MB. C. B. CLABKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OF CYPEBUS. 115 



Exemplum in b. Calcutta (in Galapagos Archip., Ins. Charles 

 a G-oodridge iectum) e Kew sub nomine G rubiginoso, Hook, f., 

 emissum videtur=C. viscosus. 



India occidentalis ; Mexico. 



76. C. oxylepis {Wees; Steud. Gyp. p. 25); viscosulus ; urn- 

 bella fere simplice, densiuscula ; spiculis dense fasciculatis, luteo- 

 brunneis ; glumis laxe imbricatis, plicato-striatis ; nuce oblonga, 

 rostrata, cum -| parte glumae eequilonga. — Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. 

 p. 549. 



Demerara {h. Calcutta, n. 324). 



Sect. P. Luzuloidei. 



Luzuloidei, Kunth, JEnum. ii. p. 39 ; Boeck. in Linnaa, xxxv. 

 p. 549 (C. silletensi excl.). 



Radix fibrosa (in C. refiexo rhizoma lignosum). Folia longius- 

 cula. Umbella composita (aut decomposita) ; umbellula? baud 

 raro capitatim congest®. Spicules multiflorae, multum compressae ; 

 rhachilla obscurius alata. Glumae concavae, obtusae. Stamen 1 

 (in C. Lechleri 3) ; autherae oblong®, muticse. Nux trigoua, 

 obovoidea aut oblonga, apice breviter vel longius acutata.— Ameri- 

 cani. 



This is a very natural small group, of which only some 

 characteristic species are taken up here. The Indian G. sille- 

 tensis, included among Luzuloidei by Boeckeler, appears to me 

 to differ considerably, and is exceedingly near G pulcherrimus, 

 Willd. Kunth included here G platystylis, B. Br. (under the 

 name C.pallidus), probably because he had no better place to 

 put it, and objected to making a section of a solitary species out 

 °f it, as I have done as the lesser evil. 



77. C. vegetfs {Willd. Sp. PI. i. p. 283); culmo sursum 

 trigono, levi ; umbella 5-6-radiata ; umbellulis globosis, capitatis 

 10-50-spiculosis ; glumis lutescentibus aut virescentibus ; nuce 

 cum J-jj parte glumas aequilonga, triquetra, obovoidea, breviter 

 rostrata. — Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 550. 



Kunth's statement (Enum. ii. p. 40) that the nut is only 5 - ? 

 the length of the glume is misleading. 



Valdivia {Bhilippi n. 544, h. Calcutta). 



Juan Fernandez {Scanlin, h. Calcutta). 



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