42 ME. C. B. CLARKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OF CTPEETJS. 



apice ssepe castanese. Stamina 2. Stylus brevis ; rami 2 e gluma 

 breviter exserti. Nux cum j-| parte glumae aequilonga, vix com- 

 pressa ; cellulae extimae albescentes, inconspicuse. 



Abyssinia (Schimper u. 1602, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit, cum Fimbri- 

 stylide intermixta ; Schimper n. 1311, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit. ; 

 Schimper n. 1213, h. Kew admixta). 

 Himalaya occidentalis (Munro, h. Kew) : Kumaon, alt. 1800 

 metr. (Strachey et Winterbottom, h. Kew) ; Sikkim (J. B. 

 Hooker, h. Calcutta). 



ft Species in Indid Orientali nondum repertce. 



6. C. hacbanthtjs (Boeck. in Binncea, xxxv. p. 462) ; umbella 

 pauciradiata, coutracta aut capitata ; spiculis magnis, compressis, 

 nigro-castaneis ; glumis ovatis, obtusis ; nuce cum \ parte glumae 

 vix aequilonga, cellulis extimis oblongis. 



C. permutatus, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 477- 



Africa australis (Zeyher n. 1745, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit.) ; 

 Macalisterberg (Burke, h. Calcutta) ; Boscbberg (MacOwan 

 n. 1365, h. Kew, n. 1362, h. Mus. Brit.) ; Natal (Wood, h. 

 Kew ; Sutherland, h. Kew ; fyc). 



7. C. nigeicans (Steud. Gyp. p. 12) ; umbella contracta, 

 1-3-radiata aut capitata ; glumis inajusculis, nigris, in dorso viri- 

 dibus ; nuce obovoidea, vix compressa, cellulis extimis oblongis. 

 — A. Bich. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 476 ; Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 462. 



Abyssinia (Schimper nn. 1286, 1373, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit.). 



8. C. lanceolattts (Poir. Encyc. vii. p. 245) ; umbella 1-pauci- 

 radiata, radiis brevibus ; spiculis multifloris, oblongis, subturgidis ; 

 glumis ovatis obtusis, in latere castaneo-rubescentibus ; nuce 

 ellipsoidea, brunnescente, cellulis extimis oblongis. — Kunth, Enum. 

 ii. p. 9 ; Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 442. 



C. intermedius, Steud. in Flora, 1842, p. 581 ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. 



p. 483 (sub Eucypero perperam ordinata) ; Boeck. in Linnaa, xxxv. 



p. 450, var. /3 excl. 

 C. Eragrostis, Krauss in Flora, 1845, p. 754, non Vahl. 

 Abyssinia (Schimper n. 1267, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit. ; Schimper 



n. 1243, h. Mus. Brit., h. Kew partim). 

 Madagascar (Blackburn, h. Kew). 



This species is remote from C. Eragrostis by the surface-cells of 

 the nut; it stands between C.Jlavescens and C. latispicatus, dif- 



