60 ME. C. B. CLAEKE OS INDIAN SPECIES OF CYPEETTS. 



The nut is perhaps hardly smaller than in C. Fragrostis type, 

 but I have written up this name in European herbaria and cannot 

 alter it. 



17. C. thstoloides (B. Br. ! Prod. p. 216) ; umbella simplice 

 aut subcapitata; spiculis breviter spicatis, magnis, compressis, 

 lanceolatis, pallide brunneis ; glumis spissis, carinatis, acutis ; 

 mice cum |-^ parte gluma? sequilonga, obovoidea. — Kunth, Fnum. 

 ii. p. 112 ; Bentk. Fl. Austral, vii. p. 260. 



C. lanceus, F. Muell. Fragm, Phyt. Austral, viii. p. 259, non Thunb. 



C. luteolus, Boeck. ! in Flora, 18/5, p. 82. 



Badix fibrosa. Culmi 4-8 dm., sursum trigoni, leves. Folia 

 2-4, cum § parte culmi sequilonga, in margiuibus antice spi- 

 nuloso-scabra. Bractea? 3-4, longa? (interdum usque ad 3-4 dm.), 

 antice spinuloso-scabra?, foliis similes. Umbella? radii 1-5, usque 

 ad 5 cm. longi, ssepius breves aut brevissimi; ocbrea? 1 cm., 

 augusta?, truncatee. Spicse longa? 0-1 cm., ebracteata?, 4-12- 

 spiculosaa. Spicula? longa? 8-18 mm., lata? 4-7 mm., 10-22-flora?, 

 a bracteola lineari longa 3-7 mm. interdum suffulta? ; rhachiUa 

 fere exalata ; gluma ima parva, oblonga. Gluma? ovata?, com- 

 pressa?, subturgida?, in dorso viridi-3-nervia?, in lateribus ener- 

 vosa?, lucide luteo-brunnese, leves, in marginibus hyalina? in sicco 

 crispato-undulata?. Tilamenta 3, persistentia ; authera? lineari- 

 oblongae, mutica?. Stylus cum nuce a?quilongus; rami 2, e 

 gluma breviter exserti. Nux leviter compressa, nigra ; cellulae 

 extima? quadrata?, emarcida?, opaca?, alba?, porosa?. 



Australia, tropicalis et temperata ; varr. in India, Capite Bonse 

 Spei et America calidiore etiam extensis. 



Australia (B. Brown n. 5900, Tih. Kew, Mus. Brit.); Queens- 

 land {Am. Dietrich n. 612, h. Mus. Brit.); Queensland, 

 Brisbane fl. (F. Mueller, h. Kew); Victoria, Hume flum. 

 (F. Mueller, h. Kew). 



Var. fl. angulata ; nuce subobtuse obovoidea, in altero margine 

 interdum subacuta, cellulis extimis late porosis (si mavis nuce 

 albo-reticulata). 



C. angulatus (sp.), Nees ! in Wight Contrib. p. 73 ; Boeck. ! in Linncea, 



xxxv. p. 465. 

 C. spinuliferus, Boeck. ! in Linncea, xxxv. p. 465. 

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

 Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3321 (omnino). 

 Cyperacea, Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 90, n. 1327. 



