86 ME. C. B. CLARKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OF CYPERTJS. 



C. glareosus, Liebm.l Mew. Half gr.^p- 16. 



Cyperus sp. n. 24, Herb. Ind. Or., Hook. f. et T. Thorns. 



Radix annua, tenuiter fibrosa. Culmi csespitosi, pauci, longi 

 2-17 cm., trigoni, leves. Folia 2-3, culmo (saepius multo) bre- 

 viora. Inrolucri bractese plures, 1-10 cm., in umbellis bene 

 evolutis umbella ssepius breviores. Umbellse radii 4-15, usque 

 ad 1-11 cm. longi, tenues ; umbella ssepius specie simplex aut 

 capitata, sed umbellularum radioli interdum 3-6, usque ad 1-5 

 cm. longi. Spicula? in unoquoque radio 5-20, radiatim digitatse, 

 bracteatae (*. e. capitulum revera compositum) aut ebracteatae, 

 usque ad 24 mm. longse, 1-2 mm. latse, 16-28-flora3 aut rarius 

 40-50-florai ; rb.acb.illa tenuis. Glumso subdistantes, in sicco vix 

 imbricata), ovataD, in dorso viridi-3-5-7-nervia>, in lateribus hya- 

 linse nitide brunnese. Stamen (in plants Indiea) 1 ; anthera 

 minima, oblonga, mutica, e gluma non exserta. Stylus nuce 

 brevior ; rami 3, e gluma brevissime exserti. Nux obtusissima, 

 symmetrice subacute trigona, lucide brunnea ; cellulse extimse 

 quadratae, hyalinse, persistentes nee porosse. 



[C. glareosus, Liebm., a Mexico, paullo recedit ; in hoc spiculaa 

 pallidiores, glumse conspicue 3-neryise, mucro cum | parte glumaa 

 sequilongus.] 



India orientalis, Africa tropicalis et australis cum insulis, et 

 America tropicalis. 



India orientalis, boreali-occidentalis, et centralis : Cbota 



Nagpore, alt. 1-600 metr. frequens (C. B. Clarke n. 24889) ; 



Moradabad (T. Thomson, hh. Kew, Calcutta, n. 393 h. Mus. 



Brit.) ; Naini Tal (Col. Davison, h. Kew) ; Kumaon ( G. King, 



h. Calcutta). 

 Insula? Mascarenses &c. : Socotra (Balfour, h. Calcutta) ; Ma- 



yotta (Boivin, h. Kew) ; Nossibe (Berville n. 488, h. Kew) ; 



Madagascar (Gerard n. 95, h. Kew, Perville n. 521, h. 



Kew). 

 Africa, centralis et australis: Nubia (Kotschy n. 139, hh. Kew, 



Mus. Brit.) ; Ador (Petherick, h. Kew) ; Djur et Bongo 



(Schivemfurth nn. 193, 2183, 2256, h. Kew) ; Quorra flumen 



(Vogel n. 193, h. Kew) ; Africa australi-occidentalis, lat, 



austr. 23° (Chapman et Baines, h. Kew); Goldfields, lat. austr. 



27° (Baines, h. Kew). 

 America: Cuba (C. Wright n. 3356, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit.); 



Orizaba (F. Mueller n. 1986, h. Keio); Guatemala (Skinner 



h. Kew); Surinam (Weigelt, h. Mus. Brit. = C. coercens, 



