142 ME. C. B. CLAEKE ON INDIAN SPECIES OF CYPEEtJS. 



TTssuri (Maach, h. Kew). 

 Amurland (Bunge, h. Kew). 



110. C. spectabilis (Schreb. ; Kunth, Enum. ii .p. 73) ; umbella 

 specie simplice, revera composita ; umbellulis e spicis densissime 

 congestis ; spiculis compressis, laxiuscule 12-floris ; glumis late 

 ellipticis, submucronatis ; nuce angustius obovoidea, trigona, apice 

 acutata, subrostrata, cum | parte glumae aequilonga. — BoecJc. in 

 Linnaea, xxxv. p. 605. 



Texas : Drummond (h. Calcutta). 



111. C. Siebeei (Kunth, Enutn. ii. p. 96) ; umbella parce com- 

 posita ; spicis in radiis longiusculis sustentis, stellatis, subglo- 

 bosis ; spiculis oblongis, compressis, 6-10-floris, laete cinnamomeo- 

 brunneis ; glumis late ovatis, obtusis, mucrone brevissime excur- 

 rente. — BoecJc. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 508. 



[This is placed hereabout by Boeckeler, nor do I know that it 

 technically may not belong to this section ; but it is remote in 

 habit botb from the species that go before and those that go 

 after.] 



Victoria (Robertson, h. Calcutta). 



112. C. elebsinoides (Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 39) ; umbella com- 

 posita, radiis elongatis; spicis multispiculosis, laxis, saepe sub- 

 fasciculatis ; glumis vix imbricatis, nervosis, submucronatis ; nuce 

 cum f parte glumae sequilonga, oblonga, curvata, trigona, in facie 

 interiore concava. — Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 596 ; Benth. El. 

 Austral, vii. p. 277 ; Boiss. El. Orient, v. p. 371. 



C. xanthopus, Steud. in Flora, 1842, p. 595 ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, ii. 

 p. 485 ; Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeyl. p. 344. 



C. infra-apicalis, Nees in h. Wight n. 2382; Aitch. Cat. Punjab PI. 

 p. 155. 



C. Santonici, Rottler h. propr., non Retz. 



0. racemosus, Dalz. h. propr., non Rett. 



Cyperus, Wall. ! Last n. 3346. 



Cyperacea indeterm., Wallich h. n. 2. 



Cyperacea, Griff. Itin. Notes, p. 322, n. 1267. 



Radix fibrosa. Culmus 5-10 dm. longus, solitarius (basi autem 

 saepe progemmans ideoque culmi l-3ni), trigonus, sursum tri- 

 queter. Toha plura, rcbusta, saepe cum culmo fere aequilonga, 

 5-8 mm. lata, plana, in marginibus minute scabra. Involucri 

 bracteae 3-6, usque ad 2-5 dm. longae, divaricatae. Umbellae 

 radii 6-8, longi 1-2 (rarius 3) dm. ; ochreae 1-2 cm. longae ; 

 umbellularum bracteolae longae; radioli breves (saepe subnulli), 



