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55. C. compeessus (Linn. ! Sp. PI p. 68, et kpropr.) ; viridis ; 



umbella specie simplice, laxa, spiculis lineari-oblongis ; glumis 



ovatis, acuminatis, acutis, carinatis, multinerviis ; styli ramis 3, e 



gluma vix exsertis ; nuce obovoidea, obtusissima, triquetra facie- 



bus subconcavis. — Bottb. Descr. et Ic. p. 27, t. 9. fig. 3 ; Boxb. 



Fl. Ind. i. p. 194; H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p. 207 ; Torrey, 



in Ann. Lyceum New York, in. p. 270 ; Meyer, in Mem. Acad. 



St. Petersb. 6 ser. i. t. 3 (non visa) ; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 23 ; 



Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 77, in Mart. Brasil., Cyp. p. 29 ; 



Eassk. PI Jav. Bar. p. 77 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. PI. p. 282; Baker, 



Fl. Maurit. p. 410 ; Saunders fy Baker, Bef. Bot. t. 240; Boeck. 



in Linnasa, xxxv. p. 517 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. p. 372 ; non 

 Jacq. 



C. brachiatus, Poir. Encyc. vii. p. 259. 



C. conglomerate, Willd. Enum. Suppl. p. 5 (fide Nees). 



C. pectiniformis, Roem. et Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. p. 128, syn. Roxb. excl. ; 



Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 77> syn. excl. 

 C. Meyenii, Nees et Meyen in PL Meyen. p. 57. 

 Cyperus, Wall. ! List a. 3308. 

 Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3314 C. 

 Cyperus, Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 12, n. 167. 

 Cyperus, Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 362, n. 1.91. 



— Sloane, Jamaica, i. p. 117» t. 76. fig. 1. 



— Pluh Aim. t. 417. fig. 2(?). 



Radix fibrosa. Culmi caaspitosi, 1-35 cm. longi, trigoni, leves. 

 Folia 2-3, viridia, cum culmo saepe aequilonga, sursumvix scabra. 

 Umbella 7-2-radiata (interdum capitata); radii usque ad 6-16 

 cm. longi ; ocbrese 5-15 mm. long®, truncatse. Involucri bracteae 

 3-5, usque ad 10-15 cm. longse, patentes. TJmbellulae 5-12-spi- 

 culosae, congestim corymbosae, saepius e spica simplice constantes. 

 Spicule long* 1-3 cm., lata* 4 mm., 12-40-norae, lateribus paral- 

 lels a mucronibus glumarum quasi serratis, inferiores saspe 

 caudato-bracteata? ; rbachilla admodum compressa, subexalata. 

 Glumse nayiculares, vix approximatae, adpresso-imbricata*, albo- 

 virides vix fusco-spadiceaa ; nervi 9-13 per totam fere latitudmem 

 glumas sparsi. Stamina 3; antherae muticae vix apicute, m- 

 dusa3; filamenta subpersistentia. Nux i parte gluime paullo 

 longior, non apicata, nigra ; ceUulsa extim* quadratae, albidae, per- 

 sistentes.-Quoad magnitudinem quam plant* tarn spicularum 

 variabilis : in forma Americana vulgari spiculae minores ; in India 

 Orientali spicule interdum majores (forma « pectimformts ), in 

 exemplo Jacquemontiano late lanceolatae, 6-7 mm. latae. t. pec- 



LINN. JOUEN. — BOTANY, YOL. XXI. 



