Pycreus.] CLXXIL OYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) 591 
ipecimens from 10,000 ft., are 4-6 in, high with stem (and leaves) capillary, bearing 
o 2 spikelets only, and may be a new species. 
Tt Small or medium-sized, roots fibrous, leaves close to base of stem. 
d P. nitens, Nees in Linnza, ix. 283, and in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. 
Xx, Suppl. i. 43; small or scarcely middle-sized, umbel simple or 
reduced to 1 head, spikelets small clustered or shortly spicate linear or 
tar-oblong straw-colrd. or dusky, glumes minutely mucronate or nearly 
uuticons, nut small obovoid. Cyperus pumilus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 69; Gaertn. 
"wl. 1.9, t. 2, fig, 2; Kunth Enum. ii. 4 (in small part); Roxb. Fl. 
h.i. 196 (exel. syn. Rottb.); Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon, 74; Clarke in 
DU. Linn. Soc, xxi. 43 (not of Rottb.or Nees). C. nitens, Vahl Enum. 
139]; Kunth Enum. ii. 3; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 483 (not of Retz.). C 
WRenbranaceus, Vahl. l.c. 330; Kunth l.c.3. C. punctatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind 
i (exel. cit. Pluk.). Q. pulvinatus, Mees & Meyen in Wight Contrib. 
; Thw. Enum. 342. CQ. obstinatus, Steud. Syn. Pl. Cyp. 10; C. tor- 
» Herb, Roxb. ; Wall. Cat. 3339.—Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3312 (mainly). 
tnttoehont INDIA, alt. 0-6000 ft., frequent; from the PUNJAB to Assam, 
N, and SixGAPOoRE.—DisTRIB. Warm regions of the Old World, 
ual. Stems tufted, 1-12 in. Leaves often as long as stem, +, in. wide, 
i Unbel rays 1-6 in. up to 2—4 in. long, usually shorter. Spikelets 5-30 in 
‘pike, i-P by ys in., 8-44-fld.; rhachilla slender, persistent.  G'wmes boat- 
ee 8-5-nerved, back green, sides pale nerveless, keel (in the Indian form) nearly 
7* excurrent recurved. Stamen in the Indian plant usually 1 (in large examples 
- Nut compressed, brown, nut 4 as long as the glume. 
Ki P. pumilus, Nees in Linnea, ix. 283; annual, umbel simple, spike- 
‘plcate oblong 6-10-fld. much compressed, glumes on back 3-nerved 
Sides 2-3-nerved pale, keel excurrent recurved, nut broad ellipsoid 
n » Cyperus hyalinus, Vahl Enum. ii. 329; Kunth Enum. ii. 3; 
pa Fl. Ind; Bat. iii. 254; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 482; Clarke in Journ. 
Yon Dn, xxi. p. 46; Ridley in Forbes East. Archip. 590. C. pumilus, 
pa Wight Contrib. 74. (excl. all syn.) ; Kunth l.c. 4 (in great part, not 
om.) C. strictus, Wight ms. (not of Roxb.); Wall. Cat. 3336, C 
Maneras. in ri . . : 
; In rice-fields, Wight, Leith.—DisTRIB. Timor. 
to lens 2-8 in. Leaves as long as stem, } in. wide, weak. Umbel rays 3-7, up 
: i 
In. long, Spikelets 4-12 in a spikelet t clustered, $ by % in. Glumes 
Vogt e pikelet, not c , y 
lore glistening on their pale or yellowish nerved sides. Mut obtuse, ashy-black, 
than 4 length of glume, 
7. p. capillaris, Nees in Linnea, ix. 283 and in Mart. Fl. 
H pars. 1, 9; umbel apparently simple or condensed into 1 head, 
d var. y) spikelets clustered linear many-fld. much compressed straw- 
mij] wn or black, nut small ellipsoid compressed apiculate chest- 
Pj clack, Cyperus globosus, All. Fl. Pedem. Auctuar. 49; Reichb. Ic. 
in p; ^ ii. 26, t. 999 and Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 32, t. 279, fig. 665; Boeck. 
bei 4, xxxv. 458; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 279 and xxi. 47. C. 
ria? Decne. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 959 (not of Retz. or Roxb.). C. 
Dale, ss Konig. ms.; Roxb. Fl. Ind.i. 194; Nees in Wight Contrib. 76; 
ns Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 983. C. Lamarckianus, Schultes in Roem. & Sch. 
Rr. Mant, 108; Kunth Enum. ii. 9. C. vulgaris, Sieber ms.; Kunth 
‘mucronatus, Moritzi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 95 (not of Rottb.). C. flaves- 
