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Series * Folia cuhno breviora, scepe abbreviate vel subnulla. 



120. C. aeticflatus (Linn. Sp. PI. p. 66); subaphyllus ; 

 culmo terete, apice vix trigone, in sicco nodoso ; umbella com- 

 posita; spiralis breviter spicatis, pallidis vel subferrugineis ; 

 glumis elliptieis, arctius iinbricatis ; nuce late oblonga, cum A 

 parte gluma? a?quilonga.— H. B. F. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p. 202 ; 

 Torrey in Ann. Lyceum New York, iii. p. 256 ; Funth, Enum. ii. 

 p. 53 ; JVees in Wight Contrib. p. 80, in Mart. Brasil. Cyp. p. 35 ; 

 Griseb. Fl. Brit. West Ind. p. 564 ; Baker, Fl. Maurit. p. 412 ; 

 Boeck. in Linncea, xxxvi. p. 274 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. p. 278 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. p. 374. 



C. niloticus, Forsk.Fl. AEg.-Arab. p. 13; Beauv. Fl. d'Owar. ii. p. 63, 



t. 97. fig. 2; Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 302. 

 C. nudus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 187 (neque homonymus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 



p. 209), neque H. B. K. 

 C. gymnos, Roem. et Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. p. 97. 

 Cyperus, Wall. ! Listn. 3364. 

 — , Sloane, Jamaica, i. p. 121, t. 81. fig. 1. 



Stolones crassi, a squamis ovato-lanceolatis laxis atro-fuscis 

 intecti. Culmi usque ad 1-2 raetr., basi crassi, vivi leves nee 

 nodosi, in sicco nodosi neque articulati. Vagina? 3-4, culmum 

 usque ad 2-3 dm. integentes, rarius breviter foliigera?. Involucri 

 braetea? long® 1-5 cm., lanceolatse, basi erecta?, raro usque ad 1 

 dm. elongate, in marginibus fere leves. Umbella? radii 4-12, 

 usque ad 8-12 cm. longi; oclirea? 1 cm. truncata? ; umbellula? 

 congest®, subcorymbosa? ; spica? numerosa?, ebracteata?, breves, 

 multispiculosa?. Spicula? fasciculatim confluentes, longa? 1-4 

 em., lata? 2 mm., 12-50-flora? ; rhacbilla? ala? oblonga?, solubiles, 

 rubra? aut albo-hyalina? ; gluma ima brevis. Gluma? concava?, 

 non carinata?, in dorso obscurius 3-5-nervia?, viridescentes, in 

 lateribus rubra? aut pallida?. Stamina 3, inclusa ; anthera? lineari- 

 oblonga?, mutica?. Stylus | parte nucis brevior ; rami 3, breviter 

 exserti. Nux utrinque angustata, trigona, nigra ; cellula? extima? 

 quadrata?, emarcida?, hyalina?, inconspicuaa, persistentes. 

 In regionibus calidioribus orbis fere totius. 

 Asia : India Orientalis, Calcutta (Roxburgh, h. Few) ; Bengal 

 (Griffith, h, Few n. 6214); Soonderbun, vulgaris (C. B. 

 Clarke) ; Noakbali (C. B. Clarke n. 8204) ; Madras Penin- 

 sula (Wight n. 1823, hh. Few, Mus. Brit); Zeylania 

 (Thwaitcs C. P. n. 3561, hh. Few, Mas. Brit., Calcutta ; 



