62 CyperaceCB. \Fimbristylis~ 



and I can find no other difference between the two species than that the 

 Ceylon plant is an annual, whereas the Australian is a perennial, with a 

 creeping rootstock. Both are conspicuous by the scabrid glumes, which 

 scabridity Clarke describes as glandular. I follow Trimen, who, how- 

 ever, in keeping up cinnamometoram in the list of species prepared for 

 this work, observes that it may be a variety of cyperoides. 



25. F. fulvescens, Thw. Enum. 434 (1864). 



Abildgaardia fulvescens, Thw. Enum. 347. F.fusca, Trim. Syst. Cat- 

 101 (?Nees). C. P. 679. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 650. 



Annual; densely tufted and leafy, root-fibres stout and 

 slender, black; stem 6-18 in., slender, deeply grooved; 1. very 

 many, crowded, much shorter than the stem, erect and re- 

 curved, linear, obtuse, flat, |- in. broad or narrower, coriaceous, 

 tip triangular, acute, margins scabrid, sheaths very short, 

 open, coriaceous; umbel 1-2 in. diam., subsimple, rays 3-5,. 

 J- 1 in., slender, each with 1-3 long-pedicelled brown 

 spike! ets; bracts very short, stiff, subulate, scabrid; spikelets 

 i\-\ in., flattened, ovate or oblong, acute, glabrous or 

 puberulous, lowest 2 glumes narrowest, cuspidate, empty,, 

 rhachilla slender, wings caducous; glumes all distichous, 

 \~y in., coriaceous, broadly triangular-ovate, acute, apiculate, 

 ciliolate, keel nearly straight, slender, scaberulous, margins 

 not hyaline; stam. 3, anth. very narrow, acute; nut minutely 

 stipitate, J^ in. long, globosely obovoid, trigonous, sub- 

 tubercled, style very long, slender, glabrous, base bulbous, 

 stigmas 3, short. 



Low country ; rather rare. Reigam Korale (Thwaites) ; Hantane ;. 

 Matale; Doluwa Kande. 



Endemic. 



Very near F. fusca, Nees, of Burma and Malaya, differing in the 

 broader spikelets with longer pedicels and glabrous glumes, which are 

 as distichous as those of a Cypetus. 



26. F. nigrotorunnea, Thw. Enum. 434 (1864). 



C. P. 3779. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 648. 



Rootstock short, hard, densely leafy, root-fibres wiry ; stem 

 6-24 in., slender, trigonous and deeply grooved, smooth or 

 subscaberulous; 1. very many, much shorter than the stem, 

 3-18 in. long, by \ in. broad or narrower, erect and recurved, 

 coriaceous, linear, tip rounded or triangular and acute, 

 margins smooth, sheaths open, coriaceous, lower dark brown, 

 shining; umbel simple or compound, rays 3-6, \-2 in., 

 slender, bearing few or many rather distant brown, glabrous 

 spikelets; bracts very short, rigid, erect; spikelets \-\ in., 

 compressed, ovoid or oblong, few- or many-fld., lower glumes 



