Fimhristylis.'] clxxii. otpbeaobj;. (C. B. Clarke.) 641 



Sterna annual, tufted, trigonous, 4-8 in. (or in Dathie n. 9860, stem 0, spikelets 

 basal). Leaves usually shorter than stem, narrow, glabrous. Spikelets 4-25 in the 

 head, f by ~}-^ in., densely-fld. ; bracts 2-4, much overtopping head. Olumes ovate, 

 silver-grey, keel green. Stamen often 1. Style small, shorter than nut, nearly 

 glabrous, deciduous with its base. Nitt very small, about i as long as glume, 

 biconvex, almost margined ; outer cells obscure. 



28. P. albicans, Nees in Wight Oontrib. 100 ; stems leafy at base, 

 spikelets ellipsoid rusty grey, glumes scarcely acute, style 2-fid, nut 

 obovoid straw-oolrd. smooth transversely minutely trabeoulate. Boeck. in 

 JUnnsea, xxxvii. 9. — Isolepis, Wall. Gat. 3482. 



Deccait Peninsula ; Wight, Wallich. 

 . Kearly glabrous. Stems 8-14 in., slender. Leaves narrowly ligulate, tip sud- 

 denly narrowed acute. Spikelets 4-15 in the head, i by J in. Stamens often 2. 

 Style longer than nut; slender, glabrous, with long linear branches. JTitt small, 

 shining; outermost cells conspicuous, transversely oblong, not accurately superim- 

 posed in vertical series (so that the nlit is scarcely striated longitudinally). — Other- 

 wise as F. argentea. 



** Clusters qfspikeleis suhwrribellately corymhed, 



29. P. Kookeriana, Boeok. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 22; nearly glabrous, 

 spikelets clustered and solitary linear-lanceolate, style 2-fid, nut obovoid 

 yellow-brown squamose-tuberculate. * 



Khasia Hills, alt. 1500-4000 ft. Chota Kaqeoee ; alt. 2000 ft. Clarke. 



Annual. Stems 4—10 in., tufted, compressed. Leaves often as long as stem, 

 narrow, flat. Umbel often 4-6 in. diam.; branches oblique-erect; bracts like the 

 leaves, often overtopping umbel. Spikelets 1-6 in a cluster, ^ by x's^iV •"•' 

 terete. Glumes rather remote, oblong, shortly acute, adpressed incurved, rusty- 

 green, keeled, brown-scarions on sides. Stamens usually 2. Style longer than nut, 

 scarcely flattened, slightly dilated at base, villous nearly its whole length, deciduous 

 with style-base. Nut as long as A-^ glume, biconvex, obtuse, very shortly stalked ; 

 outer cells transversely-oblong, regularly superimposed in 12-15 vertical series in 

 each face (i.e. nut slenderly longitudinally 12-15-ribbed) ; shoulders of nut 

 subtuberculate by small scales or papillse. 



30. P. sericea, Br. Prod. 228 ; leaves numerous, white silky strigose 

 beneath, spikelets ellipsoid-oblong silvery grey, style 2-fld, nut obovoid 

 smooth pale. Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 22. F. decora, Nees & Meyen in 

 Wight Contrib. 101. P. dasyphylla, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 327. F. velu- 

 tina, Frcmch. in Bull. 8oa. Bot. France, xxvi. 87. 



Obissa; Poori, W. 8. Atkinson; Ganjam, Lawson. Singapore, Sidley. — 

 DiSTBiB. E. Asia, Malaya, Australia. 



MMzome descending or horizontal, woody, up to 3 in. long, sometimes divided, 

 densely covered by leaves. Stems 4-8 in., rigid, striate. Leaves as long as J-j 

 stem, rigid, curved, •j's-i '"• broad. Umiel f-S in. in diam., simple or compound ; 

 bracts -J-J in. Spikelets 2-6 in a cluster, i by J— i in., somewhat densely-flowered. 

 Glum,es erect adpressed, ovate, keeled, scarcely acute, striate, dusky purple-green, 

 pubescent by minute white hairs, margins scarious white. Style about as long as 

 nut, slightly villous below bifurcation, deciduous with style-base. Nat as long as 

 J-f glume, biconvex, scarcely stalked. 



Sect. III. Thichblostylis (Geuus), Lestih. Essai Fam. Oyp.4S). Lowest 

 fertile glumes of spikelet spirally imbricated ; stems with many or several 

 (rarely few or 1) spikelets. Style d-^^ (in F, cym,osa and F. gloh-ilosa, the 

 lowest flowers in a spike have often 3-fid style, the upper a 2-fid style). 



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