114 ME. C. B. CLAEKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OF CYPEEUS. 



linearibus, lucide stramineis aut albidis, 20-40-floris ; nuce 

 majuscula, obovoidea, a dorso compressa. 



C. conglomerates, Cosson, Expl. Alger., Bot. iii. p. 243; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. p. 369. 



Spiculaa longse 20-45 mm., lata? 6-8 mm. — Exempla optima 

 Vogelii (quam ilia a Jaub. et Spach depicta) paullo majora. 



Persia australis (Aucher n. 5483, h. Kew). 



Egypt (Aucher-Eloy , h. Calcutta). 



Soudan, Agadem (Vogel, h. Kew). 



Deserfca Belbeys (Schubert, h. Kew). 



74. C. 2EGYPTIACUS (Qloxin. Obs. p. 20, t. 3); radicibus 

 lanosis ; umbella capitata vel congesta ; glumis maximis, aristatis, 

 per totam fere latitudinem 11-nervosis ; nuce ellipsoidea sub- 

 obovoidea, a dorso compressa. — Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 48 ; Boeck. 

 in Linncea, xxxv. p. 541. 



Schcenus mucronatus, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 63. 



Mariscus mucronatus, Presl ; Sibth. Fl. Grcec. t. 43. 



Galilea mucronata, Parlat. Giorn. Bot. ii. p. 134. 



Ins. Canaries (Lemann, h. Calcutta). 



Lisbon (Daveau, h. Calcutta). 



Montpellier (Bentham, h. Calcutta). 



Athense (Heldreich, h. Calcutta). 



Ins. Rhodes (Aucher-Eloy, h. Calcutta). 



Sect. E. Viscosi. 



Sulcati seu Glutinosi, Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 547. 



Eadix fibrosa. Culmi obscurius viscoso-puberuli. Folia an- 

 gusta, involuta, rigidiora. Umbella composita. Glumse ovatae, 

 naviculares, mucrone breviter excurrente. Stamina 3; antherae 

 lineari-oblongse, muticse. Nux trigona, ellipsoidea aut sub- 

 lanceolata. 



This group, of three species only in Boeckeler, is held together 

 by trivial characters, while the two species below enumerated are 

 unlike in habit. C. viscosus itself seems near C. elegans, where 

 Kunth placed it, differing in the narrow leaves. C. oxylepis is 

 like no other species known to me. 



75. C. tiscosus (Aiton, Sort. Kew. i. p. 59) ; umbella laxa, 

 irregulari, spiculis fasciculatis ; nuce cum | parte glurcae seqvii- 

 longa, obovoidea, triquetra. — Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 28 ; Boeck. in 

 Linncea, xxxv. p. 547. 



