108 ME. 0. B. CLABEE ON INDIAN SPECIES OE CYPEBUS. 



(Heifer n. 6247/1, hh. Keu>, Calcutta) ; Amherst (Wallich, 

 h. propr.). 

 Ins. Philippine (Cuming n. 1417, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit.). 

 Australia tropicalis (B. Brown n. 5917, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit.); 

 Queensland, Bockhampton (Amalia Dietrich a. 600, h. Mus. 

 Brit.). 

 Brasil (Burchell nn. 8186, 8267, h. Kew). 

 G-uiana Anglica (Schomburgk n. 810, h. Kew). 

 Kunth describes (Enum. ii. p. 44) C. coronarius from Bengal, 

 which he says was Scirpus coronarius, Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 261, et 

 herb., from which I infer Kunth had Vahl's specimen ; and he 

 says the style was 3-fid (not 2-fid as Vahl), which he would only 

 have said from a dissection of Vahl's plant. There is no Bengal 

 plant under this name in the English herbaria nor in Calcutta ; 

 nor is there any Bengal plant that will answer the description 

 except C. niveus, which common species Kunth knew too well to 

 describe over again under the name O. coronarius. C. coronarius 

 might be C. leucocephalus, which has sometimes (fide Boeckeler) 

 " rhizoma obliquum." 



65. C. ntvetts (Betz. Obs. v. p. 12) ; culmis in apice rhizomatis 

 repentis obliqui dense uniseriatim stipatis, incrassatis, apice 

 ipso trigonis ; umbella capitata ; spiculis majusculis, compressis, 

 albidis aut cinnamomeis ; nuce late obovoidea, obtusissima, acute 

 subaequaliter triquetra, faciebus 3 subconcavis. — Boxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. p. 191 ; Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 78 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 45 ; 

 Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 530 (non in Flora, 1879, p. 550). 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3377. 



Ehizoma lignosum, tenuius. Culmi 1-5 dm. longi. Folia 3-6, 

 cum | parte culmi sequilonga, vel abbreviata, marginibus in sicco 

 involutis. Involucri bractese ssepissime 2, longae 2-6 cm., deflexo- 

 patentes, basi non dilatatse. Spiculse 3-15, usque ad 2 cm. longae, 

 6 mm. Iata3, 20-40-flora3, admodum compress®, utrinque augus- 

 tatae ; rhachilla exalata. Grlumae dense imbricatse, spissae, ovatae, 

 obtusaa, compressse, in dorso concoloriter 1-nerviae, in lateribus 

 plicatim multistriatae. Stamina 3; filamenta anguste ligulata, 

 persistentia ; anther® lineari-oblongae, mutic®, e gluma vix ex- 

 sertaa. Stylus nuce brevior ; rami 3, e gluma breviter exserti. 

 Nux cum i parte glumae sequilonga, in apice truncata, sub- 

 depressa, nigra ; cellulae extimae quadratae, albidae, hyalinae, de- 

 tergibiles (i. e. "nux reticulatim albo-velata"). 



