650 CLXXII. CYPERACE^:. (C. P, Clarke.) \_Fimlristylis. 



NEPAL ; Wallich. BURRAKUR ; Kurz. PEGU ; Kurz. PENANG; alt. 2500 ft., 

 Kunstler. DISTRIB. Malaya, China. 



Rhizome very short, woody, horizontal, densely leafy. Stems about 1 ft., 

 slender, angular, glabrous. Leaves scarcely as much as stem, T V in. broad, 

 minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous, tip obtuse. Umbel l-2f in. diam., with 

 about 10-20 spikelets; bracts ^-f in., usually hairy. Spikelets i-f by ^ in., 

 flattened ; lowest three glumes empty, lowest 2 shorter ; nut-bearing glumes 2-6, 

 subdistichous, upper glumes 3-6 male or sterile 3-several-ranked. Glumes sub- 

 mucronate, margins scarious, upwards often glandular. Stamens usually 2. Style 

 long, slender, glabrous, deciduous with pyramidal style-base ; branches linear. Nut 

 as long as 3- glume, subacutely trigonous, obtuse ; outermost cells somewhat lax, 

 sometimes almost papillose. 



55. r. fulvescens, Thw. Enum. 434; annual, glabrous, leaves as 

 long as i-f stem, otherwise nearly as F.fusca, var. ft longifolia. Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxxvii. 55. Abildgaardia fulvescens, Ttiw. I. c. 347. 



CEYLON ; Walker, Thtvaites (n. 679). 



Stems tufted. Umbel nearly as in F.fusca, or sometimes more loose, with pale- 

 cinnamon long-pedicelled spikelets; bracts ligulate scabrous. Spikelets - in. 

 broad, i.e. often rather broader than in F.fusca. 



56. P. cyperoides, Br. Prodr. 228; leaves several long narrow, 

 umbel compound, bracts short, glumes few-ranked boat-shaped acuminate 

 brown glandular, style 3-fid, nut oblong-obovoid pale transversely trabe- 

 culate. Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 317. F. biflora, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 

 393. Abildgaardia cyperoides, Nees in Wight Gontrib. 95 (in note). 

 Gussonea cyperoides, Presl. Bel. Hsenk. i. 183, t. 33 (see Benth. & Hook.f. 

 Gen. PI. 1049.) 



N. AUSTRALIA, PHILIPPINE, CAROLINE ISLES. 



Stems about 1 ft., slender (base thickened by horny sheaths) closely approximate 

 ou a very short rhizome. Leaves as long as | f stem, glabrous or minutely hairy. 

 Umbel 13^- in. diam., sometimes with 80 spikelets usually with much fewer, 

 glabrous or minutely hairy; bracts -1 in. Spikelets i by ^ in., flattened; lowest 

 2-3 glumes empty, Jowest 1-2 small ; nut-bearing glumes 2-4, distichous, upper 

 glumes 3-6, male or sterile, 3-several-ranked. Stamens often 3. Style long, 

 slender, deciduous with its hairy pyramidal style-base; branches linear. Nut as 

 long as f glume, round trigonous. California (Presl.) is an error for Manila. 



Var. cinnamometorum (sp.) Kunth Enum. ii. 229 ; roots fibrous, stems tufted, 

 nut shining somewhat polygonal, outermost cells transversely oblong superimposed 

 regularly in 7-11 vertical series on^ach face (i.e. nut 7-11-ribbed on each of its 3 

 faces). Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvii. 35. F. glabra, Steud. Syn. Cyp. Ill, chiefly. Scirpus 

 cinnumometorum, Vahl Enum. ii. 278. Trichelostylts cinnamometorum, Nees in 

 Linncea, ix. 290. Abildgaardia cinnamornetorurn, Thw. Enum. 347 (excl. syn. 

 fusca). Pegu and Ceylon ; China. Steudel's F. glabra is founded on Hohenacker 

 n. 131, a, which is this "cinnamometorum," mixed with F. tenera var. oxylepis ; 

 Steudel's description regards mostly cinnamometorum. 



57. P. actinoschoenus, C. B. Clarke ; leaves hardly any, spikelets 

 in one small dense head 4-1-fld., glumes about 6 few-ranked lower 

 subdistichous, style 3-fid, nut small obovoid trigonous. Actinoschoeaus 

 filiformis, Benth.^in Hook. Ic. PI. xiv. 33, t. 1346. Arthrostylis filiformis, 

 Thw. Enum. 352 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 524. 



CEYLON ; Thwaites (n. 3469), Beckett. 



Glabrous, perennial. Stems slender, 12-30 in. Leaves 0- in., setaceous, green, 

 close to base of stem. Spikelets up to 20 in a globose head - in. diam. ; bracts 

 0-i in., setaceous. Spikelets | in., usually 2-fld., lower flower alone perfecting a 



