636 cLxxii. OTPBRACE^. (0. B. Clarke.) {Fimbristylis. 



xxxvii. 12 {excl. var. /3, y, F. Eoyeaiana and American sp.) l £e»*A. JJ. 

 Austral, vii. 310 (eascZ. *o»ie syns.). F. pallescens, iS^ee* Z. c. 101 ; bVrachey 

 Gat. PI. Kumaon, 73; TAm). ^rewm. 348. Scirpus dichotomus, iMin. 

 8p. PI. 50; Botth. Bescr. et Ic. 57, t. 13, fig. 1. S. annuus, Moat 

 Gram. Austr. iii. 42, t. 63 (style wrongly 3-fid). S. pallescens, Boxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 229.— FimbristyKs, Wall. Cat. 3511, 3515, 3516 B, 3517 A. 



Throughout India, alt. 0-iOOO ft., especially in rice-fields.— Disteib. Warm 

 regions of Old World. . 



• Annual, pubescent or puberulous. Stems 2-10 in., tufted. Leaves often as long 

 as stem, narrow. Umiel often 2-4 in. diam., sometimes with 9-5 spikelets only ; 

 bracts often as long as umbel. Spikelets 4 by i in., somewhat angular from the 

 acute keels to glumes. Glumes boat-shaped, ferruginous, keel green 1-3-nerved, 

 lowest empty more or less bract-like often pubescent. Stamens 2-1 (or 3 fide 

 Boeckeler). Style long, flattened, often villous nearly to base. Nut as Ipng as J 

 glume, biconvex ; outermost cells, shortly transversely oblong, conspicuous, verticaEy 

 superimposed in 5-9 rows on each face of nut.— Closely allied to F. dipM/lla, in 

 which the spikelets are terete, the glumes being much less keeled than in F. dicho- 

 ioma, 



16. r. diphylla, Vahl Enum. ii. 289 ; tufted, roots fibrous, leaves 

 as long as ^-f stem, nmbel compound or simple or reduced to 1 spikelet, 

 spikelets ovoid-oblong terete, glumes glabrons, style 2-fid, nut 5-13- 

 striated on eacb face straw-colrd., or rarely discolrd. brown, Nees in Wight 

 Oontrih. 100; I%w. Enum. 348. F. laxa, VaU Fnwm. ii. 292. P. 

 tomentosa, Vahl I. c. 290. Nees I. c. 100 & in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 

 xix. Swppl. i. (1843) 81. F. glauca, Vahl I. c. 288. F. annua, Soem. S( 

 Sch. Syst. ii. 96, and Mant. ii. 55; Beichl. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 44. F. 

 depauperata, Br. Prodr. 227. F. curvifolia, Bteud. Gyp. 116. F. braehy- 

 pbylla, Schultes in Poem. Si' Sch. Syst. ii. Mant. 630. F. f oliosa, Link Sort. 

 Berol. i. 288. F. cincta, Nees I. c. 98 (m note). F. Eoyeniana, Nees I.e. 99. 

 F. ovalis, Nees I. c. 98 ; Thw. Enum. 348. F. podooarpa, Nees I. c. (partly) 

 3r in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. Stippl. i. (1843) 77 (partly) ; Benth. 

 Fl. ffongk. 391. F. communis, Kunth Enum. ii. 234 ; Strachey Gat. PI. 

 Kumaon, 73 (excl. syns.). F, Metzii, Sfeud. Syn. Gyp. 127. F. similis, 

 Stead. Syn. Gyp. 112. F. spadicea, Boeck. in Flora, xUi. 70 (not of Vahl). 

 F. pentastachya, Boech. I. c. xl. 36 Sf in lAnnma, xxxvii. 17. F. Heynei, Boeck. 

 in Flora, xliii. 244. F. polymorpha, Boeck. in Linnsea I. c. 17 (excl. some 

 syns.). F. rigidula, Thw. I. c. 348 (not of Nees). Scirpus diphyllus, Betz 

 Obs. V. 15; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 227. S. annuus, Allioni Fl. Pedem. ii. 171, 

 t. 88, fig. 5. S. miliaceus, brevifolius, arvensis and glomeratus, Boxb. I. c. 

 224,226, 227. Trichelostylis curvifoUa, Nees Z. c. 105 (in note). Isolepis 

 curvifolia, Schrad. in Boem. & Sch. Syst. ii. Mant. 70. — Fimbristylis, 

 Wall. Cat. 3501, 3507 (mainly) 3508, 3539 (mainly) 3513, 3521 A. 



Throughout India, alt. 0-6000 ft. ; common. — Disteib. All warm regions. 



Glabrous or hairy. Rhizome none, or very rarely 0-1 in. ; stolons 0. Stems 

 1-24 in., striate, 3-5-angled (rarely compressed) under umbel. Leaves linear or 

 filiform, obtuse or acute, glabrous or hairy, never reduced to sheaths. Umbels 1-8 

 in. diam.; bracts 3-4, sometimes short suberSct, sometimes spreading much longer 

 than umbel. Spileelets commonly i— | in. Glumes concave, glabrous (rarely 

 minutely ciliate on margins), brown or reddish, rarely chestnut-colrd., back green ; 

 lowest 1-3 empty like the others, or rarely somewhat elongated bract-like. Stamens 

 3, 2 or 1. Style long, flattened, villous (at least in the upper half) ; branches rather 

 short. Nut as long as i glume, biconvex, obovoid, shortly stalked, smooth, almost 

 glistening white, or in the Malay examples slightly tubercular on shoulders. — As 



