634 CLixii. CTPERACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [_FimbriatyUs, 



Sect. II. DlCHELOSTTLis, Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 309 (not Diehostylis 

 [Genus] Nees). Lowest fertile glnmes of the spikelet spirally imbricated; 

 stems with many or several (depauperated examples not rarely with 1) 

 spikelet ; style 2-fid ; nut biconvex ; style usually flattened from front to 

 back, often villous below its bifurcation. — This section contains all such 

 species as are neither JEleocharoides nor Ahildgaardia, and have only 2 

 branches to the style. In this section the style is ■never 3-fid (except F. 

 stolonifera, var. j3). Compare, among the species placed in Trichelostylis, 

 F. fflobulosa, and F. cymosa in which 2-fid styles sometimes occur. 



Series A. Spikelets all (or nearly all) solitary — except in F. rigidmla 

 often paired, in F. diphylla (and in other species) occasionally clustered ; 

 in F. spathacea the umbel is dense, sometimes congested into a head. 



* Stem with few (often 3-1) spikelets. 



10. r. scboenoides, VaAl Enum. ii. 286 ; glabrous, stem with 1-3 

 middle-sized ovoid spikelets, style 2-fid, nut obovoid stalked biconvex 

 smooth white rarely discoloured brownish. Nees in Wight Contrib. 97 ; 

 Thw. Fnum. 348 ; Boeck. in Linneea, xxxvii. 5 {excl. var. ^). P. bispicata, 

 Nees I. c. 97 {mainly) ; Boeck. I. q. 6 (partly). P. inconstans, Steud. 

 Syn. Ch/p. 107. P. polymorpha var. depauperata, Boeck. in Flora, 

 Iviii. 111. Soirpus schcBnoides, Bictz Obs. v. 14. S. monostachyus, Kcenig. 

 ma. ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 219. S. bispicatus, Roxl. I.e. 220. Isolepis mono- 

 ataxsh.ja,,Spreng. Neue Entdeck. iii. 11. I. bispicata, Boem. & Sch. Syst. 

 Mant. ii. 61. I. rariflora, Schrad. in Boem. & Sch. I. c. 65. Eleogiton 

 monostaohya, Dieir. Sp. PI. ii. 97. Ahildgaardia nervosa, Preal. Bel. 

 Baenlc. i. 180.— Isolepis ?, Wall. Gat. 3490 (except P>. 



Throughout India, alt. 0-6500 ft.— Disteib. S.E. Asia, N. Australia. 



Shizome 0, or rarely horizontal, very short. Stems 4-12 in., tufted, rather 

 slender, striate, base often thickened. Leaves as long as J-| stem (occasionally 

 longer than stem), narrow, edges incurved (when dry) most minutely scabrous. 

 Spikelets J-| in., dense-fld., pale or brown. &liim,es ovate, obtuse, scarcely muero- 

 nate, adpressed, incurved, many-striate, rusty -brown rarely green on back ; lowest 

 empty, Uke the rest, or rarely bract-like with green nerve excurrent ^1 in. j all 

 caducous seriatim, leaving the rhachilla minutely hairy by the ragged edges of the 

 areoles. Stamens 3, rarely 2; anthers not crested. Style long, flattened, villous 

 nearly to base ; branches short. Nut as long as J-^ glume ; outermost cells very 

 small, subquadrate obscure. — The large Khasi form, with rusty-brown spikelets f in. 

 long, is by Boeckeler added (perhaps rightly) to F. sub -bispicata. 



11. r. sub-bispicata, Nees ^ Meyen, in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cm. 

 xix., Swppl. i. 75; glabrous, stem with 1-3-6 large cylindric spikelets, style 

 2-fid, nut obovoid stalked biconvex smooth white or becoming brown. 

 Benth. Fl.Hongk. 891. P. japonica, Sieb. et Zucc. ms. ; Steud. 8yn. Gyp. 

 107. P. bispicata, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 6 (partly). 



OeissA; Pooree, W. S. Atkinson. — Distbib. China, Japan. 



Stems 8-20 in. Spikelets up to 1 by 4 in. Nut scarcely as long as i glume.— 

 The type of Nees and Meyen is an abundant Bast Asiatic plant near the sea, and 

 appears distinct from ¥. schoenoides by its larger size and larger spikelet ; but the 

 species is scarcely otherwise separable, though admitted by Bentham. 



** Stem with many or several spikelets [but, even in the case of species 

 that have normally a compound umbel, small examples with few (some- 

 times with 1) spikelets occur.] 



