56 ME. C. B. CLABKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OF CTPEEUS. 



C. Louisiana, Steud. Cyp. p. 10 (ex descr.). 



C. polystachyus, var. macrostachya, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 4/9. 



Torreya caespitosa, Rafin. in Journ. de Phys, lxxxix. p. 105 (fide 



Kunth). 

 America borealis: Canada (Goldie, h. Calcutta) ; New Jersey 

 (Torrey n. 69, h. Kew; Asa Gray, h. Calcutta); Virginia 

 (Greville, h. Calcutta); Florida (Chapman, h. Kew; Curtiss 

 n. 3050, h. Mus. Brit.) ; New Orleans (Drummond n. 3816, 

 Jih. Kew, Mus. Brit) ; Mexico (F. Midler n. 2155, h. Kew). 

 Ins. Bahama (Brace n. 493, h. Kew). 



This var. (of which I suppose var. i. Cleaverii is merely a 

 starved form) may perhaps advantageously be treated as a species : 

 it has always a simple umbel, whereas in other varieties and 

 examples of C. polystachyus the umbellules appear to me really 

 with divided axes. 



Var. e. Cleaverii: culmis unicam spiculam, ei C.Jilicini similem, 

 proferentibus. 



0. Cleaverii (sp.), Torrey ! in Ann. Lyceum New York, iii. p. 258 in 



nota ; Steud. Cyp. p. 13. 

 C. minimus ?, Nutt. Gen. i. p. 35, non Thunb. 

 C. tenellus, Torrey in Ann. Lyceum New York, iii. p. 257, non Linn. 



New Jersey (Cleaver, h. Carey in h. Kew). 



15. C. sulcintjx ; umbella simplice ; spiculis breviter spicatis 

 ant fasciculatis, multifloris, compressis, linearibus, pallidis ; glu- 

 mis ovatis, obtusis ; nuce oblonga, compressa, faciebus concavis. 



Annua, tenuior. Culmi 5-40 cm., apice trigoni, leves. Folia 

 2-3, perangusta, cum culmo aequilonga aut saepius multo bre- 

 viora, levia. Bracteae 3-8, angustae, modo 12 cm. longae, um- 

 bellam longe superantes, modo umbella breviores. Radii 3-8 

 usque ad 1 dm. longi, graciles, aut umbella parvula subcapitata ; 

 ochreae usque ad 1 cm. longae, angustae, subtruncatse. Spiculse 

 in unoquoque radio 6-12, longae 1-3 cm., latae vix 2 mm., 10-50- 

 florae, erectae aut patulae ; rhachilla vix alata ; gluma ima minuta, 

 bracteaeformis. Glumae subremote imbricatae, in dorso carinatae, 

 3-5-nerviae, fuscae, in lateribus enervosae, pallida? aut obscure 

 rubro-notatae Stamina 2 ; antherae lineari-oblongae, muticae, 

 flavae, apice rubro. Stylus brevis; rami 2, breves, e gluma 

 parum exserti, Nux -j partem glumae paullo superans, apice 

 truncata brevissime apicata, in utraque facie sulcato-coneava, 

 subsymmetrica aut in margine axin versus spectante obliqua, 



