Diane CLXXII. OYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 589 
tipper half of keel with a lunate crested glandular wing, nut yellow-brown. 
Zei, FI. Ind. i. 180; Nees in Wight Contrib. 91 (partly) ; Mig. Fl. Ind. 
4. i. 291; Thw. Enum. 345; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 427. K. triceps, 
Linn, f Suppl. 104 (partly, not of Rottb.). K. sororia, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
11.293 (partly, not of Kunth). K. gracilis, Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 68 
(not of wnth). K. mindorensis, Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 67. Scirpus Cepha- 
om unt Hort. Vind. t. 97.—K yllingia, Wall. Cat. 3443 A, F (partly), H 
4). 
Throughout INDIA, common ; from Kumaon to Assam, CEYLON and SINGAPORE, 
ISTNIB. Hot and warm temp. regions of the Old World except the Medi- 
ean. 
Closely resembles K. brevifolia except in the crest (usually straw-colrd. with 
E red circular resinous glands) on the upper part of keel of nut-bearing 
fi LS, Squamulata, Vahl Enum. ii. 381; nearly glabrous, roots 
Tous, spikes 1-3 ovoid, fl. glume scarcely acute its keel winged by a 
yaline incise-toothed crest, nut brown. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 431. 
: Metzii, Steud, Syn. Pl. Cyp. 70. K. monocephala, Strachey Herb. 
"maon, 74 (not of Rottb.). 
patern India; Kasmwrm, Thomson. GURWHAL, up to 5500 ft., Duthie. Mr. 
8 ing. Canara, Metz.—Dis TRIB. Trop. Africa. . 
| Be SM tufted (annual), 2-12 in. eaves often longer than stem, } in. broad. 
| èin. in diam., green or brown. Spikelets } in. long, maturing 1 nut only. 
2. PYCREUS, Beauv. 
pu haracters of 4 Cyperus but nut compressed laterally, and style 
ches 2.— Species 50, all warm and temp. regions. 
aL Outer superficial cells of nut (at least on its shoulders) longitudinally 
ie or elliptic; nut often appearing transversely lineolate or imper- 
Wiig nate (by reason of the narrow ends of the cells running into an 
ting line). l 
"e P. flavescens, Nees in Linnxa, ix. 283; annual, slender, umbel 
Ka 9r reduced to 1 head, bracts spreading, spikelets linear yg in. wide 
uis or pale, nut obovoid compressed shining black hardly half as long 
Blume. Cyperus flavescens, Linn. Sp. Pl. 68 (not of Linn. Herb.) ; 
Seck 2 Um. ii. 5; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 31, t. 278, figs. 662-664 ; 
es Linnea, xxxv. 438, and in Journ. Linn. Soc, xviii. 104; Clarke, 
“Sxl. 36; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 364 (excl. Cabul sp.). 
PUNJAB ; Kurrum Valley, Aitchison, n. 964.— DisTRIB. N. temp. regions. 
Bier, s 1-12 in, Leaves often 2 length of stem, ys in. wide, grass-like, Spikelets 
White ir. 9r very shortly spicate, spreading in fruit. Nut obtuse, with transverse 
nes; black cells of surface longitudinally oblong. 
* P. stramineus, C. B. Clarke; umbels reduced to 1 compound 
sube of 6-12 straw-colrd. spikelets, bracts and spikelets (even in fruit) 
Wi dy (otherwise nearly as P. flavescens). Cyperus stramineus, Nees in 
ni! d Contrib, 74; Kunth Enum. ii. 9; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
C. coro; C. capillaris, Hochst. ms.; Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 4 (not of Konig.). 
mj, zandelimus, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 480 (not of Spreng.) C. fili- 
"Me: Wall. Cat. 3320 (partly). 
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