Fimbristyles.'\ CYPERACEi^. ' 393 



2 -cleft, glabrous or the branches slightly ciliate. Nut sessile, dark-coloured, 

 smooth or minutely tuberculate. — F. jimciformis, Munro in Seem. Bot. Her. 

 422, not of Nees. 



Hongkong, Hance. In the neighbouring Samtong Island, Wright. In the Indian Penin- 

 sula, in Bengal, and some other parts of India. The spikelets although crowded are distinct, 

 not in detached clusters as in the true F.juncifolius, 



11. P. coxnplanata^ Link ; Kimth, Enum. ii. 228. Stems 1 to 1^ ft. 

 high, stilt" and distinctly flattened. Leaves glaucous, firm, obtuse, 1 to 1^ 

 lines broad, usually much shorter than the stem. Umbel compound, like that 

 of F. diphyUa, with 1 to 3 short stilf erect leafy bracts. Spikelets usually 

 numerous, 3 to 4 lines long. Glumes brown, pointed, usually wath narrow 

 scarious edges. Style 3-cleft, glabrous. Nut sessile, minutely tuberculate. 



Hongkong, Harhind, Wright. "Widely spread over tropical Asia, occurring also in Africa 

 nd in tropical Brazil. 



12. F. xniliacea, VaJd ; KmitJi, Enum. ii. 230. Stems slender, attain- 

 ing 1 to 2 ft. in height, more or less flattened and acutely 4-angled. Leaves 

 distichous at the base, narrow-linear, shorter than the stem, ending in long 

 fine points. Umbel compound, with 1 to 3 short fine leafy bracts. Spikelets 

 numerous, ovoid-globular, seldom above 1 line long. Style 3-cleft, ciliate to- 

 wards the top. Nut sessile, slightly striate and tuberculate. 



Hongkong, Hance, Wright. Widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa. In Wrighfs 

 and Wilford's collections are a few dwarf specimens scarcely 3 in. high. 



13. F. leptoclada, Benth., n. sp. A densely tufted slender species, 

 apparently annual. Stems filiform, 6 to 8 in. high. Leaves filiform, rather 

 shorter. Spikelets about 1 line long, obtuse, in clusters of 4 to 8, of which 

 there are in our specimens always 2, 1 sessile, with a leafy bract of 4 to 6 

 6 lines, the other pedunculate. Glumes brown, very obtuse and emarginate, 

 strongly keeled, slightly scarious and minutely ciliate on the edge. Stamen 1. 

 Style 3-cleft, glabrous or nearly so, bidbous at the base. Nut sessile, but 

 only seen in a very young state. 



Hongkong, Wright. Not seen in any other collection. From the remarkable glumes it 

 must be very near to the F. ciliolata, Steud., from Java; but Steudcl's character differs in 

 too many other points for mc to venture on referring our species to his without actual com- 

 parison. 



7. ISOLEPIS, Br. 



Characters and habits of Scirpus, except that there are no hypogynous scales. 



A considerable geuus, having the same vnde range as Scirpus, and might more natiu'ally 

 be re-amalgamated with some of the sections of that genus. 



Spikelets about 2 lines long, in a dense terminal globular head. Stem and 



leaves subulate 1. /. harhata. 



Spikelets 3 to 4 lines long, few together in an apparently lateral cluster. 



Leaves very short or none 2. /. supitia. 



1. I. barbata, -Sr. ; Kuuth, Fnnm.ii. 20S. Stems tufted, veiy slender, 

 6 to 10 in. high. Leaves shorter, subidate. Spikelets narrow, acute, about 

 2 lines long, in a dense terminal globular head, with 2 to 4 subulate leafy 

 bracts longer than the head. Glumes acute, with a strong green keel, brown 



