648 CLxsii. OTPEEACBiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Fimbristijlis. 



spikelets in the typical form, but examples with many solitaiy few clustered spike- 

 lets occur, J-J in., brown or ehestnut-colrd., many-fld. Glumes ovate, pbtuse, 

 margins conspicuously scarious. Stamens 3. Style longer than nut, slender, 

 slightly villous below trifurcation, deciduous with the small pyramidal style-base ; 

 branches long. Ifut as long as i glnmej not (or obscurely) striate. — F. Haenleei, 

 Dietr. is the older (but less certain) name for this species. The Californian habitat 

 given by Boeckeler is probably erroneous. 



Var. ahhreviata (sp.) Boeck. in Flora, xli. 601 ; spikelets some paired but mostly 

 solitary. F. chsstorrhiza, Thw. Eimm. 349 {partly). — Ceylon ; Thwaites, Gardner. 

 Deccan Peninsula ; Waliich n. 3520 A. {partly). Anamallay Mts. j Seddome. 



Var. latifoUa (sp.) Knntb I. c. 239; leaves i-2 by \ in. flat curved and twisted, 

 spikelets rather many (rarely all) solitary. F. falcata, Boeck. in, Linnaa, xxxvii. 

 48. F. torta, Kunth I. c. Zi ; Boeck. I. c. 31. Trichelostylis torta and T. latifolia, 

 Nees in Wight Contrib. 105, 106.— Fimbristylis, Wall. Gat. 3498.— Deccan 

 Peninsula ; Wight, Waliich. Ceylon ; Walker. 



49. r. nigrobrunnea, Thw. Enum. 434; steins 8-20 in., leaves 

 several stout obtuse, umbel simple compound or decompound, spikelets 

 some clustered (rarely all solitary), glumes shining hard dark-brown lower 

 few-ranked or obscurely distichous, style 3-fid, nut obovoid yellow-brown 

 verruoose or nearly smooth. F. subtetrastachya, Boeck. in Linnssa, xxxvii. 

 60. F. pycnostachya, Hance in Journ. Bot. xv. 338. Abildgaardia 

 Eragrostis, Boeck. I. c. 55 {partly, not of Nees Sf Meyen). — Fimbristylis, 

 Wall. Cat. 3523.— Trichelostylis sp. n. 20, Serb. Ind. Or. B.f.&T. 



Khasia Hills, alt. 3-5000 ft. Munetpoor; alt. 3500 ft., Watt. Deccan 

 Peninsula ; Courtallum, Wight. Nicobars. Ceylon, Thwaites, &c. — Distbib. 

 Cambodia. 



Glabrous. Rhizome hardly any. Leaves as long as |-f stem, by ^ in. broad. 

 XJmhel 4-6 in. diam. ; bracts about \ in. ; spikelets in the common Khasia form 2-10 

 to a cluster, in the Ceylon form solitary. Spikelets i by i in., or sometimes much 

 smaller. Glumes ovate, acute, keeled, adpressed. Stamens generally 2. Style 

 as long as nut, slightly villous below trifurcation. Nut as long as f glume. — This 

 species might perhaps be arranged in Sect. Abildgaardia. 



50. p. ulig-inosa, Stend. 8yn. Oyp. 109; stems 4-8 in. slender, 

 leaves almost bristle-like, spikelets clustered black-chestnut, style 3-fid, 

 nut obovoid smooth pale slightly narrowed at top. Boeck. in Idnnaea, 25, 

 25. 



Nilghiei Hills ; alt. 6-7000 ft., Perrottet, &c. 



Leaves as long as J-J stem, ^-^ in. broad. Umbel simple or often reduced 

 to a single cluster sometimes to a single spikelet. — Otherwise as F, nigro-hrunnea, 

 Thw., of which this may be a small mountain state. 



51. P. dig'itata, BoecJc. in Flora, Ixi. 35 ; stems 2-5 in. bristle-like 

 base bulbous, spikelets 3-8 straw-colrd. in a subterminal head, style 

 3-fid, nut obovoid smooth straw-colrd. or finally brownish. Benth. & 

 Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 1050. Scirpus Lawianus, Boeck. in Linnasa, xxxvi. 

 479. Trichelostylis digitata, S.f. 8f T. ms. 



Bombay ; Dalzell. Cakaea ; Law, Young ; Belekerri, Talhoi. 



Glabrous. Leaves as long as i stem, bristle-like. Bracts 2-1, shorter than 

 head. Spikelets J-i by -^-l in., 6-18-fld. Glumes ovate-oblong, scarcely acute, 

 keeled, chaffy, nearly 1-colrd. Sti/le nearly as long as nut, glabrous, deciduous, 

 with small pyramidal style-base, branches linear. Nut as long as i glume, sessile, 

 rouud-trigonous, obtuse at top. 



