ME. C. B. CLAEKE ON" INDIAN SPECIES OP CYPEBUS. 113 



Var. ? y. socotrensis - humillima ; spiculis multo angustioribus, 

 anguste lanceolatis ; glumis castaneo-luteis. 



Culmi dense caespitosi, 1-2 cm. longi, trigoni. Involucri 

 bracteae 2-4, vix 1 cm. longse. Umbella e 2-5 spiculis capitata. 

 Spiculse longse 1 cm., latae 1-2 mm., 8-14-florae. 



Socotra (Balfour n. 27, h. propr.). 



71. C. peoteinolepis (Steud. Gyp. p. 15) ; radicibus lanosis ; 

 culmis crassiusculis, sursum teretibus; umbella simplice, con- 

 tracta aut capitata ; spiculis compressis, lineari-oblongis, lateri- 

 bus parallelis, griseis aut pallidis, 24-40-floris ; nuce obovoidea 

 contra rhacbillam compressa. — Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 522. 



C. involutes, R. Br. ! in Salt Abyss., Append, p. 62, nomen nudum. 

 C. curvulus, BoecJc. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 541 pro majore parte, non Boeck. 



in Flora, 1879, p. 549. 

 A C. conglomerate glumis obscure mucronatis, densius stipatis, 

 vix sat diversa. 

 Arabia (Schimper nn. 301, 733, h. Kew). 

 Aden (T. Thomson, h. Kew ; Sir B. Schomburglc n. 8, h. Cal- 

 cutta) . 

 Mare Hubrum (Nimmo, h. Kew). 

 Jeddah (Schimper n. 810 partim, h. Kew ; Fischer, n. 55, h. 



Kew ; Zohrab n. 13 partim, h. Kew). 

 Abyssinia (Salt, h. Mus. Brit.). 

 Socotra (Balfour n. 105, h. propr.). 



72. C. ptjngens (Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 537) ; radicibus 

 lanosis; culmis crassis, sursum teretibus ; umbella simplice, con- 

 tracta aut capitata j spiculis compressis, lineari-lanceolatis, lueide 

 stramineis, 10-18-floris ; nuce magna, obovoidea, contra rha- 

 chillam multum compressa. 



C. conglomerates, Decaisne, Fl, Sinai, p. 13 ; Cosson, Expl. AlgSr., Bot. 



iii. p. 243 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. p. 369 partim. 

 A C. conglomerate videtur sat diversa; a G.pachyrrhizo differt 

 capitulis magis lucidis minus densis, nuce duplo longiore. 

 Africa : Egypt (Schweinfurth n. 426, h. Kew; Aucher n. 3794, 

 h. Kew); Algeria (Balansa n. 944, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit. ; 

 Bourgeau n. 22, h. Kew) ; Sinai (Bom n. 28, h. Kew). 



73. C. Auchebi (Jaub. et Spach, 111 PL Or. t 101) ; radicibus 

 lanosis; culmis crassiusculis, sursum teretibus; umbella simplice 

 pauciradiata aut capitata; spicu is magnis, compressis, late 



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