158. CYPERACES. 203 
2. Pycreus Baccha, Nees, in Linnea, ix. (1834) p- 283, et in 
Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. pars 1. p. 10 in obs. [Bacha]. 
Pycreus puncticulatus, Nees, in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. pars r. p. 10 in 
obs.; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. p. 593. 
Cyperus puncticulatus, Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 948; Kunth, Enum. Pl. 
ii. p. 15; Boeck, in Linnea, xxxv. (1867-8) p. 472, syn. Roxburghii 
deleto. 
Cyperus Baccha, Kunth, Enum, PI. ii. p. 115. 
Cyperus inundatus, Nees, in Wight, Contrib. p. 76, non Roxb. 
SHANTUNG: Chefoo (Forbes !). 
Inhabits South India with Ceylon. This plant is, however, 
often passed by as the common Cyperus pilosus, Vahl, and not 
collected. 
3. Pycreus Delavayi, C. B. Clarke, n. sp. 
Culmi cæspitosi, 12-16 uncias longi, graciles, submono- 
cephali. Folia 6-10 uncias longa, subulata. Bractee 2, ima 
usque ad 2 uncias longa, fere subulata. Caput 4-10-stachyum, 
laxum.  JSpzcule subspicate, 3 unciam longs, l unciam late, 
12-nucigere, lucide atro-castanes, compresse. Glume navicu- 
lares, ovate, vix acute, subdistantes, proventu paullo inflate. 
Stylus perbrevis; rami 2 longissimi. ` Aua lateraliter com- 
pressa, cum 3 parte glume vix equilonga, ellipsoidea, nigrescens, 
levis; celluli extimi quadrato-hexagoni. 
Yunnan: Tali (Delavay, 413, in hb. Paris. |). 
This species is near P. globosus, Reichb., var. d. nilagirica, 
but the spikelets are larger, with loosely-packed glumes. The 
plant more resembles P. Cooperi, C. B. Clarke (in Dyer, FI. 
Cap. vii. p. 160). 
4. Pycreus globosus, Reichb. Fl. Excurs. [1830-32], Addend. 
p. 140. n. 10. 
Pycreus capillaris, Nees, in Linnea, ix. (1834) p. 283; C. B. Clarke, 
in Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. p. 091; Palibin, Fl. Koree, iii. p. 20; 
Diels, in Engl. Jahrb, xxix. (1901) p. 297. 
Cyperus globosus, Allioni, Fl. Pedem. Auctuarium, p. 49; Reichb. Ic. 
Pl. Crit. ii. p. 26, t. 229, syn. Beauv. excl., et Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. p. 32, 
t. 279. fig. 665 ; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. (1867-8) p. 458; Hance, in 
Journ, Bot. xvii. (1879) p. 16; Boeck. in Engl. Jahrb. vi. (1885) p. 50. 
Cyperus capillaris, Roxb. FI. Ind. i. p. 198; Hook. et Arm. Bot. 
Deechey's Voy. p. 220. 
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