FimbristylisP\ Cyperacece. 5 3 



Damp places in the low country, mostly in the dry region ; rather 

 common. Fl. most of the year. 



Also in Peninsular India, Bengal, Malaya, and the Mauritius. 



10. F. ferrug-inea, Vahl, Enum. ii. 291 (1806). 

 Thw. Enum. 348. C. P. 848. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 638. 



A densely tufted perennial ; rootstock short, root-fibres 

 stout and slender; stem \-2\ ft., rather stout, subtrigorious, 

 grooved, smooth; 1. o, or few, short, very narrow, glabrous or 

 hairy, lower sheaths coriaceous, split, upper scarious, truncate ; 

 umbels simple or subcompound, rays few, usually very short, 

 rarely §- in. long, stout, spreading; bracts very short, striate, 

 slender; spikelets few, \-\ in., oblong-ovoid, terete, somewhat 

 hoary, pale red-brown, rarely bracteolate by a small ovate or 

 lanceolate persistent lowest glume; rhachilla stout, angular, 

 with large pits; glumes laxly imbricate, \ in. long, orbicular- 

 ovate, cymbiform, minutely cuspidate, chartaceous, recurved, 

 pale brown, keel green; stam. 2-3, anth. very long, ^o m -> 

 obtuse; nut stipitate, ^ in. long, broadly obovate or almost 

 obcordate, much compressed, biconvex, quite smooth, yellowish 

 or pale brown, style twice as long as the nut, villous to the 

 slightly dilated truncate base, stigmas 2. 



Var. (?) tenuissima, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 639. 



' Stem. 16 in., very slender, slightly flattened, 1. 1-6, very 

 slender, bracts \ in., spikelets 1-3, pale, \ in. long, glumes 

 nearly glabrous, furnished with obscure round and red glands, 

 nut as in F. ferruginea. — This looks like a distinct species, 

 but only known from one sheet of specimens.' — Clarke, I. c. 



Wet places in the low country, especially in brackish water at mouth 

 of rivers ; common. Var. /3, Trincomalie (Mrs. Marriott in Herb. 

 Delessert). Fl. most seasons. 



All hot countries. 



I have not seen specimens of var. (3. — J. D. H. 



it. F. diphylla, Vahl, Enum. ii. 289 (ii 

 Herm. Mus. 26. Fl. Zeyl. n. 40. Scirfus dichotomies, L. Sp. 50. 

 Thw. Enum. 348. C. P. 839, 840. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 636. 



Rootstock hardly any, or up to 1 in. long, stout, root- 

 fibres rather stout; stem 1-2 ft, slender, angled, grooved, 

 quite smooth; 1. as long as the stem or shorter, T \r— 1- in. broad, 

 linear, coriaceous, rather rigid, serrulate towards the acute tip, 

 margins scaberulous, striate above, obscurely 2-veined beneath, 

 sheath short, glabrous or pubescent ; umbel simple or com- 

 pound (or spikelets in a compact head), rays not many, very 



