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C. eumorphus, Steud. ! Cyp. p. 22. 



C silletensis, Thwaitesl Enum. PL Zeyl. p. 343. 



C. Haspan, Benth. Fl. Austral vii. p. 270 partim, non Linn. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3357. 



C. silletensis forsan varietas. — Spiculse quam hujus angustiores, 

 vix 1 mm. latae. Spicularum fasciculi (in exemplis bene evolutis) 

 in radiolis longiusculis sustenti.— -In h. Kew in ipsissima plagula 

 cum C. Haspan agglutinata commixta, ideoque ad Oyperum Haspan 

 a Bentham relata. 



Assam: Suddiya {Griffith nn. 1035, 1480, h. Kew n. 6173; 



Jenkins n. 565, h. Kew). 

 Zeylania (Thwaites, C. P. n. 3558, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit., Cal- 

 cutta). 

 Java {Zollinger n. 638, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit. ; Horsfield, h. Mus. 



Brit.). 

 Borneo : Banjarmassing {Motley n. 992, h. Kew). 



105. C. diffoemis {Linn. Amoen. Acad. iv. p. 302, Sp. PI. 

 p. 67) ; csespitosa ; umbella simplice composita aut capitata ; 

 spiculis minimis, dense fasciculatis ; glumis ovatis, truncatis, 

 castaneis aut pallescentibus ; nuce cum gluma fere aequilonga, 

 aequaliter triquetra, subovoidea, pallida. — Botib. Descr. et Ic. 

 p. 24, t. 9. fig. 2 j Sihth. Fl. Grcec. i. p. 32, t. 46 ; B. Br. Prod. 

 p. 215 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 195 ; Nees in Wight Contrib. p. 88 ; 

 Decaisne in Nouv. Ann. Mus. d'Rist. Nat. iii. p. 358; Kunth, 

 Enum. ii. p. 38 ; Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 284. fig. 674; Pari. Fl. 

 Ital. ii. p. 31 ; Willk. et Lange, Fl. Risp. i. p. 138 ; Bah. Sf 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 282 ; Boeck. in Linnaa, xxxv. p. 586 ; Baker, 

 Fl. Maurit. p. 411 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. p. 268 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. p. 370. 

 C. protractus, Link, Hort. Berol. i. p. 305, non C. fuscus, var. protracta, 



Delile. 

 Cyperus, Wall. ! List n. 3363 (litt. F excl.)- 

 Cyperacea indeterm., Wallich h. n. 3. 



Kadix fibrosa. Culmi sa?pe plures, 1-5 dm., triquetri. Folia 

 2-3, graminea, culmo saapius breviora, flaccida, in inargimbus 

 minute scabrida. Involucri bractess 2^, usque ad 5-25 cm. 

 longa>, divaricate Umbella saepius contracta; radii 3-8, us.jue 

 ad 4 cm. longi; umbellulsa congest*, ebracteatae. Spicule glo- 

 boso-fasciculat®, long® 5-10 mm., latae 1 mm., compressae, sub- 

 turgidw, 10-40-flora3 ; rhacbilla subexalata. Glumae vix imbn- 



