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teretes, aciculares, glumis densius imbricatis ; in C. Neesii lati- 

 usculae, laxiuscule 10-florae ; in forma majuscula (in Assam &c. 

 vulgari) longse 16 mm., 20-florae, multum compress*, glumis lon- 

 gioribus, remotiusculis ; rhachillse alis magnis, caducis. Glum® 

 ovatse aut ellipticse, compressae, dorsi nervi 3, virides, in acumen 

 excurrentes, latera rubra vel saturate colorata, margines scariosi. 

 Stamina 3 ; anthera3 lineari-oblongae. Stylus nuce brevior ; rami 

 3, e gluma breviter exserti. Nux paullo unsymmetrica, curvata, 

 obtuse trigona, apicem versus in brevem cylindrum subito angus- 

 tata; stylobasis ab apice cylindri obtusi facile secedens. Nux 

 nigra ; cellulae extimse guadratse, crassae, albidae. 



This plant is the C. auricomus of h. Kew ; but the synonymy 

 I did not work at Kew, and cannot discover at Calcutta. The 

 localities following are all from the Calcutta Herbarium : — 

 India Orientalis : Moradabad (T. Thomson [C. auricomus, 

 Siebef]) ; Sikkim Terai ( G. King) ; Assam (Jenkins, Simons, 

 Masters) ; Khasia ; Nongram, alt. 1400 metr. (C. B. Clarice) ; 

 . r 'engal; Eajapore Jheel (Kurz [C. digitatus, Boxb.]) ; Ben- 

 gal (Hooker/, et T. Thomson [C. auricomus, Sieber]); Bengal 

 orientalis (Griffith n. 6149) ; Dacca (C. B. Clarice nn. 7417, 

 17131 B) ; Nilgherries, alt. 1900 metr. (C. B. Clarke n. 11363 ; 

 G. King n. 1318) ; Zeylania (Thwaites C. P. n. 3043). 

 Burma : Meaday (B. Scott) ; Pegu (Kurz nn. 647, 672, 2672) ; 

 Attran et Pagamew (Wallich n. 3438 [0. digitatus, Boxb.]). 

 Egypt (Sieber n. 42). 

 Nupe, in flumine Niger (Barter) 

 Brasil (Swainson). 



Var. /3. khasiana ; nuce apice acutata in st) lobasin eensim 

 transeunte. 



C Hookeri, Boeck. in Linntea, xxxvi. p. 308. 



Papyrus elatus, HooJc.f. et T. Thorns. MS., non Nees. 



Bengalia orientalis (Griffith n. 6151). 



Khasia v. Assam (Wallich et Griffith, Assam Deputation). 



Khasia: regio tropicalis (Hooker f. et T. Thomson v. 23 



[Papyrus elatus, 2¥ees]). 

 Khasia : Sohra Keen, alt. 1600 metr. (C. B. Clarke n. 19173). 



146. C. elatus (Linn. Amcen. Acad. iv. p. 301, Sp. PI. p. 67) ; 



robusta, foliata ; umbella magna, decomposita ; spicis elongatis, 

 densis; spiculis parvis, angustis, antice fastigiatis; antherarum 

 arista cum | parte loculorum subaequilonga. 



