•64 CyperaceCB. \Fimbristylis. 



margins; umbels small, subsimple, 1-2 in. broad, rays few, 

 \-\\ in., bearing terminal fascicles of 3-8, sessile or very 

 shortly pedicelled, small, dark brown, opaque spikelets; bracts 

 several, erect, one linear very rarely longer than the umbel, 

 the rest very short, subulate; spikelets \-\ in., oblong or 

 linear-oblong, compressed, red-brown, lower on one face dis- 

 tichous, lowest 2 small, empty, cuspidate, rhachilla short, 

 wings caducous ; glumes \ in., broadly oblong, tip rounded, 

 not mucronate, keel obtuse, smooth or scaberulous, vanishing 

 beneath the tip, margins subhyaline ; stam. 3, arfth, slender, 

 subacute; nut ■£% in. long, trigonously obovoid, 3-ribbed, very 

 obscurely warted or quite smooth, pale straw-col'd., style 

 slender, longer than the nut, glabrous, base conical, stigmas 3, 

 slender. 



Montane zone above 4000 ft. Maturata and Nuwara Eliya. Mansa 

 Kelle, Kelebokka (Ferguson). Horton Plains, 7200 ft. (Pearson). Fl. 

 Aug. 



China, Malaya, Africa. 



Differs from F. comfilanata, in the rounded tips of the flowering 

 glumes , which are not mucronate, and the trigonous stem. Clarke 

 perhaps rightly reduces it to a var. of complanata. Thwaites regarded 

 it as distinct. Trimen, from a note, appeared to be doubtful. 



29. XV junciformis, Kunth, Enum. ii. 239 (1837). 



F. chatorrhiza, Kunth, Thw. Enum, 349 (part). C. P. 970, 837 (part). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 647. 



Rootstock stout, woody, short or creeping, many-leaved, 

 root- fibres stout, wiry ; stem 4-18 in., tufted, rigid, 4-5 angled 

 or compressed, deeply grooved ; 1. crowded round the base of 

 the stem, short, 2-4 in., spreading and recurved, linear, 

 *tr~\ in - broad, flat, coriaceous, tip triangular, acute, margins 

 scaberulous, sheath very short, coriaceous ; umbel compound, 

 rays few, 1-3 in. long, very slender, bearing distant or clustered 

 small chestnut-brown spikelets ; bracts 2-4, much shorter 

 than the umbel, erect, rigid ; spikelets \-\ in., solitary or 

 clustered, oblong or ovoid, few-fid., red-brown, 2 lowest glumes 

 distichous, lowest empty, rhachilla rather stout, wings 

 caducous ; glumes T V in., triangular-ovate, subacute, mucronate, 

 rather membranous, keel slender, margins pale, hyaline ; 

 stam. 3, anth. long, acuminate; nut minutely stipitate, ^V in- 

 long, obovoid, trigonous, 3-ribbed, verruculose, white, style 

 larger than the nut, stout, pubescent above, base bulbous, ' 

 stigmas 3, short. 



In grassy places ; apparently very common. 

 Throughout India, Madagascar, Philippine Is. 



Clarke (Fl. B. Ind.) has two varieties, natives of S. India and Ceylon, 

 var. abbreviata (F. abbreviata, Boeck.; F. chcetorhiza, Thiv.), with mostly 



