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THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



On the Indian Species of Cyperus ; with Kemarks on some others 

 that speciaU/ illustrate the Subdivisions of the Genus. By 

 C. B. Claeke, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



[Bead March 6, 1884.] 

 (Plates I.-IV.) 



During the last two months I was at Kew I was employed in 

 revising and re-sorting the Indian species of Cyperus in that Her- 

 barium. In the first half of the genus I was able to look up the 

 synonymy and note the geography pretty fully, and to compare 

 a considerable number of the non-Indian species. In the latter 

 half of the genus, though I was able to sort and examine the 

 Indian material, I was too much pressed by time to be able to 

 write down much. Nevertheless, on leaving for India, Sir J. D. 

 Hooker expressed a wish that I would publish my work on Indian 

 Cyperus in some form, as it might assist another day in the elabo- 

 ration of the genus for the ' Flora of British India.' 



Since arriving at Calcutta I have been able, through the kind- 

 ness of Dr. G-. King, to compare the Calcutta Herbarium, which 

 is immensely rich in Indian material ; and I have been able to 

 nearly complete the paper, so far as the description of the Indian 

 species is concerned ; but in the latter half of the genus I have 

 been unable to touch the synonymy (there is not here even a 

 copy of Bentham's 'Flora Australiensis,' so that I have been 

 obliged to employ MS. names of F. Mueller probably long ago 



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