594 CLXXII. CYPERACEÆ. (C. B. Clarke.) [Pycreus. 
Fi. Ind. i. 203, chiefly. C. flavidus, Herb. Heyne; Wall. Cat. 3336, A. C. 
tegetum, Herb. Wight; Wall. Cat. 3355, B. 
The Deccan PENINSULA ; Rottler, Wight, Ze, CEYLON ; Thwaites.—DIsTRIB. 
China. 
Glabrous, annual. Stem erect at base, subsolitary, 12 ft. Leaves often as 
long as stem, X in. broad. Spikelets $ by 2 in., 7-30-fid., sides very parallel. to 50- 
Var. B. qwinquagintiflorus, C. B. Clarke, l.c. 69; spikelets elongate up lant 
fid., anthers apiculate. Cyperus macrostachyus, Vah! Enum. i. 849 (as 36 B.— 
of Rottler, not of Lam. or Poir.). C.longus, Herb. Heyne; Wall. Cat. 3336 B. 
Madras, Heyne. 
13. P. albomarginatus, Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. part i 9; 
umbel simple or compound, spikelets long yellow or ruddy brown, g ee 
obtuse white-edged in fruit spreading not imbricate, nut obovoid greatly 
compressed nearly as long as glume. Cyperus Hochstetter, Nees C B. 
Krauss in Flora, xxviii. 755 (in note); Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 47 "wu t Mi 
Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 69. C. flavicomus, Torrey Bot. Mes. 
Bound. 226; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 261 (excl. syn., not of Michal 
D Concan and MALABAR; G. Thomson, Ze, RaNGooN; R. Scott, Kurz.— 
ISTRIB. Tropics. 
Glabrous, annual. Stem erect at base, subsolitary, 1-3 ft. Leaves often $ enge 
of stem, $ in. broad. Umbel rays sometimes 11, up to 7 in. long, sometimes 47^» 
only lin.long. Spikelets often large, 1 by 4 in. 
INDETERMINABLE SPEÓIES. 
: t 
C. KAMPRGYENERI, Boeck. Cyp. Nove, i. (1888), 5 ; rhizome tuberous, style bu 
little exserted shortly 2-fid.—NICOBAR Isrps.; Kamphævener. 
3. JUNCELLUS. 
Stem erect, simple, leafy only near base. Inflorescence umbellate or 
capitate. Spikelets ineat or oblong, compressed; rhacheola persistent, 
Glumes distichous, deciduous, concave, muticous, 2 lowest empty, 4- terior; 
ceeding bisexual, uppermost 1-3 sterile or empty. Stamens 3-2, an rst 
anthers oblong-linear. Nut plano-convex, broad plane face flat en 
rhacheola; style-base continuous with nut, not tumid; branches 2, 
—Species 12, in all warm climates. 
b 
This genus is Cyperi Sect. Juncellus of Kunth, and differs from DC, ii 
having a 2-fid style, and more or less compressed, not equilaterally R rms with 
Several of the species have been considered by Boeckeler and others as 
2-branched styles of corresponding species of Cyperus. 
* Inflorescence umbelled. 
l. J. serotinus, C. B. Clarke; stoloniferous, stout, stem, linear 
triquetrous thick, leaves and bracts long, umbel compound, spikelets han 
in dense spikes, glumes broad-ovate obtuse 7-9-nerved, nut longe" um. ii. 
the glume. Cyperus serotinus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 91; Kunth e Host. 
19; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 492. C. Monti, Linn. f. Suppl. 1 fig. 666; 
Gram, Austr. iv. 38, t. 67 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 32, t. 279, J8 
C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 72, t. 3, fig. 29; Boiss. FL 
366. C. japonicus, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 140. C. pun 
de in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 189 (not of Vahl).—Monti, Bonon. 
t. 1, fig. 2. 
cticulatus 
Prodr. . 12, 
