590 CLXXIL CYPERAOEX, (C. D. Clarke.) [.Pycreus. 
Throughout INDIA, except the drier country, frequent, alt. 0-3000 ft.; from 
KnasrA, H. f. § T.T., to CEYLON and Tavor. 
Roots aromatic (J. D. Hooker). Spikelets 15-40-fid., or often long, even up to 
70-fld. 
3. P. latespicatus, (..B. Clarke; middle-sized, umbel simple or 
reduced to 1 head, spikelets spicate à in. wide straw-colrd. more or less 
chestnut-red marked, nut obovoid compressed black hardly as long as i 
glume. Cyperus latespicatus, Boeck. in Flora, xlii. 433 bis, and in Lanza, 
xxxv. 467; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 40. C. diaphanus, Schrad. ez 
Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii, Mant. 477; Kunth Enum. ii.9; Boeck. in Linnea, 
xxxv. [1867-8] 437; Clarke, l.c. 80. C. intermedius, var. indica, Boeck. 
l.c. 451 (not of Steud.). C. pseudo-bromoides, Boeck. l.c. 464 (the Nepal 
plant). O. angulatus, Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 74; Duthie in E 
Atkinson Gaz. x. [1876] 620 (not of Nees). C. aphyllus, Boeck. Le 450. 
C. pauper, O. B. Clarke, l. c. 41 (the Himal. plant not of Hochst.).— 
Cyperacea, Griff. Itin. Notes, 32, n. 506. 
From Kumaon to Kmasta, alt. 3-6000 ft. BENGAL, Cmora NAcPORE, and 
MALABAR. h of 
Usually annual. Stems 4-16 in., occasionally 0. Leaves usually $ lengt ad 
stem, in. wide, sometimes 0. Spikelets stouter than in P. flavescens, aw- ` i 
Nut with longitudinally oblong cells.—Strachey's plants are depauperated, fili mE 
bearing only 1 or 2 spikelets, and were formerly referred by me to P. pauper, 
Abyssinian sp. 
** Outer cells of the surface of nut all subquadrate hexagonal, none 
oblong. 
T Stem decumbent at base, often clothed 1 its length by leaf-sheaths. 
4. P. sanguinolentus, Nees in Linnea, ix. 283; middle-sized (9 
depauperate and filiform), umbel simple or contracted into 1 head, spike d 
linear or oblong generally red-marked, glumes loosely imbricate, E 
obovoid biconvex almost turgid. Cyperus sanguinolentus, Vahl Erum. y, 
351; Nees in Wight Contrib. 75; Thw. Enum. 342; Aitch. Cat. Pim m. 
Pl.156. C. Eragrostis, Vahl Z. c. 322? (exclud. syn. Retz); Kunth Bo ck. 
ii. 7; Moritz. Verz. Zoll. Pfi. 96; Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 745 Pory, 
in Linnæa, xxxv. 443; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 57, an Rot 
S0. C. cruentus, Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 196 (not of Rotth.). O. pumilus, Ié 
Desc. et Ic. 29, t. 9, fig. 4 (not of Linn.) C. atratus, Steud. in Zol kl " 
Ind. Archip. ii. 62, and Pl. Oyp. 12; Mig. Fl. Ind Bat. iii, 259; Boech. y 
446. C. concolor, Steud. Pl. Oyp. 6. C. Rehmanni, Boiss. F' l Geert 
364. C. grossarius, Heyne ms. C. jeminicus, Heyne ms. (not of ' 
—Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3318 (mainly), 3335. 
Throughout INDIA, ascending to 10,800 ft.; from KASHMIR to ASSAM, Cen: 
and SrzNGAPORE.—DisTRIB. Warm parts of the Old World. Stem 
Glabrous. Rhizome creeping, 4-10 in., or often flowering the first y og shortly 
4-20 in. Leaves as long as stem or much shorter, 4; in. wide. Spikelets 1 
spicate or clustered, j-1 by 3 in., 6-24-fld. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, le 
green nerves on back, sides usually red- or chestnut-marked. Nut hardly i a 
of glume, ashy-brown.—Belongs to a very small group of closely-allied species, stem; 
alone of all the Cyperec have nodes (and sheaths and leaves) far above base 0 ikkim 
usually a prominent character in P, sanguinolentus, but frequently absent: 
