Fimlnstijlis.'] CLXXII. OYPEEACEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) 649 



Sect. IY. ABILDGAARDIA (Genus) Vdhl Enum. ii. 296. Lower glumes 

 of spikelet distichous or nearly so, upper fertile glumes spirally placed. 

 (See also F. nigrobmnnea, sp. n. 49 above.) Spikelets not clustered. 



* Spikelets pale, nut large triquetrous base much narrowed. 



52. F. monostachya, HassJc. PL Jav. Ear. 61 ; stems leafy at base 

 with 1 (rarely 2-3) spikelet, nut-bearing glumes 2-3-stichous shortly 

 mucronate, style 3-fid, nut somewhat large obovoicb more or less tuberculate 

 straw-colrd. or pale-brown. Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 308. Cyperus mono- 

 stachyus, Linn. Mant. 180 ; Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 18, 1. 13, fig. 3. C. indicus, 

 Pers. Syn. i. 65. Scirpus schoenoides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 221. Abildgaardia 

 monostachya, Vahl Enum. ii. 296 ; Dalz. ft Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 286 ; Thw. 

 Enum. 347 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 53. A. laevigata, Link Jdhrb. iii. 

 81. A. Rottboelliana, Nees in Wight Contrib. 95. A. compressa, Presl. 

 JRel. Hsenk. i. 179. A. inddca, Nees in Linn&a, ix. 289. Abildgaardia, 

 Wall. Cat. 3491. 



Throughout warmer INDIA. DISTRIB. All warm regions. 



Glabrons. Rhizome 0, or very short. Stems 2-16 in., tufted, slender, angular. 

 Leaves as long as stem, narrow. Spikelet quasi-terminal (bract hardly any) by 

 4- in., or in some of Wallicb/s collections nearly twice these dimensions, compressed 

 with glumes distichous), or often twisted. Glumes ovate, acute, keel green, sides 

 straw-colrd. or yellow. Stamens 3 ; anthers linear-oblong not crested. Style long, 

 villous nearly to the base, deciduous with pyramidal style-base ; branches rather 

 short. Nut as long as ^-1 glume, base much contracted. 



53. P. tristachya* Thw. Enum. 434 (not of Br. or Nees} ; stern stout 

 leafy at base with 2-5 (rarely 1) large spikelets, nut-bearing glumes 2-3- 

 stichous shortly mucronate, style 3-fid, nut large obovoid tuberculate 

 ultimately brown-black. Cyperus triflorus, Linn. Mant. 62. Schcenus 

 cyperoides, Retz Obs. iv. 8. Abildgaardia tristachya, Vahl Enum. ii. 297 ; 

 Nees in Wight Contrib. 95 ; Thw. I. c. 347 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 54. 

 A. monostachya, var. HassJc. PI. Jav. Rar. 61. IsolepisP, Wall. Gat. 

 3492. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, frequent; Wight, &c. CEYLON; Thwaites. DISTEIB. 

 Warmer Africa. 



Stems 1-2-2 ft. Leaves as long as % stem, rigid. Spikelets 1 in., compressed, 

 often twisted. This species is altogether large than the common forms of F. mono- 

 stachya; from the large form of F. monostachya it does not differ much except by 

 its dark nut. 



** Spikelets brown, nut small base not muck narrowed. 



54. F. fusca, Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 1048; leaves several short 

 flat, umbel often compound, bracts short, glumes few-ranked boat- 

 shaped acute brown puberulous, style 3-fid, nut obovoid pale smooth 

 slightly verrucose. F. cinnamometorum, Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 132 (not KuniK). F. Kamphceveneri, Boeck. in Engler Bot. Jahrb. v. 505. 

 Gussonia pauciflora, Brongn. in Bot. Duperr. Voy.I7l,t. 34, B. Abildga- 

 ardiarusca, Nees in Wight Contrib. 95 ; Boeck. in Linncsa, xxxvii. 54. A. 

 pauciflora, Kunth JEnuwi. ii. 249. Schcenus puberulus, C. A. Meyer Gyp. 

 Nov. 2, t. 1. Rynchospora ? anomala, Steud. Syn. Gyp. 149; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 837. Isolepis locgispica, Steud. I.e. 104. Fimbristylis, Wall. 



Cat, 3530. 



