1150 BENGAL PLANTS. (Fimbristylis. 
elongate. Fruit an obovoid, biconvex or trigonous, very rarely 
cylindric nut, the deciduous style leaving no scar on the nu 
Lower glumes of the spikelet oyealny or wait eee upper fertile 
glumes spirally disposed ; spikelets not clus 
Spikelets pale ; nut large, neaianime ; ae we narrowed 
monostachya. 
i opie alaelp’, : er small, obovoid, base not much narrowed :— 
Nu hree-cornered ; glumes fare dee with scarious 
margins, often hen ndular upwards ; stamens usually 2 ......... uscd. 
Nut obtusely three-cornered ; glumes subobtuse, densely minutely 
hairy ; sou ns often 3 disticha var. Kurzii. 
Lower glumes of the spikelet i on all sides like the upper :— 
t. -fid; nut 2-convex :—{p. 1151 
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near-oblong, curved, reticulate, straw-coloured ...fetragona. 
Nut obovoid, obtuse :-— 
Nut eight wavy or wrinkled acuminata, 
Nut smooth, reticulate :— 
Spikelets not exceeding one-third inch ......... polytrichoides. 
Spikelets about one-half inch long 
polytrichoides var. halophila. 
~ Stems with more than one spikelet, or if with only one (often so in 
F. schenoides and F’. sub-bispicata) the nut white :— 
+Spikelets all hohe: eae! (often so in F. hebays paired, and 
then su — ; or some clustered (occasionally in F. diphylla ° 
and o: in F. spatha on, but then (F. diph ylla) with the nut 
ou aeahaty striate on each face or (F. spathacea) with the nut 
Stems with few, sometimes only one «ig glumes obtuse, 
Spikelets ovoid, -3—-6 in. long schoenoides. 
Spikelets ae “8-1 in. long subbispicata. 
tems with many spikelets (in depauperated specimens casually 
few or only one sikelet may syeai but then either the ee 
are acute, mueronate, or aristate; or the nut is longitu 
striate, or if smooth is dusky ; if ote smooth and pale, and the 
= obtuse, then these incurved at apex) :— 
Style-base with many long, pendent hairs; glumes shortly 
aristate, squarrose or subsquarrose; umbel compound 
squarrosa. 
Style-base shortly hairy or glabrous :— 
