104 ME. C. B. CLAEKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OP CTPEETJS. 



61. C glabee (Linn. Mant. p. 179) ; umbella specie simplice, 

 congesta vel contracta; spiculis numerosis, capitato-spicatis, 

 longis, multifloris, compress!*; staminibus 3; nuce cum £-§ 

 parte glumae aequilonga, obovoidea, trigona, apice brevissime 

 rostrata. — Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 516. 



C. patulus, Kitaib. in Host, Gram. iii. p. 49, t. 74 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 

 p. 24. 



C. fuscus, var. virescens, Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 38, nee C. virescens, 

 Hoffm. 



C. erythrseus, Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 27, non Schrad. ( fide Boeclc.). 



Grlumae ovatae, obtusae, submucronatae, in dorso late virides 

 5-7-nerviae, in lateribus anguste rubro-striatae, in marginibus 

 scariosae. Stamina 3 ; filamenta fere levia ; antherae lineari- 

 oblongae flavidae, a crista parva, subquadrata, coccinea cristatae. 



Sicilia (Todaro, h. Calcutta). 



Ischia (Bentham, h. Calcutta). 



Tauria (h. Calcutta). 



Iberia ( Wilhelms, ft. Calcutta). 



62. C. etjbicttndijs (Vail, Enum. ii. p. 308) ; umbella capitata; 

 spiculis majusculis, compressis, oblongis, rubicundis vel cinna- 

 momeis ; involucri bracteis 2-3, capitulum aequantibus vel duplo 

 superantibus ; nuce obovoidea aut late ellipse-idea, quam 3 pars 

 glumae breviore. — Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 49 ; Webb et Berth. lies 

 Canaries, Phyt. iii. p. 361, t. 240 (nuce nimis elongata, acuta) ; 

 Boeclc. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 507. 



C. pectinatus, Roxb. ! Fl. Ind. i. p. 190, non Vahl. 



C. Teneriffse, Poir. Encyc. vii. p. 245 ; Roem. et Sch. Syst. ii. p. 209 ; 



Nees in Linncea, x. p. 131 (?). 

 C. coromandelinus, Spreng. Syst. i. p. 217, non Boeck. 

 C. Wightii, Neesl in Wight Contrib. p. 78; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. ^'1 



Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 507. 

 C. Serra, A. Rich. ! Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 479. 

 C. petrseus, Hochst. in Hohenack. n. 1293. 

 C. nitens, Rottler in h. propr., non Vahl. 

 Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3314 B, A partim. 



Radix annua, fibrosa. Culmi 1-2 dm. longi, caespitosi, basi 

 saepe incrassati, sursum trigoni, leves. Folia 2-3, anguste gra- 

 minea, saepius culmo multo breviora, vel (in exemplo typico 

 Neesiano C. Wightii) longiora ; vaginae saepe majusculse, laxae. 

 Involucri bracteae usque ad 2-5 cm. long®, saepius capitulum 

 parum superantes, patulae. Spiculae 4-15, longae 23 mm., latae 



