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divaricatis, remotis, usque ad $-2 uncis longis; glumis subdi- 
stantibus castaneo rubris. 
MADAGASCAR CENTRALIS, Baron n. 489. 
Species forsan bona; sed nux omnino similis ei C. polystachyi. 
5. C. Borviwr, Bech. in Linnea, xxxv. p. 481; umbellis 3-1- 
radiatis, subcapitatis ; spiculis 3-5 fasciculatis, sanguineo-rubris, 
compressis, nuce fere ut in C. polystachyio.—C. atropurpureus, 
Bojer MS. 
Manvagascar, Blackburn. Bourgon, Balfour. 
Forsan pro varietate C. polystachyi, melius habendus. 
6. CYPERUS (§ PYCREUS) ATRO-BRUNNEUS, Baker, n. sp. 
Perennis, glabra, foliis elongatis lineari-subulatis, caule gracili subtereti, 
umbellis 2-3-radiatis foliis 2 elongatis lineari-subulatis bracteatis, spicis 
simplicibus sessilibus vel pedunculatis, spiculis 6-8 lanceolatis sessilibus 
12-15-floris, glumis ovato-navicularibus obtusis atrobrunneis nitidis arcte 
imbricatis, fructu lenticulari, styli ramis 2 elongatis. 
A tufted perennial, with slender glabrous subterete erect 
stems above a foot long. Produced leaves one to a stem, with 
along sheath and an erect linear-subulate blade more than half 
a foot long. Umbel of two or three rays, one sessile, the others 
peduncled, bracteated by two long unequal linear-subulate leaves. 
Spikelets 6-8 to a ray, lanceolate, sessile, 3 in. long, the side ones 
spreading or deflexed. Glumes ovate-navicular, a line long, each 
imbricated over half the next above it, brown-black, glossy, with 
a scariose pale border and a conspicuous green keel, not other- 
wise ribbed. Nut finely reticulated. — Style with two long 
branches.— Central Madagascar, Baron 2049! Allied to C. glo- 
bosus, All. 
7. C. tanceus, Thunb. Prod. p. 18; Fl. Cap. i. p. 383; sto- 
lonibus crassis ; nuce obovoidea cum } parte glume subequilonga. 
—C. melanopus, Beck.! in Flora, 1879, p. 545.—C. nitidus, 
Beck. in Linnea, xxxv. p. 461 partim, i. e. plantis et syn. Indicis 
exclusis. 
MADAGASCAR CENTRALIS, Parker n. 12; presertim in terra 
Betsileo, Baron nn. 7, 832. 
8. C. Munprut, Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 17 ; culmo per 3-3 longi- 
tudinis a vaginis foliorum intecto ; nuce anguste ellipsoidea cum 
3 parte glume :equilonga.— C. densifolius, Steud.! Cyp. p. 6.— 
C. eruentus, Baker! Fl. Maurit. p. 408, non Retz.—C. turfosus, 
Salzm. MS.—C. reptans, Bojer MS. 
