Fimbri stylish Cyperacece. 6 







distichous, upper not ; rhachilla slender, wings caducous ; 

 glumes \-\ in., coriaceous, triangular-ovate, cuspidate, keel 

 slender, margins not hyaline; stam. 3, anth. long, slender, tip 

 subulate ; nut -£§ in. long, turgidly obovoid, trigonous, faintly 

 warted, angles rounded, pale yellow-brown, style not twice as 

 long as the nut, base bulbous, stigmas 3, very slender. 



Low country; rather rare. Lagalla (Brodie) ; Hewesse and Hini- 

 duma, abundant (Thwaites); Ratnapura. Marshes in the Western and 

 Central Province, up to 5600 ft., and dry patanas in Uva, 2500-4400 ft. 

 (Pearson). Fl. Aug., Sept. 



Eastern and Southern India, Cambodia. 



27. F. complanata, Lmk, Hort. Berol. i. 292 (1827). 

 Thw. Enum. 349, 433. C. P. 3220. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 646. 



Rootstock small, hard, creeping, leafy, root-fibres wiry; 

 stem 2-3 ft., flattened, 2-edged, \ in. broad or less, deeply 

 furrowed and ribbed, quite smooth ; 1. very many, crowded 

 round the base of the stem, and shorter than it, erect, linear, 

 up to \ in. broad, coriaceous, tip obliquely narrowed, obtuse 

 or subacute, margins scaberulous, sheath coriaceous, margins 

 scarious; umbel decompound, effuse, 1-3 in. broad, rays 

 few or many, flattened, loosely corymbosely branched, 

 branches bearing many small, shortly pedicelled, brown 

 spikelets; bracts one-half as long as the umbel, one leaf-like, 

 erect, the rest subulate; spikelets \-\ in., oblong or ovoid- 

 oblong, few-fid., lower glumes more or less distichous, lowest 

 narrower, subulate or cuspidate, empty, rhachilla short, wings 

 deciduous ; glumes \ in., oblong, obtuse, mucronate, sides 

 appressed together, dark brown with a deep acute pale keel, 

 margins not hyaline ; stam. 3, anth. very long, obtuse ; nut yV in, 

 long, stipitate, turgidly obovoid, 3-gonous, minutely warted, 

 pale, style twice as long as the nut, slender, glabrous, base 

 conical, stigmas 3, long (in one specimen the nut very com- 

 pressed and stigmas 2.) 



Moist low country ; common. Maturata; N. Eliya; Kelebokka. 

 In all hot countries. 



28. P. K.raussiana, Hochst. in Flora, xxviii. 757 (1845). 

 F. connectens, Thw. Enum. 349 and 433. C. P. 2967. 



F. complanata, var. Kraussiana, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 646. 



Rootstock woody, creeping, root-fibres stout, wiry; stem 

 8-18 in., many-leaved at the base, slender, trigonous, com- 

 pressed, striate ; 1. shorter than the stem, from almost filiform 

 to I in. broad, erect, acute, striated and i-veined beneath, 

 margins obscurely scaberulous, incurved, sheaths with scarious 



