1152 
BENGAL PLANTS. (Fimbristylis. 
Umbels bia few spikelets, never more than 20; nut never 
trabeculate 
Glumes pouty, adpressed, ovate-acuminate ; spikelets ellip- 
soid, becomi ing cylindric-lanceolate, usually 7-9; style longer 
than the nu 
Glumes Sale te tenera var. oxylepis. 
Glumes not mucronate ; leaves obtuse ...tenera var. obtusata. 
lumes concave, incurved, obtuse ; spikelets obtusely cuboid 
ae usually 20, often: fewer, sometimes only 1-2; style 
not exceeding the suk. in the upper flowers 2-fid ...... globulosa. 
Um te Scant and supradecompound, with very many sp! ike- 
lets, 50 to 150 or more; if few (occasionally 5-15 in F. quinque- 
angularis) the nut trabeculate : 
Nut slenderly trabeculate, ha outermost cells being transversely 
oblong ; spikelets under ‘25 in. lon 
Spikelets ellipsoid-lanceolate, eit 6—14-flowered 
pan wenne 
Spikelets globose or subcylindric, obtuse, many-flowere 
miliaced. 
Nut never trabeculate ; spikelets :25 in. long, or longer :— 
Bracts 2; spikelets very slender, under ‘1 in. in sues 
omplanata. 
_ Bracts 4-5; spikelets ellipsoid, -15 in. in dianistee ‘3 
Thomson. 
{Spikelets all, or nearly all, clustered, usually 2-5 to a cluster; 
glumes ovate-obtuse, with broad, scarious margins [p. 1151) 
junciformis. 
2451. Fimpristyiis Monosracuya Hassk.; F. B. I. vi. 649; E. D- 
F. 2838. ol, 
cirpus rege oe ee 
In most of the pro 
A glabrous, tufted bh sks stems 2-16 in. Beng. Mar 
mari; Santal. Nanha bindi mutha. 
2452. Fimpristyuis rusca Benth.; F. B. I. vi. 649. 
al. 
ng 
A slendee, glabrous herb; stems 12 in 
2458. Fimpristy.is pisticua Boeck. var. ae Clarke ; F. B. 1. 
2454. Foprisrytis rerracona R. Br.; F. B. I. vi. 631. 
vi, 651. 
N 
. Bengal. 
A slender, annual herb; stems 4-10 in. 
