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paucispicati. Spicse 1-4 cm. longse, 5-25-spiculos8e, spiculis fusco- 

 viridibus, maturis brunneis, adscendentibus neque ullo tempore 

 divaricatis. Spicule longae 10-14 mm., latae 3 mm., compress®, 

 14-22-florae ; rhachillse alae late lanceolatse, hyalinae, persis- 

 tentes ; glumae 2 imse breves, quadratse. Griumae paullo remote, 

 compressa?, vix carinatae, obtusae, 7-11-nerviae, in dorso vires- 

 centes, nervo dorsali interdum breviter excurrente. Stamina 3, 

 subinclusa; antherae lineari-oblongae, non aut minute albo-cris- 

 tatae, f usco-rubrae. Stylus 3 parte nucis brevior ; rami 3, exserti. 

 Nux utrinque breviter angustata, nigro-brunnea ; cellulae extimae 

 quadratae, emarcidae, hyalinae, persistentes, minute porosa?. 

 India Orientalis ; China ; Australia ; Africa tropicalis. 

 India Orientalis, alt. 0-1500 metr., in regionibus occidentalibus 

 a Kashmir usque ad Zey laniam sat vulgaris : Cabul (Griffith 

 nn. 28, 1267, h. Kew, n. 6167, h. Calcutta) ; montes Suleiman 

 (Br. Sanders, h. Calcutta) ; Punjab (T. Thomson, hh. Kew, 

 Calcutta ; Aitchison n. 244, h. Kew ; Stewart nn. 294, 384, 

 h. Calcutta) ; Dehra Doon (Jacquemont n. 410, h. Kew) ; 

 Moradabad (T. Thomson n. 399, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit.) ; India 

 centralis (G. King n. 20, h. Calcutta) ; Sangur (Vicary, h. 

 Calcutta) ; Chota Nagpore (C. B. Clarice nn. 20423, 21220, 

 &c.) ; Bombay (Balzell, h. Kew) ; Coimbatore (C. B. Clarke 

 n. 11525) ; montes Nilghiri (G-. Thomson, h. Calcutta) ; Zey- 

 lania (Thwaites, C. P. n. 3044, hh. Calcutta, Mus. Brit.). 

 China: Canton (Hance n. 19311, h. Kew). 

 Australia: Portus Darwin (Fitzalan, h. Kew). 

 Africa tropicalis : Abyssinia (Schimper nn. 1021, 1155, hh. 

 Kew, Mus. Brit.) ; Ethiopia (Kotschy n. 528, h. Kew) ; (xal- 

 labat (Schioeinfurth n. 2005, hh. Kew, Mus. Brit.). 



113. C. nutans (Vahl, JEnum. ii. p. 363); umbella composita 

 aut decomposita ; spicis multispiculosis, elongatis, laxis ; glumis 

 remotis, ellipticis, obtusis ; nuce cum f parte glumae aequilonga, 

 vix curvata, trigona, in facie interiore non (aut obscure) concava. 

 — Kunth, JEnum. ii. p. 94 ; Boeck. in Lmncea, xxxv. p. 597. 

 C. Jacquini, Schrad. in Ind. Sem. Goettingen, 1835, p. 5, in Limta-a, 

 1837, Litter.-Bericht. p. 87 ; Fenzl in Denksch. Akad. Wisseu. 1854, 

 p. 54, t. 1. 

 0. exaltatus, Strachey, Kumaon PI. p. 74, non Retz. 

 C. distans, Baker, ¥1. Maurit. p. 411 partim ; Hook. Niger Fl. p. 551 ; 



Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. p. 612 partim {quoad Sieber n. 18). 

 Cyperus sp. u. 54, Herb. Ind. Or., Hoofc.f. et T. Thorns. 



