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Asia occidentalis : Syria (Bove, h. Kew); Aleppo (Russell, 

 h. Mus. Brit.) ; Bagdad (BZaussknecht, h. Mus. Brit.). 



India, communis, praesertim in planitie tropicali: Kashmir 

 (Jacquemont n. 1087, h. Kew) ; Punjab (T. Thomson, h. Cal- 

 cutta) ; Lucknow (T. Anderson, n. 14, Ji. Calcutta) ; Beugalia 

 (Roxburgh, h. Mus. Brit.; Griffith n. 6185, h. Calcutta; 

 C. B. Clarke n. 11740) ; Madras Peninsula (Wight n. 1807, 

 h. Keiu ; Wight n. 2862, h. Calcutta ; G. Thomson, h. Cal- 

 cutta); Ceylon (Thwaites C. P. n. 3947, h. Mus. Brit.). 



Burma (Wallich n. 3484 partira, h.propr.); Meaday (R. Scott, 

 h. Calcutta) ; Pegu (Kurz n. 646, h. Calcutta). 



Amurland : TJssuri (Maach, h. Kew). 



China : Shanghai (Maingay n. 634, h. Calcutta). 



Australia subtropicalis (Bidwell n. 142, h. Kew) ; Victoria fl. 

 (F. Mueller, h. Kew). 



Var. ? (3. Aztecorum ; spiculis planis ; glumis ovatis, distanter 

 3-nerviis ; nuce a basi lata ovoidea subconica, stramineo-brunnea, 

 quasi-scabrida. 



C. pygmseus, Liebm. Mex. Halfgr. p. 15. 



Culmi folia inflorescentia C. pygrnai. 



Mexico : Pital (Liebmann, h. Kew). 



Cuba : Havana (Liebmann, h. Kew). 



Subgenus 4. Eucypeetjs. 



Eucyperus, BoecTc. in Zinncea, xxxv. p. 493 (sect. Spicatis 

 Leptostachyis, Marisco, Diclidio exclusis).—EucyperuB (cum 

 maxima parte Papyri), Benth. et Sook.f. Gen. PL iii. pp. 1043, 

 1044.— Cyperus (C), Kunth, Knum. ii. p. 20 (pro maxima 

 parte). 



Stylus 3-fidus. Nux (interdum ina>qualiter) trigona aut sub- 

 rotunda. 



Species plurim*. Habitus generis.-Spicul* multiflor*, raro 



pluri-(4-6-)llora3. 



This subgenus contains the great bulk of the genus ; Fycreus 

 m&Juncellus are comparatively small groups, of convenient size, 

 split off from it by (what I hold) definite characters. Dtchdium 

 mUMariscus are two more groups of convenient size which I 

 here cut off by (what I hope will be found) definite characters. 

 There still remains an enormous mass of species, which Boeckeler 

 is only able to deal with by forming clusters of aUied species, 

 nowhere separated from each other by contrasted differential (nor 



