200 CYPERACER (Clarke). [Fimbristylis. 
Sect. IJ. TricurnosTyLis (Genus), Lestib. —Lowest fertile glumes spirally 
imbricate, Umbe odie orsimple. Style 3-fid. 
Whole plant ha we se ... (5) exilis. 
Glabrous. Spikelets pedicelled, solitary ... (4) pean 
Glabrous. Spike n dense heads eed ... (7) obtusifolia. 
Sect. Fae ih ngage “ee 1s), vat — Lowest Hah dds: distichous, or 
ery nearly so. Stem bearing 1 (rarely 2-3) sp 
Spikelet peers Ape patiaen ae ... (8) monostachys. 
rs 1, F. squarrosa (Vahl, Enum. ii. 289); annual, puberulous or 
nearly glabrous ; stem 2-8 in. long ; leaves a the length of the 
stem, 51; in. broad ; umbel usually ‘compound ; bracts 3-4, often as 
long as ae umbel, ‘similar to the leaves ; spikelets all peilicelled, t 
by zy in., dense ; glumes elliptic, keeled, dusky, the 3 nerves coales- 
cing tees a curved excu peclnh mucro; stamens usually 2 
pee ; branches 2; rae 1 as a as the glume, eee biconvex, 
off with the deciduous style. Zunth, Enum. ii. 2234; Boe, in 
Linnea, xxxvii. 10; C. B. vigsahens ex Hook. t.. Ft. Brit. Ind. vi. 635. 
Ff. Ee lonii, Nees in ’ Linnea, i Ee. x. 145; Kunth, eraily ii, 226. 
Scirpus squarrosus, Poir. Encye. yee v. 100, not of 
Coast Receion: Clanwilliam Div.; Doorn eo below 1000 ft., Drege’ 
gence, a se Ae ai River, below 100 ft., Drége ! 
: Clanwilliam Div. ; near whe Oliphants River, below 
000 | ft. Fahek. 779 par OF Ecklon and dl Zeyh her 
In all tropical and warm-temperate regions. 
2. F. dichotoma (Vahl, Enum. ii. 287); annual, puberulous or 
minutely pubescent ; stem 2-8 in. long; leaves often as long as tn 
stem, 4; in. broad ; umbel usually ett ound (or decompound) ; 
bracts 3-4, often as long as the umbel, similar to the leaves ; splke- 
Boeckeler) ; style nearly always hairy, branches 2, shortish ; nut 3 
the length of the glume, obovoid, biconvex, pale or scarcely brown, 
with 5-9 ribs on each face due to the cells being vertically super- 
posed. Kunth, Enum. ii. 225; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvil 12 
partly ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. ae Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 635. Scirpus 
sy ere Linn. Sp. Plant , 74; Rotth. Deser. et Le. 57, 
t. 13, fig. 1 (ef. Hoppe in Flore. igss, 177-181). 
WESTERN REGION: Cowiilinn Div.; near the Oliphants River, below 
1000 ft., Zeyher, 1779 partly 
ogee from Psi and West Africa to Hong Kong and New South Wales. 
difficn't to distinguish from F. diphylla. 
This very eed 
we aeawcn s Litrorr of ‘ichotoma and his American examples are ~ — : 
Wa 
his Ay up : 
to YY In ichotoma, as here understood, the glumes are d etly 
keeled, ie that the Ac an numerous short longitudinal angles. 
3. F. diphylla (Vahl, ae ii as ; ees or more or less 
pubescent; stem commonly 12-20 in. long; umbel compound, 
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