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has a totally different nut, and is = Holton n. 116, from La Paila 

 in New Grranada. 



**** Vmbella simplex vel subcapitata, spicule plurijlora, 

 digitato-fasciculatce ; glumes subdistantes. 



158. C. dttbitjs (Bottb. Descr. et Ic. p. 20, t. 4. fig. 5) ; culmis 

 casspitosis, foliatis ; spicis 2-5 in capitulum unicum congestis ; 

 spiculis lineari-oblongis, turgidis, 3-5-floris.— Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 p. 189 ; Boec/c. in Linncea, xxxvi. p. 336 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. 

 Linn, JSoc. ii. p. 285. 



C. kyllingiaeoides, Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 312; Kunth, Enum.ii. p. 94, non 

 Pnrsh. 



Radix fibrosa. Culmi plures, 2-3 dm. longi, basi paullo tumidi, 

 a vaginis pluribus laxis rubescentibus intecti, apice triquetri. 

 Folia plura, angusta, debilia, viridia, cum culmo saepe aequilonga. 

 Involucri bractea? plures, longae 8-16 cm., flaccidse. Capitulum 

 8-16 mm. in diam., albo-viridis. Spiculae undique divaricate, 

 densae, 5-8 mm. longae ; rhachillae alas lanceolatae, hyalinas, in- 

 solubiles. Grlumae imbricatae, longe 2 mm., late ovatae, obtusa?, 

 compressaa, per totam fere latitudinem 15-19-nerviae. Stamina 3 ; 

 filamenta linearia, levia ; antherae lineari-oblongae, muticae, rubrae. 

 Stylus nuce brevior ; rami 3, e gluma breviter exserti. Nux 

 cum | parte glumas aequilonga, ellipsoidea utrinque angustata, 

 trigona, nigra ; cellula? extimas quadratae, byalinae. 



In endeavouring too hastily to compress the number of sections 

 of Cyperus (in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. p. 285) I have put this 

 species with C. niveus and the capitate set of Eucyperus : this I 

 now call a great error. This species has been issued from Kew 

 as Mariscus Kraussii, Hochst. ; but Boeckeler says M. Kraussii 

 is altogether different. 



Malay Peninsula: Wellesley (G. King, h. Calcutta); ins. 

 Penang (h. Calcutta n. 1724); in oris Burmae australis 

 (Kurz, h. Calcutta). 



Madras Peninsula {Wight et Heyne in Wallich n. 3326, h. 

 Calcutta; G. Thomson, h. Calcutta). 



Ins. Zeylania (Thwaites C. P. n. 2942, h, Calcutta). 



Ins. Mascarene : Madagascar, Seychelles, Eodriguez, Comoro. 



Africa australis: Portus Natal (Grant, h. Calcutta). 



159. C. tschnos (Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. 1849, p. 99) ; tenuiter 



