650 OLXXii. CYPERACEi. (C. B, Clarke.) [Fimhristylis. 



TSeva.!. ; Wallioh. Bvrsakvr ; Eurz. Fliav ; Kurz. PenANG; alt. 2500 ft., 

 Knnstler. — Distrie, Malaya, China. 



Bhizome very short, woody, horizontal, densely leafy. Stems about 1 ft., 

 slender, angular, glabrous. Leaves scarcely as innch as J stem, Jj in. broad, 

 minntely pubescent or nearly glabrous, tip obtuse. Umbel l-ZJ in. diam., with 

 about 10-20 spikelets; bracts 4-| in., usually hairy. SpiJcelets |-| by i in., 

 flattened ; lowest three glumes empty, lowest 2 shorter ; nut-bearing glumes 2-6, 

 subdistichous, upper glumes 3-6 male or sterile 3-severaI-ranked. &Vwmes sub- 

 mucronate, margins scarious, upwards often glandular. Stamens usually 2. Style 

 long, slender, glabrous, deciduous with pyramidal style-base ; branches linear. 'Sut 

 as long as i— J glume, snbacutely trigonous, obtuse ; outermost cells somewhat lax, 

 sometimes almost papillose. 



55. r. fulvescens, Thw. Enum. 434 ; annual, glabrous, leaves as 

 long as |-i stem, otherwise nearly as F.fitsca, var. longifolia. Boedk. in 

 Linnsea, xxxvii. 55. Abildgaardia fulvescens, Iliw. I.e. 347. 



Ceylon ; WalTcer, Thwaites (n. 679). 



Steins tufted. Umiel nearly as in F.fusca, or sometimes more loose, with pale- 

 cinnamon long-pedicelled spikelets; bracts ligulate scabrous. Spikelets ^—^ in. 

 broad, i.e. often rather broader than in F.fusca. 



56. F.' cyperoides, Br. Prodr. 228; leaves several long narrow, 

 umbel compound, bracts short, glumes few-ranked boat-shnped acuminate 

 brown glandular, style 3-fid, nut oblong-obovoid pale transversely trabe- 

 culate. Benth. PL Austral, vii. 317. F. biflora, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxviii. 

 393. Abildgaardia cyperoides, Nees in Wight Gontrih. 95 {in note). 

 Gnssonea cyperoides, Presl. Rel. Hsenk. i. 183, t. 33 (see Benth. & Sodk.J\ 

 Gen. PI. 1049.) 



N. AusTEALiA, Philippinb, Caeoline Isies. 



stems about 1 ft., slender (base thickened by horny sheaths) closely approximate 

 on a very short rhizome. Leaves as long as i-f stem, glabrous or minutely hairy. 

 Umbel 1-Zi in. diam., sometimes with 80 spikelets usually with much fewer, 

 glabrous or minutely hairy j bracts i-1 in. Spikelets i by -Jj in., flattened; lowest 

 2-3 glumes empty, lowest 1-2 small ; nut-bearing glumes 2-4, distichous, upper 

 glumes 3-6, male or sterile, 3-several-ranked. Stamens often 3. Style long, 

 slender, deciduous with its hairy pyramidal style-base; branches linear. Ifut as 

 long as f glume, round trigonous. — California (Presl.) is an error for Manila. 



Var. cinnamometorum (sp.) Kuuth Enum. ii. 229 ; roots fibrous, stems tufted, 

 nut shining somewhat polygonal, outermost cells transversely oblong superimposed 

 regularly in 7-11 vertical series on each face (i.e. nut 7-11-ribbed on each of its 3 

 faces). Boeck.inLinniea,xxxvn.35. F . glahm, Steud. Syn. (7i/p. Ill, chiefly. Scirpus 

 cinnamometorum, Tahl Enum. ii. 278. Trichelostylis cinnamometorum, Nees in 

 Linncea, ix. 290. Abildgaardia cinnamometorum, TAw. Enum. 347 (excl. syn. 

 fusca). — Pegu and Ceylon ; China. — Steudel's F. glabra is founded on Hohenacker 

 n. 131, a, which is this " cinnamometorum," mixed with F. tenera var. oxi/lepis ; 

 Steudel's description regards mostly cinnamometorum. 



57. F. actinoschcenus, C. B. Clavlee ; leaves hardly any, spikelets 

 in one small dense head 4-1-fld., glumes about 6 few-ranked lower 

 subdistichous, style 3-fid, nut small obovoid trigonous. Aetinoschoenus 

 flliformis, Benth. in Mooh. Ic. PI. xiv. 33, t. 1346. Arthrostylis filiformis, 

 Thw. Enum. 352 ; Boedk. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 524. 



Cetlon ; Thwaites (n, 3469), Beckett. 



Glabrous, perennial. Stems slender, 12-30 in. Leaves 0-s in., setaceous, green, 

 close to base of stem. Spikelets up to 20 in a globose head 3-| in. diam. ; bracts 

 0-J in., setaceous. Spikelets ^ in., usually 2-fld., lower flower alone perfecting a 



