16 cix : " 'mfjfJE. (C.B.Clarke.) [Fimbristylis. 



43. F. complaneta, Link Hort. Berol. i. 292; stems 8-24 in. 

 flattened under umbel, leaves almost preraorse, style 3-fid, nut minute 



le;s tuberculate. Thw. Enum. 349. F. autumnalis, 

 Speck, in Linnsea, xxxvii. 38. F. scabra, 

 loeckeieri*$feudL Syn. Gyp. 113, partly. Scirpus 

 L4 ; Roxb. PI. Ind. i. 228. S. anceps, Willd. in 

 r fig. 2 ; Roxb. I. c. 230. Cyperus complanatus, 

 Isolepis complanata & Willdenowii, Roem. & Sch. 

 Trichelostylis complanata & T. scabra, Nees in Wight 

 Contra., i < tf. j-imbristjiis, Wall. Cat. 3502 A, 3510, 3525 (partly}. 



^Brought nt INDIA in the warm region. DISTRIB. All warm regions. 



Glabrous. 'Rhizome iardly any, sometimes very short horizontal. Leaves often 

 4-8 by in. Umbel often 4 in. in diam., compound and supradecompound, some- 

 times with 180 spikelets ; bracts 2, shoi'ter than umbel (often suberect), similar to 

 leaves, almost premorse. Spikelets % by T ^ in. Stamens usually 3. Style longer 

 than nut, glabrous; branches linear, Iqng. Nut about | length of glume; outer- 

 most cells short oblong transverse, in vertical series but obscure (i. e. nut scarcely 

 striate). 



Var. microcatya (sp.), F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral, i. 200 ; stems slender 

 hardly flattened trader umbel, spikelets more slender, nut very small velate (i. e. 

 outermost cells withering and partly peeling off). Benfh. Fl. Austral, vii. 316. 

 'F. tenera, SoecTc. in Flora, Iviii. [1875] 111 (excl. var., not of Roem. Sf Sch.). 

 Kumaon, alt. 8000 ft., Strachey fy Winterbottom, n. 2; Sikkim, alt. 9500ft., J.D.H. 

 Bombay, Dalzell. Eastern Asia, Australia. 



This species admitted by Bentham, comes between F. complanata, Link, and F. 

 autumnalis, Eoem. & Sch., species whicb Boeckeler unites. 



Var. Kraussiana, (sp.) Hochst. in Flora, xxviii.757; stems slender obscurely flat- 

 tened under umbel, umbel more compact less compound often with 10-30 spikelets. 

 F. connectens, Thw. Enum. 349. Ceylon, Thwaites. China, Malaya, Afric. 



Var. fenestrata ; spikelets larger rusty-brown, glumes largfe laxly subpatent 

 obtuse shining, nut white fenestrate by the strongly reticulate persistent outermost 

 cells. Deccan Peninsula; Palirncottah, WigU (n. 2899). Roots fibrous. Stems 12- 

 16 in., tufted, conspicuously flattened at top. Leaves as long as f stem, in. broad, 

 tip subobtuse. Umbel and bracts nearly as in F. complanata, typ. Spikelets \ by 

 in., many-fld. * 



44. T. Thomson!!, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 37; stems 8-24 in., 

 leaves flat tip obtuse, umbel compound and supradecompound, spikelets 

 ellipsoid acute, style 3-fid, nut oblong-obovoid straw-colrd. verrucose or 

 subtuberculate obscurely transversely lineolate. F. complanata, Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. 393. Trichelostylis, sp. n. Serb. Ind. Or. S.f. Sf T. 



N.E. INDIA, alt. 500-40CO ft., from SIKKIM, ASSAM and Chota Kagpore to 

 MABTABAN and SHAN HILLS, common. DISTEIB. Tonquin, China. 



Glabrous. Soots fibrous. Stems upwards obscurely 4-angular, or sometimes 

 subcompressed. Leaves sometimes short 2-4 in., sometimes a foot, Umbel 2-6 in. 

 dfam., with sometimes 80 spikelets ; bracts 4-5, usually shorter than umbel. Spike- 

 lets f by J in. Nut as long as f glume. This species is near the large form of F. 

 complanata, Link, from which it mainly differs by the thicker spikelets and larger 

 nut (is probably often passed for F. diphylla, Vahl). 



45. F. Salbundia, Kunfh Enum. ii. 230; stems 1^-3 ft, leafless 4-5- 

 angular, umbel decompound with 120 ovoid testaceous spikelets, glumes 

 keeled rather lax, style 3-fid, nut obovoid yellow-brown opaque smooth or 

 slightly tuberculate. Trichelostylis Salbundia, Nees in Wight Contrib. 



