c6 CyperaceCE. \Fimbristylis. 



excurrent 3-veined keel, sides hyalines; stam. 3, anth. obtuse; 

 nut shortly stipitate, T V in. long, obovoid, obtusely trigonous, 

 tubercled, pale, style as long as the nut, more or less villous, 

 stigmas 3, longer than the style. 



Low country in grass ; common. Peradeniya. Fl. most seasons. 



Also in India, China, Malaya, Australia. 



A very variable plant in India, in stature, foliage, and infl. The 

 description is taken from Ceylon specimens (C. P. 838). Clarke, who 

 retains it in Fl. B. Ind. as a species, cites Arnott's authority for its being 

 hardly separable from F. miliacea. Of Clarke's var. crassa (Fl. B. Ind. 

 vi. 644), differing in its slender habit, woody rootstock, and rather larger 

 ellipsoid spikelets, I find no Ceylon specimen in Herb. Peraden., Brit. 

 Mus., or Kew, nor can Mr. Clarke refer me to any. It is the F . globalosa, 

 var. afihylla of Miquel, and may possibly be that plant. — J. D. H. 



15. P. miliacea, Vahl, Ennm. ii. 287 (1806). Mudu-halpan, S r 



Scirpus miliaceus, Burm.; Moon, Cat. 6. Trichelostylis miliacea, 

 Nees in Wight, Contrib. 103. Thw. Enum. 348. C. P. 836. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 644. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 9, f. 2. Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 

 t. 5, f. 2. 



Annual, tufted, glabrous, leafy, root-fibres slender ; stem 

 6-24 in., slender, below obtusely angled, triquetrous above; 

 1. shorter than the stem, very slender, T V in. broad or less, linear, 

 tapering to a firm point, margins nearly smooth, sheaths sub- 

 distichous, margins scarious ; umbel decompound, rays suberect 

 or spreading, filiform, bearing very many scattered very small 

 pedicelled spikelets ; bracts filiform or capillary, much shorter 

 than the umbels ; spikelets to~\ m -> ovoid or globose, terete, 

 obtuse, pale or. dark brown, rhachilla stout, naked, pitted; 

 glumes not numerous, closely imbricate, ^V in. long, orbicular- 

 ovate, cymbiform, obtuse; membranous, keel obscurely 

 veined, reaching the tip, but not excurrent ; stam. 1-3, anth. 

 obtuse ; nut minutely stipitate, ¥ V m - long* obovoid, obtusely 

 trigonous, white pale or brownish, tubercled, style about as 

 long as the nut, glabrous, base globose, stigmas 3, about as 

 long as the style. 



Var. cong-esta. Trim. mss. 



Stems 3-6 in., stout, triquetrous throughout, umbels 

 reduced to globose entire or lobed terminal heads of sessile 

 compacted spikelets, with rarely a ray terminated by another 

 smaller head. 



In the water of paddy fields, &c; common. Var. congesta, Peradeniya.. 

 Fl. all the year. 



All hot countries. 



Very closely allied to F. qiiinqiiangularis, having similar 1. and 

 spikelets, but the glumes are not mucronate, are less keeled, the rachilla. 

 is not winged, and the style is quite glabrous. 



