638 OLSxii. CYPBRAOE^. (C. B. Clarke.) [FimbristyUs. 



and decompound, style 2-fid, nut oTDOToid smooth straw-colrd. Boeek. 

 in Linnssa, zxxviii. 409 (not xxxvii. 13.)— Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3S07, 

 0. 



StI/Het ; Wallieh. 



Glabrous. Boots fibrous, stout. Btems 12-20 in. scabrous on edges at top. 

 Leaves flat, robust, often overtopping stem. Bracts 3-4, two lower often 4-5 in. 

 very scabrous on margins. Spikelets many, ^ by -j^ in., 5-8-fld., acute, chestnut- 

 brown. Glumes ovate, acute, adpressed-incurved. Stamens 3. S^/e long, scarcely 

 compressed, nearly glabrous ; branches long. Nut as long as f glume, biconvex, 

 scarcely stalked ; outermost cells very small in 20-24 vertical series on each face. — 

 From the flattened top of stem and small spikelets this has been sometimes referred 

 to F. complcmata. 



19. r. podocarpa, Nees in Wight Contrib. 98 (partly) ; nut smooth 

 finely reticulated not longitudinally striated, gynophore very prominent 

 obpyramidal, otherwise as F. dAphylla. Nees & Meyen in Nov. Act. Acad. 

 Nat. Cur. xix. 8uppl. i. (1843) 77, var. S {and part a not j3.) F. communis, 

 KuntJi Emim. ii. 234 (partly). F. polymorpna, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvii. 

 14 (ijariZj')— Fimbristylis, Wall. Cat. 3521 B. 



From the W. Himalaya to Uppkb Assam and Dacca ; Chota NAapOEE, 0. S. 

 Clarice; Khasia, S. f. et T. T. {Fimbristylis n. 33) j &c. — Disteib. Malaya, China, 

 Marianne Isles. 



This is J?". po(iooarpa, Munro ms. and Herh. Soak. f. ; the type example of F. 

 podocarpa in Wight named by Nees' hand is typical F. diphylla, Vabl. — In F. 

 podocarpa (as here understood) the gynophore is obpyramidal, distinguishable from 

 the nut, its apex is dilated sometimes into a 3-lobed saucer resembling much some 

 Sclerias. The nut has the small outermost cells in 20-24 rows on each face. 



20. r. fusclnux, G. B. Clarke; nearly glabrous, stems middle- 

 sized, leaves long, umbel large compound, glumes keeled acute pubernlous, 

 style 2-fid, nut obovoid smooth dusky finally black. 



N. India; Moradabad, T. Thomson; Sikkim Tebai, 0. B. Clarice. 



Stems 8-20 in. Leaves as long as_ i-f stem, rigid, tip subobtuse. Umbel often 

 6 in. diam. Spikelets all solitary, ovoid, J— J in. long, somewhat angular by reason 

 of the keeled glumes. Glumes glabrate, margins ciliate hairy, shoulders often 

 pubernlous, tips spreading not adpressed incurved (as in F. ferruginea). — From the 

 large umbel and long leaves this has been referred to F. diphylla; it is nearer F. 

 ferruffinea. 



21. F. altoo-viridis, 0. B. Clarke ms. in Herb. Calcutt. ; umbel 

 somewhat lax, nut obovoid straw-colrd. shining smooth or with numerous 

 obscure longitudinal striations — otherwise as JP. diphylla. 



E. BENaAL ; Griffith {in Serb. Calcutt!) ; Eitee Meona, J. 2). Hooker ; TJppbe 

 ASSAU, JenMns. 



Stems 12-20 in. Leaves long, nearly glabrous. Umbel once or twice compound, 

 pedicels long. Spikelets i-i in. long, greenish-white, sometimes tinged purple- 

 chestnut. Nut often with minute scattered white scales ; outermost cells small, in 

 25-30 longitudinal series on each face.— Very near F. diphylla, but all the examples 

 agree closely, and the marking of the nut is unlike that of F. diphylla — much 

 nearer that of ^. podocarpa. 



22. r. ferruginea, Vahl Fnum. 291; stems. 8-30 in., leaves short 

 sometimes none, glabrous or hairy, umbel simple or compound usually 

 contracted, glumes often pubernlous below tip, style 2-fid, nut obovoid 

 smooth pale finally brownish. Delile Fl. .Mgypt, 10, t. 6, fig. 3j Nees in 



