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** Umbella capitata. 



43. C. LiEYiGATirs (Linn. ! Mant. p. 79) ; rbizomate repente ; 



umbella capitata, specie laterali; involucri bracteis 2, altero 



quasi culinum producente; glumis spiseis, concavis, obtusis, 



albis, pallidis aut castaneo-maculatis ; nuce obovoidea aut ellip- 



soidea, obtusa, cum § parte glumae asquilonga. — Rottb. JDescr. et 



Ic. p. 19, t. 16. fig. 1 ; BoecJc. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 486 ; Benth. Fl. 



Austral, vii. p. 263 ; Cosson, Fxpl. Alger., Glum. p. 250; Boiss. 



Fl. orient, v. p. 366 ; Ser. Watson, Bot. California, ii. p. 214. 



C. mucronatus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. p. 19, t. 8. fig. 4 ; H. B. K. Nov. 



Gen. et Sp. i. p. 203 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 185 ; Nees in Wight 



Contrib. p. 72 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 1/ ; Webb et Berth. lies Canaries, 



Phyt. iii. p. 360; Pari. Fl. Ital. ii. p. 21 ; C. Gay, Hist. Chile, vi. 



p. 163 ; Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 27 ; Liebm. HJex. Halfgr. p. 15 ; Griseb. 



Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 362. 



C. lateralis, ForsJc. Fl. JEg. Arab. p. 13; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 186, Ic. 



ined. t. 2014 in h. Kew ; Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 73. 

 C. pleuranthus, Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 73. 

 C. leucostachys, Willd. ; Link, Jahrb. iii. p. 81. 

 C. monostachyus, Link ! in Buch. Ins. Canaries, p. 138, non Rottb. 

 C. acuininatus, Roxb. h. propr., Ic. ined. t. 704 in h. Kew. 

 C. Cossyrensis, Tineo in Guss. Fl. Sicul. ii. p. 779. 

 C viridulus et C. reptans, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 485. 

 C. rivularis, Steud. in Lechler n. 1547, non Kunth. 

 Pycreus mucronatus et P. lateralis, Nees in Linnaa, ix. p. 283. 

 P. lsevigatus, Nees in Linnaa, x. p. 130. 

 Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3311. 



Kbizoma modo breve, culmis uniseriatini adgregatis, modo 

 elongatmn, a vaginis laxis castaneis ornatum, culmos distantes 

 proferens. Culmi 1-5 dm., tenues aut crassiusculi, sursum tri- 

 gone, leves ; vaginas 2-3, longiusculae, truncatae, basin arete inte- 

 gentes. Folia interdum cum culmo asquilonga, straminea, 

 involuta, saepius brevia, baud raro omnia ad mucrones vagina- 

 rum fere reducta. Involucri bracteae 2, altera erecta, 2-10 cm. 

 longa, foliis similis, basi interdum dilatata, altera multo brevior, 

 patens. Spiculae dense congests, 10-30, aut in formis debilibus 

 vel alpinis 10-1, longas 1 cm., latae 2 mm., 16-40-florae, compress®, 

 turgid®. Glumas dense imbricatae, albidae, saepe plus minus cas- 

 taneo-niaculatse, in dorso pallidas aut fuscae, raro virides ; nervi 

 7-11 per § latitudinem glumas extensi; rhacliilla tetragona, ex- 

 cavata, non alata. Stamina 3 ; filameuta late ligulata, fere levia j 

 anther® oblong®, flav®, a crista lanceolata, rubra, scabra, terrni- 



