532 



Spec. Chae. Culm obliquely tetragonal, and with the sheaths 

 glabrous : leaves ciliately hairy at the margin. : peduncles 3 — 5- 

 spiked, terminal and . axillary, solitary and twin, short : spikes 

 sessile, ovate, obtuse : scales mucronate and somewhat awned, 

 3 nerved, pubescent; small scales long-clawed, broad, 3-lobed at 

 the apex, somewhat hastate at the base, 3 -nerved, glabrous : 

 bristlets minute, retrorsely hispidulous : achenium strongly mucro- 

 nate, mucro glabrous. 



Peninsula. 



(3) F. TUfcrerATA. ^ Wall. J 



Ident. "WaU. Cat. No. 3534'>-— Kunth 1. c. p. 184. 



Syn. Scirpus uncinatus, Willd. VaM. — Isolepis uncinata Roem. 

 md SchuU. II. 111.— F. ciliaris, WigU Contrib. p. 93. 



Spec. Chae. Culms diffuse, sheaths and leaves pilose : capitules 

 axillary, solitary, peduncled, terminal ones twin, the other sessile : 

 spikes few-flowered: scales keeled, mucronate and somewhat 

 awned, costately 7-nerved, pubescent, ciliated : small scales clawed, 

 ovate, 3-nerved, ciliated, hispidulous and villous at the apex and 

 slightly awned, awn retrorsely spinous : achenium long-mucronate. 



Coromandel shores. Silhet. Peninsula. 



(4) F. PENiAGONA. f W. and A.J 



Ident. "Wight and Amott Contrib. Bot. p. 93. 



Spec. Chae. Culms glabrous, sheaths acutely 5-angular: 

 peduncles terminal and axillary, somewhat twin, one 1-headed, 

 the other longer, 2 — 3-headed : capitules many-spiked, one sessile, 

 1 — 2 shortly pedicelled: spikes ovate, acute: scales mucronate and 

 somewhat awned, 3-nerved, pubescent : small scales clawed, some- 

 what obcordate, with a hooked mucronule : bristlets none : achenium 

 strongly mucronate, mucro hairyish. 



Peninsula. 



(5) F. cuspiDAiA. (Kunth.) 



Ident. Kunth 1. c. p. 187. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 286. 



Byn. Scirpus cuspidatus, Hoth. sp. 31. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot stoloniferous : culms leafy, sheaths sharply 

 triangular, the mouths membranous : leaves twice the length of the 

 sheaths, spreading, rigid, linear-subulate, keeled : spikelets about 

 8, or in twos or threes, ovoid, oblong, on pedicels of different 



