Fimh-istylis.'] clxxii. oyperaoej:. (G. B. Clarke.) 651 



nut ; but sometimes 4.fld., the three lower flowers perfect. Lowest 3 glumes smaller 

 empty ; glume subaristate, with recurved point (but. see var, |3). Style deciduous ; 

 base conic, dilated. Nut smooth, reticulate. 



Var. /3 chmenm; spikelets less numerous, points of fl.-glumes shorter suberect. 

 Arthrostylis chinensis, Benth. Fl. Hongh. 397. Actiuosehoeai sp. Seath. in Mooh. 

 Ic. PI. xiv. 33.— Perak, alt. 6500 ft., Wrau, n. 351, alt. 800 ft., Kunstler fn. 

 3373).— Hongkong. ^' • > ^ 



58. F. disticha, Boeck. in Linngea, xxxviii. 393; stems 4-10 in. 

 slender base leafy, umbel 1-3 times divided slender lax, spikelets small 

 narrowly oblong flattened, lower glumes distichous, style 3-fid, nut 

 obovoid pale verruoose almost tuberoulate. 



Tatoy ; Wallich. Motjemein j JParish. Mebgui ; Griffith. — Dibtkib. Cochin 

 China. 



Annual. Stem 5-striate, base thickened by numerous sheaths. Leaves in the 

 type 2 in., often much longer, flat, glabrous, tip obtuse. Umbel 4 in., nearly 

 glabrous, bracts ^ in. Spikelets i by Jj in., pale brown, with about 15 flowers. 

 Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, subobtuse, glabrous, margins minutely hairy, 1-2 lowest 

 empty deciduous. Stamens often 3. Style long, glabrous, deciduous with pyramidal 

 style-base, branches long. Nut as long as ^-f glume, round-trigonous. 



Var ? Kurzii ; stouter, umbel denser, rays hairy, spikelets stouter, glumes 

 distichous densely minutely hairy. — Sikkim Terai; Titaliya, Kurz. 



DOTiBTrui; SPECIES OE Fimbristylis . 



F. Gambieana, Soech. Cyp. Nov. ii. 40.— Madeas j alt. 3000 ft., Gamble.— 

 " Allied to F. tenem," Boeok. 



9. BVIiBOSTYZiIS, Kunth. 



Annuals. Stems slender, leafy only at base. Leaves very narrow and 

 sheaths generally finely hairy. Corymb nmbelliform or congested, some- 

 times reduced to 1 spikelet. Spikelet of numerous axillary perfect flowers, 

 tabescent at top. Glumes imbricated on all sides, 2-1 lowest empty. 

 Hypogynous bristles 0. Stamens 3-1, usually 2; anthers not crested. 

 ^tyle as long as nut, linear, glabrous ; branches 3, linear ; style-base very 

 small, bulbiform ; style with style-base deciduous, leaving a minute button 

 on apex of nut. Nut obovoid, obtuse, 3-gonous, scarcely stalked, smooth. 

 — Species 70, all warm regions. 



This genus comprises a large group of very closely allied species, easily recognized 

 by the fine leaves and needle-like hairs, as well as by the peculiar button left on 

 the nut (itself ultimately deciduous). They are placed in Fimbristylis by Bentham, who 

 laid great stress in the Oyperaceee on the inflorescence; and by Boeckeler in Scirpus. 

 They are really very closely allied to Fleocharis (of which genus one American 

 species is Sulbostylis imdipes, Kunth), from which genus the few Indian Sulbo- 

 stylides are easily distinguished by their leaves. 



1. B. barbata, Kunth Enum. ii. 208 (see p. 205) ; stem glabrous 

 with 3-20 spikelets in a globose, head, style 3-fid, nut straw-colour 

 obscurely reticulated or porose-punotate. B. Wallijhiana and Willdenowii, 

 KumtJi I. e. 209, 210. Scirpns barbatus, Bottb. Descr. et Ic. 52, t. 17, fig. 

 4; Boech. in Linnsea, xxxvi. 751 (exol. var. /3). S. antarcticus, Thunb. Fl. 

 Oap. 96; Boxi. Fl. Ind. i. 223 ()iot Linn.). S. monander, Soxh. l.u. 222. 

 S. puberulus, Boech. I. e. 767 [armeroides only). Isolepis barbata, Br. 

 Prodr. 222 ; Nees in Wight Gontrib. 109 ; Strachey Gat. PI. Kwmaon, 73 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 310 ; Thw. Enum. 350. I. Wallichiana, Boem. Sf 



