1766 CLII. CYPERAGE^ [Fimbristylis. 



to 4 flowers. Glumes imbricate all round, erect, lanceolate, acute, membranous, 

 keeled, the flowerinn; ones about 2 lines long, 2 or 3 outer ones shorter, and 1 or 

 2. small empty ones above the flowers. Stamens 3. Style glabrous or nearly so, 

 the bulbous base continuous and falling off with it ;. branches 8. ]Nut ovoid- 

 oblong, faintly 3-ribbed, whitish, rugose. — F. cinnamome-torum, Kunth, Enum. 

 ii. 229 ; (Boeckel. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 3S) ; Abildgaardia omnamometorum, Thw. 

 Enum. PI. Zeyl. 847 ; Ahildgaaidiafuaea, F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 273, not of Nees ; 

 Fimbristylu hiflora, Boeckel. in Linn%a, xxxviii. 393. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 11. Broun; Wide Bay, Bidicill; Uockingham Bay, 

 Dallachy ; Brisbane Eiver and many other southern localities. Also in the East Indian 

 Pieninsula and in Ceylon. 



29. P. furva (dark), Ji. Br. Piod. 228 ; Benth. 11. Amtr,\\i. 318. Probably 

 perennial, glabrous and not glaucous. Stems tufted, 4 to 8in. high, slightly 

 flattened. Leaves shorter, numerous, more or less spreading, linear, flat, obtuse, 

 flaccid, 1 to IJ line broad. Umbel small and dense but compound,,, with few 

 short rays, the spikelets mostly in clusters of 2 or 3 but some solitary. Iiivolucral 

 bracts .sm§,ll' and glume-like or 1 ov 2 pr.6dnced ialb short points. - Spikelets 

 brown, ovoid or ovoid-oblong, about 2 lines long. Glumes imbricate all round, 

 broad, the keel prominent and produced into a point very short in the inner 

 glumes, longer in the lower ones with frequently a nerve on each side, the broad 

 sides membranous and smooth. Stamens 2 or 8. Style slender, ciliate in the 

 upper part ; branches 3. Nut not seen full grown. 

 Hab.: Booby Island, Ilanlts and Solander; Eockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



SO. P. cymosa (cymose) li. Br. Prod. 228; Benth. Fl. Amtr. vii. 318. 

 Perennial and glabrous. Stems slender but rigid, |- to IJft. high. Leaves much 

 shorter, numerous at the base, narrow, erect, rigid and shining. Umbel com- 

 pound, the rays and pedicels spreading. Involucral bracts lanceolate, with fine 

 points or laminaj much shorter than the rays. Spikelets numerous, in clusters 

 ■of 2 or 3 with solitary ones intermixed, ovoid, 1 to '1 J line long, pale brown. 

 <jlumes not numerous, loosely imbricate all round, membranous, keeled, the 

 iower ones acute or acuminate, the upper ones obtuse. Stamens usually 3. 

 Style slender, not ciliate ; branches 3. Nut very sm'all, acutely 3-ang'led; smooth 

 or minutely granular. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf ol Carpentaria and Prince ot Wales' Island, E. Broicn. 



31. p. sericea (silky), R. Br. Prod. 228; Be)%th. Fl. Aiistr. \il 319. 

 Rhizome or stock thick and covered with the remains of old leaf-slieaths. Stems 

 <3in. to 1ft. high, rigid, angular, striate, silky-pubescent or at length glabrous. 

 Leaves much shorter, crowded at the base of the stem, linear, thick, 1 to 2 lines 

 broad, obtuse, silky-pubescent on the underside and sheaths. Umbel irregularly 

 •compound, the longer rays about IJiu., the spikelets in little clusters of 3 to 10. 

 Involucral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, silky-hairy, much shorter than the rays. 

 Spikelets about 2 lines long, with 2 or 3 perfect flowers. Glumes lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, navicular, prominently keeled, the sides nerveless, 2 

 outer ones shorter and empty and 1 or 2 upper ones also empty. Stamens 3. 

 Style very shortly hairy ; branches 3 (or 2). Nut not seeii. — Bceckel. in Linnsea, 

 xxxvii. 22. 



Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, B, Brown. 



32. P. DTeilsoni (after — Neilson), F. c. M. Fragm. ix. 79 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vii. 316. Glabrous. Stems 1ft. high or more. Leaves shorter, narrow, 

 with broad scarious sheaths obtuse at the orifice. Spikelets. large, in a dense 

 cluster of 3 to 6, with 2 or 3 short lateral rays or pedicels, bearing each. 3 or 4, 

 iorming a simple umbel. Involucral bracts rarely longer than the inflorescence. 



