Fimbristylis^ Cyperacece. 5 7 



16. F. globulosa, Kunth, Enum. ii. 231 (1837). Hal-pan,* 5. 



Scir fins globosus, Moon, Cat. 6. TricJielostylis globulosa, Nees in 

 Wight, Contrib. 105. Thw. Enum. 349. C. P. 842. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 644. 



Rootstock short, stout, horizontal, root-fibres stout ; stem 

 6-18 in., rather stout, terete or compressed below, trigonous 

 or 4-5-angled above, angles smooth; 1. o, sheaths 1-6 in. r 

 obtuse, appressed, with narrow scarious brown margins, rarely 

 bearing a short limb, mouth very obliquely truncate ; umbels 

 small, simple or compound, rays few, rather stout, \-2\ in. r 

 erect or spreading, bearing few distant long- and short-pedi- 

 celled spikelets; bracts very short, subulate; spikelets \-\ in., 

 ovoid and obtuse, or globose, terete, pale brown, lowest empty 

 glumes very small, narrow, persistent or deciduous, rhachilla 

 stout, squarrose ; glumes closely imbricate, T V in. long, oblong, 

 cymbiform, broadly hyaline all round, dorsally convex, keel 

 obscurely 3-veined, vanishing far below the rounded tip ; 

 stam. 2-3, anth. rather stout, obtuse; nut -^V m -> globosely 

 obovoid, obtusely trigonous, obscurely striate and subtu- 

 bercled, pale brown, style as long as the nut, glabrous, base 

 subpyramidal, stigmas 3. 



In water, moist low country; common. Fl. most seasons. 



India, Malaya, Polynesia. 



17. P. insignis, Thw. Enum. 349 (1864). 



Thw. Enum. 433. F. Thwaitesii, Boeck. in Linntea, xxvii. 34. C. P, 



3Z l 7- 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 645. 



Rootstock very short, with wiry root-fibres ; stems 8-24 in., 

 slender, subtrigonous, deeply grooved, smooth ; 1. crowded on 

 the rootstock, much shorter than the stem, 5-7 by | in. or 

 narrower, fiat, rigid, tip rounded denticulate, margin very 

 narrowly recurved, smooth or scaberulous, opaque on both 

 surfaces, midrib beneath flat, sheath very short, coriaceous, 

 open ; umbel subsimple, of 3-5 trigonous stiff rays 1-3 in. 

 long, each bearing 1-3 large spikelets; bracts \-% in., subulate, 

 erect; spikelets -|-i in. by ^- A in. diam., oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute at both ends, terete, brown, lowest 2 glumes small, long- 

 cuspidate, empty, rhachilla stout, clothed with imbricating 

 wings ; glumes closely imbricate, j in. long, oblong, subacute, 

 cymbiform, cuspidate, coriaceous, keel slender, veins o; stam. 

 3, anth. very long, slender, tip conical ; nut hardly stipitate, 2V in. 

 long, broadly obcordate, trigonous, subtubercled, faces concave, 

 pale, style three times as long as the nut, slender, sparsely 

 villous, thickened base elongate, stigmas 3, rather short. 



* See also Cy perns Haspcn, p. 26. 



