60 Cyperacece. \Flmbristylis;. 



lowest glumes longer, cuspidate, empty, rhachilla slender, 

 wings persistent; glumes loosely imbricate, subdistichous, . 

 coriaceous, triangular-ovate, acute, cuspidate, keel slender, 

 margins not hyaline ; stam. 3, anth. long, subacute ; nut ys 

 in., globosely pyriform, narrowed into a stout stipes, trigonous, 

 3-ribbed, tubercled, straw-col'd., style not twice as long as the 

 nut, stout, pubescent, down to and on the bulbous base,, 

 stigmas 3, short. 



In grass in the low country ; common. Fl. in most months. 

 In all hot countries. 



22. P. pentaptera, Kunth, Enam. ii. 229 (1837). 



Triclielostylis fientaptera, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 105. F. Salbwidia, 

 Thw. Enum. 349 (non Kunth). C. P. 823, 843. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 645. 



Rootstock shortly creeping, woody, root-fibres stout; stems 

 2-5 ft., slender, triquetrous, deeply grooved, leafless, glabrous 

 or pilose; 1. o, or in separate shoots, or in young plants very 

 slender, pilose sheaths of the flg. stems 2-6 in. long, mouth and 

 sides broadly scarious, sometimes produced into a scarious 

 flaccid limb; umbels small, compound, 1-3 in. long and broad, 

 open, rays 3-10, slender, with many solitary, pedicelled, dark 

 brown spikelets; bracts very small, subulate; spikelets \-\ in., 

 compressed, trigonous, oblong or ovate-oblong, few-fid.; lowest 

 empty glumes cuspidate, rhachilla stout, wings persistent ; 

 glumes distichous on one face of the spikelet, ^-i in. long, 

 broadly ovate, subacute, keel reaching the tip but hardly 

 excurrent, margins very narrowly hyaline; stam. 2-3, anth. 

 long, narrow; nut ^crri" m -> stipitate, globose or globosely 

 obovoid, pale or dark brown, surface uneven, style rather 

 longer than the nut, glabrous, base conical, stigmas as long 

 as the style. 



Patanas of the montane zone, 4-7000 ft. ; common. 



Also in S. India. 



There are in Herb. Peraden., in the cover with F. cinnamouietorum, 

 specimens of this, or of a closely allied species, with smaller spikelets, 

 mucronate glumes, a nut only -£§ in. long, and 2 occasionally bipartite, 

 filiform stigmas. 



23. P. monticola, Stend. Syn. Cyp. in (1855). 



F. teniiifolia, Thw. Enum. 434. C. P. 3780, 851 (in part). 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 642. 



Very slender, leafy, densely tufted, root-fibres filiform ; 

 stems 6-12 in., erect, filiform, obtusely trigonous, striate, 

 flexuous ; 1. many at the base of the stem, shorter or nearly as 

 long as the stem and as slender or more so, acute, concave, 

 dorsally rounded, strongly ribbed, margins distantly scabrid, 



