Fimhristylis.] olxxii. ctperaoe.b. (C. B. Clarke.) 643 



N.W. HiMAiAYA, alt. 4-9000 ft. Simla, T. Thomson, Gamble. Kumaon, 

 Buthie. — DiSTElB. Japan. 



Stolons up to 2 in., densely clothed by lanceolate striate scales, finally hardening 

 into a woody rhizome. Leaves as long as i stem, fiat, acutp. Vmbel 1-3 in. in 

 diam., with 5-l4 spikelets ; bracts short. Spilcelets i by ^ in., ellipsoid-lanceolate, 

 10-fld. Glumes adpressed, boat-shaped, ovate, shortly acuminate, chestnut or testa- 

 ceous, visually with round glands in upper half, margins scarious. Style long, 

 glabrous, deciduous with narrow style-base. Jlftit as long as ^f glume, tip sub- 

 pyramidal. 



** Stem with many spikelets (at least in fairly developed examples), 

 t Nut slenderly traheculate (outermost cells transversely oblong). 



35. P. Arnottiana, Soeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 28 ; stems a foot (at 

 least), umbel decompound, spikelets cuboid-ellipsoid one-colrd., glumes 

 ovate obtuse brown hardly keeled, style S-fid, nut obovoid yellow-brown 

 transversely lineate obscurely tuberoulated. 



Deccan Peninsttla ; Cannanore, Campbell {Herb. Wight propr., n. 1884, 

 right-hand plant only): 



Stems somewhat slender, 4-5-angular under umbel. Umbel 3-4 in. diam., 

 glabrous, with 30 spikelets ; bracts 3-4, up to f in. long, very narrow. Spikelets 

 ■| by J in. , obtuse, 10-fid., styles conspicuously protruded. Glvmes concave, ad- 

 pressed incurved, scarcely striate. Stamens 2-3; anthers linear-oblong, scarcely 

 apiculate. Sti/le as long as nut, slender, glabrous, deciduous with the narrow style- 

 base. Nut small, as long as ^— J glume. — Founded on some upper portions of stems 

 without leaves, pasted down (in Herb. Wight) with F. qvAnguamgularis, to which it 

 is closely allied. 



36. r. filifoliai 5oecfc. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 32; stems 2 ft. quadran- 

 gular, leaves long narrow convolute or 0, umbel decompound and supra- 

 decompound, spikelets ellipsoid acute, style 3-fid, nut obovoid straw-yellow 

 smooth obscurely transversely lineblate. — Trichelostylis sp., n. 14, Merh. 

 Ind. Or. H.f.&T. 



SiKKiM Teeai ; Dulkajhar, alt. 500 ft., C. B. Clarice. Khasia Hills ; Chnrra, 

 alt. 4200 ft., J. Zl.-S'.,&e.' 



Glabrous. Leaves sometimes as long nearly as stem, often shorter, sometimes 0. 

 Umbel 4-12 in. in diam., with many (sometimes 250) solitary spikelets ; bracts 

 J-2 in. Spikelets i by |^ in., brown. Glumes ovate, obtuse, with 3 green nerves. 

 Stt/le as long as nut, slender, slightly villous below trifurcation, deciduous with the 

 narrow pyramidal style-base ; branche9 long linear. Nut as long as f glume, round 

 trigonous ; outermost cells in about 12 longitudinal series on each face. — Resembles 

 large examples of F. dipht/lla, but differs not only in the 3-fid style, but in the long 

 linear style -branches. 



37. r- asperrima, Boeck. in Linnxa, xxxvii. 40 ; stems 1^-2^ ft., 

 leaves long, umbel decompound with niamerous spikelets, bracts acute 

 often longer than umbel, style 3-fid, nut ellipsoid brown smooth trans- 

 versely traheculate smooth or slightly tuberculate. P. ohsetorrhiza, Thw. 

 Enum. 349 (partly, not of Kwnth). Isolepis dura, Moritzi, Verz. Zoll. PI. 

 97. Trichelostylis asperrima, Nees ms.— Fimhristylis, Wall. Oat. 3502 B 

 {pwrtly), 3525 (mixed^. 



Cbyion, Thmantes, &e. From Tatoy, WalUch, to Singapore, Miiley, frequent. 

 — DiSTEiB. Malaya. 



Stems either 5-angular or flattened under umbel. Leaves several, often as long 

 as stem. Umbel large, sometimes with 150 solitary spikelets. Spilcelets, style, and 



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