CYPERACEiE OF THE PHILIPPINES. 
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Archip. heft 2, (1854) 62 et Cyp. 80; Miq! FI. Nederl. Ind. 3 : 300. E. pellucida 
Presl, Rel. Haenk. T (1828) 196, e deseript. dubie hue allata. Heleocharis 
pellucida et H. af(lata Naves in Blanco, FI. Filip. Nov. App. (1883) 307. 
Luzon, Benguet (740 Loher) ; (5751, 6299 Elmer); Lepanto (4621 Merrill). 
Abundant in southeastern Asia, from India to Japan. 
8. Eleocharis microcarpa Torrey in Ann. Lyceum New York, 3 (1836) 312. 
Nut smooth, hj'pogynons bristles wanting. 
Heleocharis Schweinfurthiana Boeek. ! in Flora, 62 (1879) 562. 
Luzon, (5193 Loher). 
Abundant in warmer and tropical America ; rare in tropical Africa. 
No. 5193 Loher may be taken to be a depauperated state of the common Eleo- 
charis afflata Steud. In Eleocharis, as in most large genera of Cyperace ce, the 
comparison of the Old World species against those of the New World has been 
done, as yet, imperfectly. 
8. FI M BRISTYLIS Vahl. 
Glumes many, placed spirally, or in the section Abildgaardia the lower 
ones subdistichous. Hypogynous bristles none. Style-base swollen, with 
a constriction or articulation between it and the nut, deciduous, leaving 
no button on the nut. 
Sect. I. Eleocharoides Bentli. 
Culm with one spikelet ( rarely one to three ) . 
1. Fimbristylis tetragona R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 226. 
Leaves hardly any; nut cylindric-oblong, straw colored. 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 631; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 246. 
Fimbristylis abjiciens Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Archip. Ind. heft 2, 62; Miq. FI. 
Nederl. Ind. 3 : 316. Scirpus tetragonus Poiret in Lam. Eneycl. Suppl. 5 : 98, 
neque in Lam. Encycl. 6: 767. 
Luzon, Manila, (749 Loher). 
From India to the Philippines and New South Wales ; frequent. 
2. Fimbristylis acuminata Vahl, Enum. 2 (1806) 285. 
Leaves hardly any; nut obovoid, transversely ridged. 
Miq. FI. Nederl. Ind. 3: 314, var. f3 excl.; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 631; 
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 230. 
Luzon, (748 Loher); (3390 Ahern’s collector) . 
From North India to the Philippines and to New South Wales; frequent. 
3. Fimbristylis setacea Benth. ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 2 (1843) 239. 
Stem filiform, spikelet slender; nuts minute, leaves sometimes as long 
as the stems. 
Fimbristylis acuminata j3 minor Miq. FI. Nederl. Ind. 3: 314; Vidal, Rev. 
PL Vase. Filip. 284. F. bursifolia Vidal, 1. c. et Plianer. Cuming. Philip. 156. 
Abildgaardia brevifolia Steud. ! Cyp. 72, cf. Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 24 (1886) 
59, in nota. Isolepis cochleata Steud. ! Cyp. 100. 
Luzon, (675 Cuming); Manila, (Barthe) . 
From Burma to the Philippines and to Queensland ; rare. 
