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C. Fontanesii (sp.), Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 5 1 Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. 



p. 438. 

 C. stramineus, Desf. MS. 



Causa glumarum minus spisse imbricatarum, bractearum diva- 

 ricatarum, C.Jtavescenti quam C. stramineo affinior. Mihi videtur 

 forma hortulana, invalida aut morbosa, in hypocaustis fortasae 

 culta. Nux &c. omnino C.flavescentis. — Exempla parvula (non 

 culta) C. flavescentis, culmis 5-6 cm. longis 1-5-spiculosis, a C. 

 Fontanesii tamen longius distant culmis multo minus tenuibus, 

 spiculis latioribus, flavescentibus. 



Patria iguota (in horto Kew culta, h. Calcutta). 



3. C. steamineus (Nees ! in Wight Contrib. p. 74); umbeila 

 pauciradiata, congesta, spiculis laxius antice fastigiatis, bracteis 

 2, longiore jam fructus tempore erecto ; spiculis lineari-oblongis, 

 multifloris, stramineis ; glumis spissis, ovatis, subacutis. — Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. p. 9. 



C. capillaris, Hochst. ! in PL Hohen. n. 302, non Koen. 



C. coromandelinus, Boeck. ! in Linncea, xxxv. p. 480, non Spreng. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3320 B partim. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3318 partim. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! Cyp. indet. n. 1. 



G-labra, csespitosa ; radicibus fibrosis, a nota Hooker filii aro- 

 maticis. Culrai 1-3 dm., tenuiores, curvati, sursura obscurius 

 trigoni, leves. Folia 3-5, cum culmo ssepe aequilonga, angusta, 

 levia. Bracteae 2, rarius 3, major usque ad 8-10 cm. Jonga, 

 erecta, fere quasi culmi continuatio. Umbellae radii 1-4, rarius 

 1-3 cm. longi, sEepius brevissimi, 5-15-spieulosae. Spiculse longae 

 10-35 mm., lata? 2-3 mm.. 15-70-flora?, leviter compressae; rha- 

 chilla fere exalata; gluma ima parva, ovata, bracteaeformis. 

 Glumse carinatse, subturgidae, in dorso viridescentes 1-3-nerviae, 

 in lateribus enervosaa, luteo-hyalum Stamina 2 ; filamenta per- 

 sistentia, squamoso-papilloso-scabra ; autherae lineari-oblongse, 

 muticae, flavse. Stylus nuce subbrevior ; rami 2, e gluma plane 

 exserti. Nux cum ^-| parte glumae aequilonga, obovoidea, leviter 

 compressa, obtusa, breviter apicata, nigra ; cellular extmiae longi- 

 tudinaliter oblongae, emarcidae, albidae, detergibiles, ideoque nux 

 transversim interrupte albo-notata.— A C. flavescente (quoad 

 exempla hujus parvula monocephala) vix, nisi a bracteis fructus 

 tempore suberectis, distinguenda.— In Thwaites C. P. n. 3776, 

 bracteaa 3, subpatulaa sed glumae subacutas.—O. coromandelinus, 



