74 MB. C. B. CLABKE OK INDIAN SPECIES OF CTPEETTS. 



ticis, in dorso subplanis conspicue striato-nervosis ; nuce ma- 

 juscula, rotundato-ellipsoidea, compressa. 

 Cyperus, Wall. I List n. 3342, B. 



Culmus 5-8 dm., solitarius, erectus, crassus, basi compressus, 

 sursum acute triqueter. Folia 3-5, cum § parte culmi ssepe 

 sequilonga, lata 8-14 mm., carinata, in marginibus parum scabra. 

 Bractese 3-6, usque ad 5 dm. longse, 2 cm. latse, foliis similes, 

 basi auriculato-saccatse, patentes. Umbella 3-5 dm- in diam., 

 densa ; radii c. 7, usque ad 5-20 cm. longi ; umbellulse corym- 

 bosse iterum corymbosim subramosse; ochrese usque ad 2 cm. 

 long®, fuscse, truncatse, obscure bilabiatse ; umbellularum bractese 

 Uneari-caudata?. Spicse 2-4 cm. longse, 10-16-spiculosa3 ; rhachis 

 glabra. Spiculse rectangulatim divaricatse, usque ad 2 cm. longse, 

 3-4 mm. latse, 16-36-florse, fuscse ; rhachilla subtetragona, robusta, 

 vix alata ; gluma ima ovato-lanceolata, interdum caudata, ceeteris 

 longior. Grlumse spissse, majusculse, lata?, in marginibus hyalinse ; 

 margines in sicco ssepe involutes. Stamina 3 ; filamenta anguste 

 ligulata, levia ; antherse lineari-oblongse, muticse (obsolete cris- 

 tatse), flavse, sanguineo-maculatse. Stylus brevis ; rami 2, e gluma 

 breviter exserti. Nux majuscula, late rotundata (neque basi 

 angustata), contra rhachillam compressa, in faciebus subconcava, 

 brunnea; cellulse extimse quadratse, hyalinse, persistentes, obscurse. 

 — Species C. procero ab externo similis, cum boc intermixta ; 

 Cypero Monti e visceribus simillima, ab hoc nonnisi infloresceutia 

 laxiore vix distinguenda. — In ripis fluminis Granges per sestus 

 submersa (Roxburgh) ; in ripis fluminis Woosung per sestus sub- 

 mersa (notula Maingayi). 



From Boeckeler's index it appears that his final treatment of 

 C. inundatus, Roxb., is to be found on p. 505, which, after hours 

 of hunting, I have never been able to find. 



Bengaba : Calcutta (Buchanan- Hamilton, h. Wallich n. 3342 B 

 in h. Linn. Soc. ; Kurz, h. Calcutta) • in lacubus Jheels dictis 

 (T. Anderson, h. Calcutta ; tyc.) ; Burisaul (C B. Clarke 

 n. 8460, h. Kevo). 

 China : Shanghai (Maingay n. 639, h. Calcutta). 



41. C. alopecueoldes (Bottb. Bescr. et Ic. p. 38, t. 8. fig. 2) ; 

 umbella composita aut decomposita, densispiculosa ; spicis cylin- 

 dricis, undique densissime spiculigeris ; glumis ovatis, breviter 

 mucronatis aut lanceolatis ; nuce parva, ellipsoidea, compressa, 

 pallide brunnea aut straminea. — B. Br. Prod. p. 217 ; Nees in 



