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Folia plura, longa et lata, plana, viridia, conspicue striata ; invo- 

 lucri bractese foliis similes. Umbella composita aut decomposita, 

 non congesta, spicis ultimis digitatis, paucispiculosis. Spicule 

 multiflorse, compressse, virides pallidse aut fuscae • rhachilla an- 

 guste alata. G-lumae breviter mucronatae aut acutse. Stamina 

 saepissime 3; antherao lineari-oblongae, apice saepe cristatae aut 

 setosae. Nux robusta, ellipsoidea aut obovoidea, acute trigona. 



This is a small group of very closely allied species, easily 

 recognized by the numerous broad leaves and bracts. It is a 

 striking proof how little real difference in structure there is 

 between the whole of Eucyperus, that Bentham thinks 0. multi- 

 spicatus, from its small nut, should, perhaps, rather be placed 

 among the Haspani ; while, on the other hand, C. macer, nov. sp., 

 below among the Corymbosi, seems to me to belong really to the 

 Diffusi, but has such short and narrow leaves and bracts that it 

 could only be placed here as a sp. anomala. 



93. C. elegans {Linn. Sp. PI. p. 68); culmo solitario; involucri 

 bracteis pluribus, longis, latis, viridibus, in margine scabris; 

 umbella composita aut decomposita ; glumis late ovatis, subito 

 acutato-mucronatis, multinerviis, subdistantibus, fructigeris laxe 

 imbricatis ; nuce cum § parte glumse aequilonga, late ellipsoidea, 

 utrinque angustata. — Vahl, Eclog. ii. p. 7, Enum. ii. p. 323 ; 

 Meyer, Fl. Esseq. p. 28 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 28 ; Nees in Mart. 

 Brasil., Cyp. p. 33 ; Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 532. 



C. laxus, Lam. III. i. p. 146; Griseb. Fl. Brit. West Ind. p. 563. 



C. parciflorus, Willd. ; Link, Jcthrb. iii. p. 85. 



C. tolucceusis, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p. 206; Kunth. Enum. ii. 

 p. 28. 



C. umbrosus, Lindl. et Nees in Mart. Brasil., Cyp. p. 31. 



C. moestus, Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 31. 



C. racemosus, Steud. I Cyp. p. 52, non Retz. 



C. nigroviridis, Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeyl. p. 344. 



C. digitatus, Wall. MS. in h. propr., non Roxb. 



C. microstachyos, Bottler in h. propr., non Vahl. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3358. 



Cyperus, WallA List n. 3362. 



Cyperus, WallA List n. 3370, A. 



Cyperacea indeterm., h. Wallich u. 5. 



Hypelytrum, Griff'. Itin. Notes, p. 17, n. 243. 



— Sloane, Jamaica, i. p. 117, t. 75. fig. *• 



Kadix perenuis, lignescens, a fibris nigris validia detixa. Cul- 



