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200 published names. The synonyms cited (taken largely from Steudel’s her- 
barium) may prevent trouble in looking vainly for his Malayan species in the 
Philippines. 
Taking the species in the restricted sense, it is most variable, sometimes 
filiform, sometimes robust, normally glabrous but frequently very hairy, the culm 
often carrying one spikelet only, sometimes 200. The commonest Malayan form 
of the species has the nut somewhat scaly or scabrous on the shoulders, the stem 
and leaves not rarely hairy (Nos. 756, 757, 758 Loher) . 
10. Fimbristylis aestivalis Yahl. Enum. 2 (1806) 288. 
Small, tufted., umbel compound or decompound; spikelets small; nut 
obovoid, straw colored, not transversefy barred. 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 637; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 230. 
Fimbristylis dichotoma Presl ! Bel. Haenk. 1 : 191, non Vahl. F. squarrosa 
Steud. ! in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. heft 2, 61. F. tricholepis Miq. FI. Nederl. 
Ind. 3: 319, et Suppl. 262. Scirpus aestivalis Retz. Obs. 4: 12. 
Philippines, {Llanos); {Haenke) . Luzon, Manila, (Wichura) ; (3174 Di- 
drichsen) ; (746 Loher); Benguet, (743, 744, 745 Loher); (6070 Elmer). 
India to Amurland and Australia; common. 
Var. /3 macrostachya Benth. FI. Austral. 7: 310. 
Stronger, with larger spikelets ; nut obscurely ribbed longitudinally. 
Leyte, ( 1008 Jagor) . 
North Australia. 
This variety tends toward Fimbristylis dichotoma Vahl. 
11. Fimbristylis podocarpa Nees ! in Wight. Contrib. (1834) 98. 
Nut obovoid, on a conspicuous gynophore, subcancellate but hardly 
transversely barred, otherwise as F. diphylla Yahl. 
Nees in Linnsea 9 (1834) 290, et in Hook, et Arn. Beechy Voy. 225, partim; 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 638; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 241. 
Fimbristylis communis (forma) Kunth, Enum. 2: 234. F. polymorpha (forma) 
Boeck. in Linnsea 37 (1871) 14. 
. Luzon, ( 7 66 Loher) . 
India, frequent; extending through Malaya to the Marianne Islands. Also 
from Brazil, there are two examples which are referred to F. podocarpa, but 
which are possibly depauperated F. spadicea Vahl. 
12. Fimbristylis ferruginea Vahl, Enum. 2 (1806) 291. 
TJmbel often simple ; glumes minutely pubescent on the shoulder ; nut 
obovoid, smooth. 
Decaisne in Nouv. Ann. Mus. Paris, 3 (1834) 362; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 
6: 638; Vidal, Rev. PL Vase. Filip. 284; Phaner. Cuming Philip. 156; Hemsl. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 235; Merrill, Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 
1: 30. Fimbristylis cyrtophylla Miq. FI. Nederl. Ind. 3: 325. F. trispicata 
Steud. Cyp. 107; Miq. 1. e. 317. Scirpus ferruginous Linn. ! Sp. PI. ed. 1, 50, 
ed. 2, 74, et lib. Ipropr., partim. 
Luzon, (127 Chamisso) ; (1341 Loher); (1396 Cuming); (1304 Whitford) . 
Culion, (546 Merrill). 
