543 



(19) F. WiGHTiANA. fN. ah. K) 



Idmt. Nees ab. Esenb. in Wight Contrib. p. 99. 



Spec. Cukr. Umbel decompound, rounded, dense : umbeUets 

 many-flo-wered, compact : involucre 2-leaved, much sborter tban 

 tbe umbel : spikelets elliptic, obtuse : scales closely imbricated, 

 broadly ovate, very obtuse, testaceous, wbite membranaceous at the 

 margin, very finely 3-nerved at the back, diandrous : style beard- 

 less : caxyopsis obovate, flat-convex, rough with small tubercles: 

 leaves linear, stifif, channelled, scabrous at the margin : culm 

 furrowed and angular at the base, compressed at the apex, longer 

 than the leaves. 



Peninsula. 



(20) '¥. TEiruissiMA. fSteudel.J 



Steudel 1. c. p. 109. 



Spec. Chab. Culms thin, somewhat compressed, sheathed at the 

 base, sheaths hairy at the mouth : leaves capillary, flattish, shorter 

 than the culm : leaflets of the involucre 2 — 3, somewhat bristly : 

 umbellet capitate, composed of 2 — 5-aggregated spikes : spikes 

 oblong-sessile : scales ovate, concave, keeled, mucronulate : achenium 

 ovate-triquetrous with the angles somewhat elevated, white, smooth. 



Bengal. 



(21) F. GKiFFiTHiAifA. fSteudelJ 

 Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 110. 



Spec. Chae. Culms low, striated, puberulous, at the base from 

 the sheaths densely pubescent, leafy : leaves flattish, very narrow, 

 more or less shorter than the culm : involucres of the compound 

 and decompound umbel more or less shorter than the umbel itself, 

 rays unequal : involucels oblong, somewhat bristly-acuminate, short, 

 densely pubescent : spikes thin, acute, lengthening after the very 

 easily deciduous lower scales, lowest scales persistent, all ovate, 

 acutish, pale : style 2-cleft : achenium ovate, not angled, smooth, 

 whitish. 



Bengal. 



(22) F. ULiGisrosA. fJSochst./ 



Ident. Hochst. in Herb. Hohenhack, 1295. Steudel 1. c. p. 

 109. 



Spec. Chae. Root fibrous, thickened into a woody densely 

 csespitiferous rhizome : culms filiform, striated, leafy at the base, 

 smooth : radical and stem leaves very narrow-linear, flat or keeled 

 and concave, a little curved, acute, scabrous at the edge, three times 



