34 ME. C. B. OLABKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OF CYPEBTJS. 



Series J3. 



Grlumse persistentes ; i. e. spiculae rhachilla a rhachi (omnino 

 vel per articulos) sejungitur, antequam glumae a rhachilla de- 

 cidunt. — Stylus trifidus. 



Subgenus 5. Diclidium. Spiculae rhachilla per articulos dis- 

 juncta. 

 „ 6. Maeiscus (char, amplif.). Spiculae rhachilla con- 

 tinua hasi, saepissime (an semper ?) supra 2 imas 

 glumas vacuas, sejuncta. 

 N.B. Marisci, in speciebus nonnullis, spiculae exstant 1-nuci- 

 gerae; ab his Kyllinga stylo 2-fido. Courtoisia stylobasi pyra- 

 midato persistente, cognosci possunt. 



Subgenus 1. Anospobum. 



[See Sect. II. parag. 1 suprh for the numerous characters by 

 which this plant (I here treat C. cephalotes as the only species of 

 the subgenus) stands apart from Cyperus.] 



1. C. cephalotes (Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 311); umbella dense 

 capitata ; stylo indiviso aut obscure 3-lobo ; nuce stipitata, cel- 

 lulis angulorum suberosis stramineis. — Spreny. Syst. i. p. 218, 

 syn. excl.; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 28; JBenth.l Fl. Austral, vii. 

 p. 263. 



C. monocephalus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 5 ; Fl. Ind. i. p. 188 (non Roxb. 



Ic. ined. in h. Kew.). 

 C. leucocephalus, Wight MS. in h. propr., non Retz. 

 C. monocephaloides, Roxb. ! Ic. ined. in h. Kew. 

 C. Hookerianus, Thwaites ! Enum. PL Zeyl. p. 342, non Am. 

 C. kyllingiaeoides, Willd. h. 1309, plag. 1 (fide Boeck.), non Vahl. 

 ? C. monogynus, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 565. 

 C. natans, Buch.-Ham. MS. in h. propr. 



Anosporum monocephalum, Nees ! in Linneea, ix. p. 287; » w Wight, 

 Contrib. p. 92; Endl. Gen. PI. p. 117; Am. in Edinb. New Phil 

 Joum. xvii. (1834) p. 263 ; Griff. Notul. iii. p. 103 ; Boeck. in Linncea, 

 xxxvi. p. 411 ; F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral, viii. p. 272. 

 A. cephalotes, Kurz\ in Joum. Asiat. Soc. xlv, (18/6) pars 2, p. 159. 

 Ungeria monocephala, Nees ! in Wight h. propr. n. 1855. 

 Trentepohlia bifoliata, Back, in Bot. Zeit. 1858, p. 249. 

 Cyperus sp. n. 21 bis, Herb. Ind. Or., Hook.f.et T. Thorns. 

 Kyllingia, Wall. I List n. 3441, litt. A, D partim. 



In udis radicans, aut saepe in lacubus natans, perennis ; sto- 

 lones teuues lenti. Culmi 1—4 dm., sursum trigoni leves. Folia 



