648 CLXXII. CYPERAofe. (C. B. Clarke.) [Fimbristylis. 



spikelets in the typical form, but examples with many solitary few clustered spike- 

 lets occur, - in., brown or chestnut-colrd. , many-fld. Glumes ovate, obtuse, 

 margins conspicuously scarious. Stamens 3. Style longer than nut, slender, 

 slightly villous below trifurcation, deciduous with the small pyramidal style-base ; 

 branches long. Nut as long as i glume, not (or obscurely) striate. F. Haenkei, 

 Dietr. is the older (but less certain) name for this species. The Californian habitat 

 given by Boeckeler is probably erroneous. 



Var. abbreviata (sp.) Boeck. in Flora, xli. 601; spikelets some paired but mostly 

 solitary. F. chastorrhiza, Thw. Enum. 349 (partly). Ceylon ; Thwaites, Gardner. 

 Deccan Peninsula ; Wallich n. 3520 A. (partly}. Anamallay Mts. ; Beddome. 



Var. lattifolia (sp.) Kunth 1. c. 239; leaves -2 by in, flat curved and twisted, 

 spikelets rather many (rarely all) solitary. F. falcata, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvii. 

 48. F. torta, Kunth I.e. 24; Soeck. 1. c. 31. Trichelostylis torta and T. latifolia, 

 Nees '"in Wight Contrib. 105, 106. Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3498. Deccan 

 Peninsula j Wight, Wallich. Ceylon ; Walker. 



49. P. nigrobrunnea, TTiw. JEnum. 434; stems 8-20 in., leaves 

 several stout obtuse, umbel simple compound or decompound, spikelets 

 some clustered (rarely all solitary), glumes shining hard dark-brown lower 

 few-ranked or obscurely distichous, style 3-fid, nut obovoid yellow-brown 

 verrucose or nearly smooth. F. subtetrastachya, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 

 50. F. pycnostachya, Hance in Journ. Hot. xv. 338. Abildgaardia 

 Eragrostis, Boeck. I. c. 55 (partly, not of Nees fy Meyen). Fimbristylis, 

 Wall. Cat. 3523. Trichelostylis sp. n. 20, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.&T. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 3-5000 ft. MUNEYPOOR; alt. 3500 ft., Watt. DECCAN 

 PENINSULA; Courtallum, Wight. NICOBARS. CEYLON, Thwaites, &c. DISTEIB. 

 Cambodia. 



Glabrous. Rhizome hardly any. Leaves as long as ^-f stem, by in. broad. 

 Umbel ^-6 in. diam. ; bracts about ^ in. ; spikelets in the common Khasia form. 2-10 

 to a cluster, in the Ceylon form solitary. Spikelets ^ by i in., or sometimes much 

 smaller. Glumes ovate, acute, keeled, adpressed. Stamens generally 2. Style 

 as long as nut, slightly villous' below trifurcation. Nut as long as f glume. This 

 bpecies might perhaps be arranged in Sect. Abildgaardia. 



50. P. ulig-inosa, Steud. Syn. Gyp. 109; stems 4-8 in. slender, 

 leaves almost bristle-like, spikelets clustered black-chestnut, style 3-fid, 

 nut obovoid smooth pale slightly narrowed at top. Boeck;. in Linnsea, 25, 

 2to. 



NILGHIRI HILLS ; alt. 6-7000 ft., Perrottet, &c. 



Leaves as long as -- stem, 2^5^ in. broad. Umbel simple or often reduced 

 to a single cluster sometimes to a single spikelet. Otherwise as F. nigro-brunnea, 

 Thw., of which this may be a small mountain state. 



51. P. dig itata, Boeck. in Flora, Ixi. 35 ; stems 2-5 in. bristle-like 

 base bulbous, spikelets 3-8 straw-colrd. in a subterminal head, style 

 3-fid, nut obovoid smooth straw-colrd. or finally brownish. Benth. Sc 

 Hook.f. Gen. PI. iii. 1050. Scirpus Lawianus, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 

 479. Trichelostylis digitata, H.f. $ T. ms. 



BOMBAY ; Dalzell. CANAEA; Law, Young ; Belekerri, Talbot. 



Glabrous. Leaves as long as \ stem, bristle-like. Bracts 2-1, shorter than 

 head. Spikelets - by^-y-in., 6-18-fld. Glumes ovate-oblong, scarcely acute, 

 keeled, chaffy, nearly 1-colrd. Style nearly as long as nut, glabrous, deciduous, 

 with small pyramidal style-base, branches linear. Nut as long as glume, sessile, 

 round-trigonous, obtuse at top. 



