Pyereus.] CLXXII. OYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 593 
9. P. ferrugineus, C. B. Clarke; spikelets rather broader redder, 
glumes more distant (otherwise as P. polystachyus, Var. B). Cyperus ferru- 
pneus, Poir, in Lam. Encyc. vii. 261; Kunth Enum. ii. 11;' Baker Fl 
Maurit. 408. C. polystachyus, Vars. ferruginea and macrostachya, Boeck. in 
mea, xxxv. 479, Vars. ferruginea, micans and filicina, C. B. Clarke in 
Journ, Linn. Soc. xxi. 54, 55. C. strictus, Rottler ms. Heyne ms. (not of 
Josh) — Wall. Cat. 3331. 
The Deccan PENINSULA ; Rottler, G. Thomson. CHITTAGONG; J. D. H.— 
Afric. Americ. 
10. P. sulcinux, C. B. Clarke; as P. polystachyus, var. B, but spike- 
lets longer, glumes more remote, nut unsymmetric its faces much com- 
usually concave. Cyperus sulcinux, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 
Soe, xxi. 56 and xxv. 80. 
r Beet up to 5000 feet, alt. frequent. ANAMALLAY Mrs.; Beddome. PEGU ; 
ain TENASSERIM; Helfer (Kew Distrib. n. 6209, 4).—DisTEIB. Afr. trop. 
ya. 
Slender. Spikelets up to 40—50-fld. Narrow edge'otf nut much flattened against 
the rhacheola, 
silt? Robust, spikelets larger, yellow brown or red, leaves close to base of 
Jk P. angulatus, Nees in Linnea, ix. 283; robust, umbel simple, 
Pkelets yellow or brown-yellow (see also var. 8) spicate, nut small obo- 
n at length of glume. Cyperus unioloides, Br. Prod. 216 ; C. B. Clarke 
Rat. Linn. Soc. xxi. 60. O. bromoides, Willd. ms.; Link Jahrb, iii. 85; 
x Enum. ii. 8; Boeck.in Linnea, xxxv. 463. C. angulatus, Nees in 
Yht Contrib. 73; Boeck. Le. 465.—Cyperus, Wall. Cat. n. 3324. 
$ Narat; Wallich. DINaJPORE; C. B. Clarke. Kuasta; alt. 3-5000 feet, Hf. 
T. T. +» &e, Nirenii Hirs ; Wight. Ava; Wallich.—DISTRIB. tropics. 
y Plabrous, Rhizome long, A in. in diam., or often 0. Roots fibrous. Stem 
long ft. Leaves often 2 length of stem, } in. broad. Umbel rays 3-8, up to 2 ai 
in (in depauperated a single few-spikeleted head); bracts 4-5, up to 
ine leaf-like, Spikes of 3-20 spikelets, sometimes slightly compound ; bracteoles 
Ki enons, Spikelets 3 by A in., 22-fld. Glumes Ä in., ovate, triangular-acute, 
ly Imbricate in fruit, 1-3-nerved, back green, sides shining yellow brown, 
maj Crisped, Stamens 3 ; anthers oblong-linear. Nut compressed, black ; style 
» branches linear shortly exsert. 
ining di Wight umbel contracted into a subcompound head, spikelets larger 
€stnut-brown, 
ik Zon P eninsula; Wight.—A remarkable plant, only once collected. The 
wi ets are, in size and colour, unlike any Indian or other example of P. angulatus, 
® they most closely resemble P. macranthus, a Cape plant; but the nuts. ave 
thong, ace-cells Subquadrate, while in P. macranthus these are longitudinally 
WE ; ; ix. 283; bel compound or 
: Punctic ees in Linnea, ix. ;um 
Fe Spikelets Sege ek broad-ellipsoid truncate 3 length of 
bai AE Baccha, Nees in Linnea, ix. 283. Cyperus puncticulatus, 
! Enum. ii. 348; Kunth Enum. i. 15; Dalz: & Gibs. Bomb. FU. 
0 B Theo, Enum, 349. Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 472 (excl. syn. Rozb.); 
bn, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 68. C. Baccha, Kunth e 118. C. 
atus, Nees in Wight Contrib. 76 (not of Rowb.). C. procerus, Roxb. 
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