 3-fid, nut obovoid yellow-brown 

 transversely lineate obscurely tuberculated. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Cannanore, Campbell (Herb. Wight propr., n. 1884, 

 right-hand plant only). 



Stems somewhat slender, 4-5-angular under umbel. Umbel 3-4 in. diam., 

 glabrous, with 30 spikelets ; bracts 3-4, up to f in. long, very narrow. Spilcelets 

 i by i in., obtuse, 10-fld., styles conspicuously protruded. Glumes concave, ad- 

 pressed incurved, scarcely striate. Stamens 2-3; anthers linear-oblong, scarcely 

 apiculate. Style as long as nut, slender, glabrous, deciduous with the narrow style- 

 base. Nut small, as long as ^-f glume. Founded on some upper portions of stems 

 without leaves, pasted down (in Herb. Wight) with F. quinquangularis, to which it 

 is closely allied. 



36. F. filifolia* JBoeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 32 ; stems 2 ft. quadran- 

 gular, leaves long narrow convolute or 0, umbel decompound and supra- 

 decompound, spikelets ellipsoid acute, style 3-fid, nut obovoid straw-yellow 

 smooth obscurely transversely lineolate. Trichelostylis sp., n. 14, Herb. 

 Ind. Or. H.f.&T. 



SIKKIM TERAI ; Dulkajhar, alt. 500 ft., C. JS. Clarke. KHASIA HILLS ; Churra, 

 alt. 4200ft., J.D.H., &c.' 



Glabrous. Leaves sometimes as long nearly as stem, often shorter, sometimes 0. 

 Umbel 4-12 in. in diam., with many (sometimes 250) solitary spikelets ; bracts 

 J-2 in. Spilcelets i by ^ in., brown. Glumes ovate, obtuse, with 3 green nerves. 

 Style as long as nut, slender, slightly villous below trifurcation, deciduous with the 

 narrow pyramidal style-base ; branches long linear. Nut as long as f glume, round 

 trigonous ; outermost cells in about 12 longitudinal series on each face. Resembles 

 large examples of F. diphylla, but differs not only in the 3-fid style, but in the long 

 linear style- branches. 



37. F asperrima, 'Boeclc. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 40 ; stems 1^-2^ ft., 

 leaves long, umbel decompound with numerous spikelets, bracts acute 

 often longer than umbel, style 3-fid, nut ellipsoid brown smooth trans- 

 versely trabeculate smooth or slightly tuberculate. F. chaetorrhiza, TJiw. 

 Enum. 349 (partly, not of Kuntli). Isolepis dura, Moritzi, Verz. Zoll. PL 

 97. Trichelostylis asperrima, Nees ms. Fimbristylis, Wall. Gat. 3502 B 

 (partly), 3525 (mixed). 



CEYLON, Thwaites, &c. From TAVOY, Wallich, to SINGAPORE, Ridley, frequent. 

 DISTRIB. Malaya. 



Stems either 5-angular or flattened under umbel. Leaves several, often as long 

 as stem. Umbel large, sometimes with 150 solitary spikelets. Spikelets^ style, and 



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