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shorter than the culm : capitulum compact, spikes 5 — 8, closely 

 sessile, ovate-oblong : in\rolnore 1 — 2-leaved, scale-shaped with a 

 narrow short leaf-shaped appendage, equalling the capitulum : scales 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, rusty, mucronulate : achenium obtusely tri- 

 quetrous, whitish. 



Weilgherries. 



(23) F. oxTtBPis. fStmdel.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 110. 



Spec. Chae. Culms unequal, erect, smooth, compressed and 

 flat, thin, with the whole plant pale rufescent : leaves flat, very 

 narrow, more or less shorter than the culm : involucres of the 

 somewhat simple umbel shorter than the umbel itself, rays usually 

 1 — 3-spictdate : spikes oblong, acutish : scales ovate, somewhat 

 angular in the middle, acutely mucronate : style 2 — 3-cleft : 

 achenium roundish- ovate, obtuse, whitish or brown, everywhere 

 slightly warty and tuberoled. 



Near Serampore. 



(24) F. CAMixACEA. {Soehst.j 



Ident. Hochst. in Herb. Hohenhack, 939. — Steudel 1. c. p. 111. 



Spec. Chae. Culms bristly, compressed, striated, erect, smooth : 

 leaves bristly, shorter than the culm, acute, pale green, smooth : 

 sheaths beset with hairs at the mouth : involucre somewhat 3- 

 leaved : leaflets scaly, small, usually terminated by a much shorter 

 third leaflet : umbel simple, 8— 4-rayed with a sessile spikelet, 

 rays seldom 2-oleft : spikelets in the solitary rays oblong, 5 — 9- 

 flowered : scales rusty : style and 3-cleft stigma fimbriated : 

 achenium obtusely triquetrous, ovate. 



NeUgherries. 



(25) F. GLABEA. (HooM.) 

 Ident. Hochst. ia Steudel 1. c. p. 111. 



Spec. Chae. Culms erect, filiform, striated, smooth, leafy at 

 the base: leaves flat, linear, obtuse, 2 — 3-times shorter than the 

 culm, glabrous : rays of the very simple umbel 3 — 6, longer than 

 the 2-leaved involucre : spikes linear, very thin, narrow : florets 

 imbricated, soon deciduous at the base : scales ovate, rusty, scariose 

 at the edges : style 2-cleft, fimbriated, base remarkably bulbous : 

 achenium white, triquetrous, sparingly warty. 



Mangalore. 



