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are irresistibly led to the suspicion that further collections in 

 other areas may lead us to regard 0. atronitens &c. as varieties. 



Besides the "forms" mentioned above, a plant, Main gay n. 637, 

 collected at Shanghai, with the glumes green and chestnut-brown, 

 has exactly the external aspect of G. Fragrostis ; but, on cutting 

 up, is found to be unmistakably C. globosus. 



C. complanatus, Steud. Cyp. p. 3, is an amalgam of C. compla- 

 natus, Presl, with Kotschy n. 358, which is C. rotundus, Linn, 

 (mihi), and is C. stoloniferus, var. pallida, Boeck. 



14. C. poltstachtus {Rottb. JDescr. et Ic. p. 39, t. 11. fig. 1, 

 nuce et pistillo excl.) ; umbella composita, specie ssepe simplice 

 autcapitata; spiculis fasciculatis aut spicatis, numerosis, multi- 

 floris, compressis, anguste oblongis, pallidis, fuscis aut rubescen- 

 tibus ; glumis spissis, ovatis, vix acutis ; nuce oblonga, basi 

 conica, apice truncata, compressa faciebus convexis. — Vahl,Enum. 

 ii. p. 315 ; Roem. et Sch. Syst. ii. p. 175 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 193 ; 

 JVees in Wight Contrib. p. 75 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 13 ; Hook. 

 Niger Fl. p. 549 ; Meyer, Prim. Esseq. p. 27 ; Hassle. Fl. Jav. 

 Far. p. 74 ; Balz. and Oils. Bomb. Fl. p. 281 ; Bertol. Fl. Ital. i. 

 p. 257 ; Guss. Fl. Ins. Inarime, p. 347 ; Pari. Fl. Ital ii. p. 25 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. in. p. 258 ; F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral. 

 viii. p. 265 ; Benth. Fl. HongTc. p. 385, Fl. Austral, vii. p. 261 ; 

 Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 477 ; Boiss. Fl Orient, v. p. 365 ; Coss. 

 Fxpl Alger., Bot. iii. p. 253. 



C. fascicularis, Lam. III. i. p. 144, t. 38. fig. 2; Desf.l Fl. Atl.i. 

 p. 44. 



C. csespitosus, Poir. Encyc. vii. p. 250; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 109 ; Htok. 

 et Am. ! Bot. Beechey Voy. p. 99. 



C. subulatus, R. Br. Prodr. p. 217. 



C. brizreus, Presl, Pel. Haenk. i. p. 168, non Rich. 



C. Sonderi, Schmidt, Fl. Ins. Vir. p. 162; Steud. Cyp. p. 8. 



C. strigosus, Wight ! h. propr. n. 1811, non Linn. 



C. corymbosus, Roxb. ! in h. propr. et Ic. ined. in h. Kew, non Rottb. 



C. paniculatus, Hook, et Am. Bot. Beechey Voy. p. 99, vix Rottb. 



C. polystachyus, var. 8. ferruginea, Boeck. ! in Flora, 18/9, p. 548 (non 

 Boeck. in Linn&a, xxxv. p. 4/9). 



Pycreus polystachyus, Beauv. Fl. d'Owar. ii. p. 48, t. 86. fig. 2j Nees 

 in Linnaa, ix. p. 283. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3340. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3333. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3320 litt. A partim. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3332 litt. B partim. 



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