58 Cyperacece. \FimbHstylis. 



Moist low country; rather rare. Near Colombo; Pasdun Korale; 

 between Negombo and Kurunegala (Thwaites). There are specimens 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit, from Moon, collected near Kalutara. Fl. Feb., Aug. 



Borneo, China. 



18. r. leptoclada, Be?ith. Fl. Hongk. 393 (1S61). 

 F. retusa, Thw. Enum. 349. C. P. 3760. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 647. 



Rootstock small, many-leaved, root-fibres capillary; stems 

 6-24 in., densely tufted, very slender, almost filiform, angular, 

 grooved; 1. shorter than the stem, 3-12 in., very narrow, -j T in. 

 broad or less, obtuse, flat, margins smooth, sheath 2-4 in., 

 upper ending in leaves, margins not scarious ; umbel sub- 

 compound, contracted, subcapitate, i— § in. diam., of few, 

 short rays, bearing dense clusters of small sessile dark brown 

 spikelets ; bracts rarely longer than the umbel ; spikelets 

 ^-y in., shortly oblong or ovoid, obtuse, terete, many-fld., sub- 

 pruinose, 2 lowest glumes like the upper, but empty, rhachilla 

 slender, deeply pitted, wings caducous ; glumes closely im- 

 bricate, T V in. long, broadly oblong, tip broad, rounded, hyaline, 

 emarginate or 2-lobed, deeply keeled, sides appressed, punc- 

 tate, keel not reaching the tip, veins obscure; stam. 1, anth. 

 rather short, apiculate ; nut ^V in. long, obovoid, trigonous, 

 verrucose, pale, at length dark grey, style as long as the nut, 

 stout, glabrous, base tumid, stigmas 3, longer than the style. 



Moist low country; rather common. Galle; Colombo; Pasdun and 

 Reigam Korales, &c. Fl. 



Also Malacca, Borneo, S. China. 



19. F. asperriraa, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvii. 40 (1871). 

 F. chcEtorrhiza, Thw. Enum. 349 (part). C. P. S37 (part). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 643. 



Rootstock stout, horizontal, woody, root-fibres stout; 

 stem 1J-3 ft, slender, trigonous or plano-convex, smooth or 

 angles scabrous towards the top, deeply grooved ; 1. many, 

 radical, 6 in. to 2 ft. long, iV _ i in. broad, acute, flat, coriaceous, 

 margins scabrid, sheaths short, open, brown, margins of upper 

 scarious ; umbel effuse, compound, loosely umbellulate, primary 

 rays up to 3 in. long, spreading, secondary bearing many small 

 pedicelled spikelets; bracts very long, up to 10 in. ; spikelets 

 scattered, ^-£ in. long, oblong or ovoid, angular, obtuse or 

 acute, pale brown, few-fld., lowest glume not bracteiform, 

 rhachilla winged ; glumes T V in. long, broadly ovate, cymbi- 

 form, acute, mucronate by the green excurrent, 3-5-veined 

 keel, margins broadly hyaline, in a mature state the red-brown 

 basal portions on each side of the midrib separate, and are 

 deciduous or adhere to the rhachilla, the glume then presents 

 a lunate base on each side of the keel; stam. 3, anth. with a 



