110 ME. C. B. CLAEKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OF CTPEETTS. 



3-4, usque ad 1-3 cm. longi, vel umbella fere congesta. Spiculse 

 usque ad 18 mm. longse, 4-5 mm. latse, 20-30-flora?, admodum 

 compressae, lateribus fere parallelis ; rhachilla subexalata. Grlumae 

 spissse, ovatse, obtusiusculae, breviter mucronatse, naviculares, per 

 totam fere latitudinem multistriatse, nervis cinnamomeis. Sta- 

 mina 3 ; filamenta ligulata, persistentia ; antherse lineares, muticae. 

 Stylus nuce subbrevior ; rami 3, e gluma plane exserti. Nux £ 

 parte glumse longior, obtusa, in facie interiore vix concava, in 

 dorso angulata nee earinata, fusco-castanea ; cellulse extimse 

 quadratae, minutae. — C. niveo affinis, sed C. niveum umbelJa 

 radiata nondum visi. 



India boreali-occidentalis {Boyle, h. Kew); Punjab {Clark 

 n. 142, h. Calcutta) ; Kashmir, Bhimbur {Atkinson n. 24196, 

 h. Kew, speciei typus) ; Scinde, Kurrachee {Stocks, h. Kew ; 

 Dalzell, h. Calcutta) ; Bombay {Dalzell, h. Kew). 



67. C. OBTTTSiFLOBUs(FaAZ, Enum. ii. p. 308); culmis robustis ; 

 umbella capitata, c. 6-spiculosa; spiculis longis 16 mm., latis 

 8 mm., admodum compressis, spissis, albidis ; glumis ellipticis, 

 obtusis, striatis. — Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 45 ; Boeck. in Linnoea, 

 xxxv. p. 528. 



C. sphserocephalus, /8. leucocephalus, Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 308 ; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. p. 45. 



Natal {Grant, h. Calcutta); alt. 0-3000 metr. {Sutherland, 

 h. Calcutta). 



Var. /3. flavissima, Boeck. ; spiculis aureo-flavis. 

 C. flavissimus (sp.), Schrad. Anal. Fl. Cap., Cyp. p. 5, t. 2. fig. 2. 

 C. sphserocephalus, Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 313 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 45. 

 Africa australis {Burke, h. Calcutta). 



68. C. mabgabitaceus {Vahl, JEnum. ii. p. 307) ; culmo tenui- 

 ore ; umbella capitata, c. 5-spiculosa ; spiculis maximis, 20-floris, 

 admodum compressis, lucidis, stramineis; glumis dense imbri- 

 catis, acute carinatis, 19-nerviis— Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 46 ; Boeck. 

 in Linn&a, xxxv. p. 529. 



Niger flumen ; Nupe {Barter, h. Calcutta). 



Sect. D. Bobartia. 



Bobartia, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. p. 17 (genus), non Lam.— Galilea, 

 Pari. Fl. Palerm. i. p. 297 (genus).— Sect. Bepentes, Boeck. in 

 Linncea, xxxv. p. 536 (C. arenario excl. ; C. proteinolepide incl). 



