46 MB. C. B. CLAEKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OF CTPEBUS. 



Var. y. punctata (sp. Roxb. ! h. propr., Fl. Ind. i. p. 193, tab. 

 Pluk. excl., non Roxb. Ic. ined. in h. Kew) ; spiculis paullo 

 laxius spicatis, staminibus 2. — Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 4, syn. excl. 



C. pumilus, Benth. ! Fl. Austral, vii. p. 258. 



Cyperus, sp., Wall. List n. 3312 litt. A, H; litt. B, C, E, partim. 



C. punctatus, Roxb. Ic. ined. in h. Kew mihi species ignota est ; 

 nisi (ut vereor) e duabus speciebus composita fuerit. 



India (Roxburgh, h. Kew ; Wallich n. 3312 A, h. Linn. Soc.) ; 

 Monghvr (Buchanan-Hamilton., Wallich n. 3312 E, partim, 

 h. Linn. Soc.) ; Bengal (J~. D. Hooker, h. Kew) ; Eangoon 

 (Wallichn.. 3312 H, hh. Linn. Soc, Mus. Brit., Calcutta ; B. 

 Scott, h. Calcutta) ; Tenasserim (Heifer, h. Kew n. 6209/2) ; 

 Malaya (Kunstler n. 62, h. Calcutta) 



Australia tropicalis: Rockhampton (0' Shaughnessy , h. Kew) ; 

 Portus Denison (Fitzalan, h. Kew). 



12. C. hyalinus (Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 329) ; umbella simplice ; 

 spiculis spicatis, admodum compressis, oblongis, pallidis ; glumis 

 mucronatis, in unoquoque latere lato conspicue 2-3-costatis ; sta- 

 minibus 2 ; nuce late ellipse-idea, obtusa, cum 4, parte glumae 

 sequilonga. — Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 3 ; Boeck. ! in Linncea, xxxv. 

 p. 482. 



C. pumilus, Nees ! in Wight Contrib. p. 74, syn. omn. excl. ; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. p. 4, pro majore parte ; Steud. Syn. p. 3 partim, non 

 Linn. 



C. strictus, Wight ! h. propr., non Roxb. 



Pycreus pumilus, Nees in Linncea, ix. p. 283. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3336 partim. 



Annua, glabra, radicibus tenuiter fibrosis. Culmi 5-28 cm., 

 sursum trigoni, leves. Folia 2-4, cum culmo ssope sequilonga, 

 lata 5 mm., levia, flaccida. Bracteae 5-6, longse 5-16 cm., latius- 

 culse, foliis similes. Umbella 5-8-radiata; radii 0-1 dm. longi; 

 ochreae longse 15 mm., truncatae. Spicse longse 0-15 mm., 5-20- 

 spiculosse, ebracteatse ; rhachis 4-alata. Spiculse rectangulatim 

 patulse, longse 9 mm., latse 4 mm., 8-florse ; rhachillse alse per- 

 angustse, persistentes ; glumse 2 imse parvulse, quadratse. Grlumse 

 imbricatse, paullo distantes, naviculares, summopere compressae ; 

 carina (cum 3-5 nervis adjectis) viridis, excurrens, sursum (in 

 exemplis explanatis) serrulato-scabra ; latera lucide alba, a cel- 

 lulis laxis laete reticulata, a nervis consj)icue striata. Antherae 

 lineari-oblongse, muticae, luteae. Stylus nuce multo brevior ; rami 



