Fimbristylis.'] olxxii. oypbeaoe^. (0. B. Clarke.) 649 



Sect. IV. Abildgaardia (Genus) Vahl Enum. ii. 296. Lower glumes 

 of spikelet distichous or nearly so, upper fertile glumes spirally placed. 

 (See also F. mgrobrunnea, sp. n. 49 above.) Spikelets not clustered. 



* Spikelets pale, nut large triquetrous base much narrowed. 



_ 52. r. monostacliya, Sassk PI. Jav. Bar. 61 ; stems Iea,fy at base 

 with 1 (rarely 2-3) spikelet, nut-bearing glumes 2-3-8tichous shortly 

 muoronate, style 3-fid, nut somewhat large obovoid more or less tuberculate 

 Straw-colrd. or pale-brown. Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 308. Cyperus mono- 

 stachyns, Linn. Mont. 180 ; Bottb. Bescr. et Ic. 18, 1. 13, fig. 3. 0. indicus, 

 Pers. 8yn. i. 65. Scirpus sohoenoides, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 221. Abildgaardia 

 monostaohya, Vahl Enum. ii. 296 ; Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 286 ; Thw. 

 Enum. 347 ; Boeck. in Idnnsea, xxxvii. 53. A. Iseyigata, Link Jahrh. iii. 

 81. A. Eottboelliana, Ifees in Wight Contrib. 95. A. compressa, Presl. 

 Bel. Ssenk. i. 179. A. indica, Nees in LAnnsea, ix. 289. — Abildgaardia, 

 Wall. Cat. 3491. 



Thronghont warmer India. — Disteib. All warm regions. 



Glabrous. Bhizome 0, or very short. Stems 2-16 in., tufted, slender, angular. 

 Leaves as long as ^ stem, narrow. Spikelet quasi-terminal (bract hardly any) i by 

 ■| in., or in some of Wallich's collections nearly twice these dimensions, compressed 

 with glumes distichous), or often twisted. Glumes ovate, acute, keel green, sides 

 straw-colrd. or yellow. Stamens 3 ; anthers linear-oblong not crested. Style long, 

 villous nearly to the base, deciduous with pyramidal style-base ; branches rather 

 short. Nut as long as ^1 glume, base much contracted. 



53. P. tristachyaj Thw. Enum. 434 {not of Br. or Nees) ; stem stout 

 leafy at base with 2-5 (rarely 1) large spikelets, nut-bearing glumes 2-3- 

 stichous shortly mucronate, style 3-fid, nut large obovoid tuberculate 

 ultimately brown-black. Cyperus trifiorus, Linn. Mant. 62. Schoenus 

 cyperoides, Retz Obs. iv. 8. Abildgaardia tristaohya, Vahl Enum. ii. 297 ; 

 Nees in Wight Contrib. 96 ; Thw. I. c. 347 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 54. 

 A. monostachya, var. Sassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 61. — Isolepisp, Wall. Cat. 

 3492. 



Dbccan Peninsula, frequent; Wight, &c. Cetlon; Thwaites. — Disteib. 

 Warmer Africa. 



Stems 1-2^ ft. Leaves as long as J stem, rigid. Spihelets 1 in., compressed, 

 often twisted. — This species is altogether larger than the common forms of F. mono- 

 stachya ; from the large form of F. monostachya it does not differ much except by 

 its dark nut. 



** Spikelets brown, nut small base not much narrowed,. 



54. r. fusca, Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 1048; leaves several short 

 flat, umbel often compound, bracts short, glumes few-ranked boat- 

 shaped acute brown puberulous, style 3-fid, nut obovoid pale smooth 

 slightly verrucose. P. cinnamometorum, Hance in Jburn. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 132 {not Kunth). F. Kamphoeveneri, Boeck. in Engler Bat. Jahrb. v. 505. 

 Gussonia pauciflora, Brongn. in Bot. Duperr. Voy. 171, t. 34, B. Abildga- 

 ardiafnsca, Nees in Wight Contrib. 95 ; BoecTc. in Linncea, xxxvii. 54. A. 

 pauciflora, Kunth Enum. ii. 249. Schoenus pnberulus, C. A. Meyer Cyp. 

 Nov. 2, t. 1. Eynchospora? anomala, 8teud. Syn. Cyp. 149; Mig. Fl. Lnd. 

 Bat. iii. 837. Isolepis longispica, Steud. I. a. 104. — Fimbristylis, Wall. 

 Cat. 3530. 



