390 CYPEBACEiE. [AbiUgaardia. 



spikelet about \ in. long. Glumes pale straw-colour, very pointed, acutely 

 keeled. Style hairy, with a thickly conical base. Nut obovoid-triangular, 

 minutely tuberculate. 



Hongkong, Harland, Wright. Widely distributed over tropical Asia, tropica] and soathern 

 Africa, and tropical America. 



3. A. Eragrostis, VaJil ; Kunth, Enum. ii, 249. Densely tufted, stiff, 

 and glaucous. Leaves linear, obtuse, 4 to 8 in. long, about 1 line broad. 

 Stems 1 to 1\ ft. high, angular. Umbel irregularly compound. Spikelets 3 

 to 4 lines long, often early becoming spiral, so as to lose the distichous appear- 

 ance. Glumes pale brown, broad, shortly pointed, or the lower ones obtuse. 

 Nut obovoid, minutely tuberculate. — Fimbrktylea quinquangularis, Munro in 

 Seem. Bot. Her. 422 ; not of Kunth. 



Hongkong, Hance, Wright. Also in Khaaia. 



3. A. fasca, Nees ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 249. Habit and inflorescence of 

 A. Eragrostis, but a rather smaller and more slender plant, with much narrower 

 leaves more or less pubescent. Spikelets narrower, of a rich uniform brown, 

 3 to 4 lines long. Glumes lanceolate, very pointed, regularly distichous. 

 Stamens 3. Style glabrous. Nut obovoid, with 3 prominent angles; the 

 sides tuberculate, almost muricate. 

 I Hongkong, Hance, Wright. In Nepal, Java, and Borneo. 



6. riMBKISTYLES, Vahl. 



Spikelets several-flowered, the glumes imbricate all round, only ], or 2 of 

 the lowest empty. Flowers hermaphrodite, without hypogynous scales or 

 bristles. Stamens 3 or fewer. Style 2- or 3-cleft, usually thickened at the 

 base and articulate on the nut below the bulb. — Leaves usually radical or 

 sheathing the stem at its base, sometimes all reduced to sheaths'. Spikelets 

 solitary on the scape, or more frequently on the rays of a simple or compomid 

 umbel, one always sessile, or rarely clustered in a single head or on the rays 

 of the umbel. 



A large genus, widely distributed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe, 

 extending eJso sparingly into the warmer temperate zones. 



Spikelets 1 or few, rarely 5 or 6, 1 sessile, the others pedunculate. 



Spikelets solitary (about 4 lines long) . Nuts with deep transverse furrows. 



Spikelets ovoid-oblong, brown, more or less nodding . . . . \. I. nutans. 



Spikelet narrow, pale straw-colour, erect 2. j? acumimta. 



Spikelets 1 to 3, pale straw-colour, very obtuse. Nuts smooth or 



nearly so, sessile S. F. schcmoidet. 



opikelets 1 to 6. Nuts smooth or nearly so, stipitate. 



Spikelets 7 to 10 lines long, usually solitary 4., p. subiispicata. 



Spikelets about 5 lines long, usuaUy 3 to 6 5. i?. podocarpa. 



Spikelets several, often numerous, in a more or less compound irregu- 

 lar umbel. Nuts sessile. 

 Styles 2-cleft (occa-oionally 3-cleft, with 1 branch smaller). 



Stems i to Ii ft. high._ Leaves stiff. Spikelets brown. Nats 

 more or less conspicuously striate. 

 Umbel scarcely compound. Leaves very short. Glumes hoary 



at the top . . &. F.ferruginea. 



Umbel usually compound. Leaves 3 to 6 in. long. Glumes 

 perfectly glabrous . • . . . 7 f 



