164 MB. C. B. CLABKE Olf INDIAN SPECIES OF CYPEBUS. 



talis, interdum repens, crassiusculus, 3-7 dm. longus, apice acute 

 triqueter, robustior. Polia 2-4, cum |-| parte culmi aequilonga, 

 robustiora, in raargiuibus serrulato-scabra. Involucri bracteae 

 3-5, usque ad 2-6 dm. longae, umbellam lorige superantes. Um- 

 bellae radii 3-10, erecto-patuli, usque ad 3-12 cm. longi ; ochreae 

 longae 1-3 cm., apice a seta unica saepe terminatae. Umbellulae 

 iterum umbellatae vel ad unicam spiculam reductae ; radioli ultimi 

 (in forma typica) elongati, basi ochreolati, apice unicam spicam 

 proferentes. Spica 5-15 mm. longa, 5-15-spiculosa ; rbacbis 

 glabra. Spicula? erecto-patulae, rarius divaricatae, ferrugineo- 

 rubescentes, rarius atro-castaneae, longae 15 mm., latae 2 mm., 

 10-1 8 -florae; rhachillae alae conspicuaa, vix solubiles. Glumae 

 spissae, compressae vix carinatae, ovatse, obtusae, in dorso virides 

 4-7-nerviae, in lateribus coloratae vix striatae. Stamina 3, sub- 

 inclusa ; antherae lineari-oblongae, muticae aut submucronatae. 

 Stylus nuce brevior ; rami 3, breviter exserti. Nux subobtusa, 

 apiculata, trigona, nigra ; cellulae extimae quadratae, emarcidae, 

 byalinae, porosae. 



Regio Mediterranea ; ab Anglia usque ad Cabul. 



Anglia : Somersetshire (Thwaites, h. Kew ; Scott, h. Calcutta ; 

 Dyer, h. Calcutta) ; Wilts, Boy ton (Henslow, h. Calcutta). 



Erance : Indre et Loire (Vercier n. 224, h. Kew); ins. Jersey 

 {Stevens, h. Kew; Haslar, h. Calcutta). 



Africa : Algiers (Bove n. 316, h. Kew) ; Khartoum (Schwein- 

 furih n. 616, h. Kew). 



Ins. Rhodes (Bourgeau n. 150, h. Kew). 



Syria boreahs (Kotschy u. 74, h. Kew ; Lowne, h. Calcutta). 



Byzantium (Postian n. 654, h. Kew). 



Armenia Ecssica (Besser, h. Kew) ; Kurdistan (Kotschy nn. 

 292, 393, h. Kew) ; Tauria (Compin, h. Calcutta). 



Aberbeidschan (Fischer, h. Calcutta). 



Cabul (Griffith nn. 29, 30, h. Kew n. 6145; Griffith nn. 6145 

 6180, h. Calcutta) ; Quetta (Hamilton, h. Calcutta). 



India: mons Aboo (G. King, h. Calcutta). 



Var. /3. pallescens, Boiss. PL Orient, v. p. 375 ; spicis laxis ; 

 spiculis distantibus, paullo majoribus, pallidis, fere stramineis. — 

 JDesf. Fl. Atlant. i. p. 45, t. 9 ; Willh. et Lange, Fl. Hisp. i. 

 p. 139. 



C. Laraarckianus ?, Hochst. ! in Kotschy n. 222. 

 C. ochreoides, Steud. Cyp. p. 34. 



