Juncellus,) OLXXII. CYPERACER, (C. B. Clarke.) 595 
Kasmura; alt. 1000 ft., Jacquemont, Ze, PUNJAB; alt. 1000 ft., Thomson, 
kc—DisrRIB. from Spain to Japan. 
labrous, except sometimes rhachis of spikes. Stems solitary, 1-3 ft. Leaves 
as long as stem, 4-1 in. broad. Bracts 3-5, up to 8-18 in. leaf-like. Umbel 
nys 3-6, up to 2-6 in. long, very unequal, rather stout ; umbellules shortly corym- 
. © or capitate ; bracteoles short. Spikes of 5-40 spikelets. Spikelets 4-4 by 45-1 
m, 12-30.fld, (or shorter 6-8-fid.), turgid ; rhacheola robust, tetragonous, excavated, 
Sarcely winged, Glumes approximate ; margins narrowly scarious, in dried ripe 
"amples incurved crisped. Stamens 3; anthers scarcely apiculate. Style short ; 
ches about ag long as nut. Nut obovoid, obtuse, smooth, dark-brown.—Much 
sed in herbaria with Cyperus pilosus, Vahl, which it generally resembles and 
has farther the rhachis of the spikes minutely hairy, a rare character in Cyperus. 
A J. stylosus, C. B. Clarke ; stem at top trigonous slender, leaves 
‘nd bracts rather short, glumes not striate towards their margins, style- 
ncaes very long, nut (not quite ripe) small; otherwise as J. serotinus. 
rg Prus Monti, var. B? stylosa, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 
Krasta Bras ; Griffith, . 
Dior U not half length of stem. Bracts scarcely overtopping inflorescence. 
attis of spikes glabrous. Glumes chestnut-red, with very narrow white margins, 
bé asin J. serotinus. Spikelets comose from the persistent long dark-red styles. 
perhaps all imperfect. 
Sl J. inundatus, C. B. Clarke; stout, stem at top triquetrous thick, 
dë and bracts long, umbel compound, spikelets in loose spikes, glumes 
Bei 7-nerved, nut longer than 4 the glume. Cyperus inundatus, 
Se gee Ind. i. 201; Wall. Cat. 3342 A, B; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 
n fX. 31, 73 (not of Br.or Nees). C.diluvialis, Schultes in Roem. & 
dr st. ii. Mant, 124. C. puncticulatus, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 10 (partly, not 
Jeer, Wall. Cat. 3355, C. 3359, F. 
Bewaar; in swamps, from Sylhet to the sea, frequent.— DISTRIB. China. . 
from his of spike glabrous, 1-2 in., spikelets often ~} in. apart. Differs little 
dither ` Serotinus, but by the open spikes. In herbaria it is more frequently mixed 
Cyperus procerus or Pycreus puncticulatus. 
A4. alopecuroides, C. B. Clarke; large, leaves and bracts long, 
EN large compound, spikes cylindric very dense, spikelets linear-oblong 
"hu £ 8-30 nuts, glumes concave dirty straw-colour, rhachilla rather stout 
al nadrangular not winged, nut small } length of glume. Cyperus 
GI des, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. (1773), 38, t. 8, fig. 2; Nees in Wight 
"b. 76; Kunth Enum. ii. 195 Tho. Enum. 342; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 
Boiss d Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 261; Boeck. in Linnza, xxxvi. 322 (excl. var. a) ; 
Ch prient. v. 367; C. B. Clarke in Journ Linn. Soc. xxi. 30, 74, 
; King in T. E. Atkins. Gaz. x. (1876), 320. C. compositus, 
ps Prodr, 217. s semidives, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 36. C. speciosus, con- 
, alopecuroides, Herb. Heyne; Wall. Cat. 3344, B, C. 
De i i Distrib. 6150) to Sinner, 
ü Shout India, from Pesmawur, Griffith ( Kew 
"E T. T., and CEYLON, Thwaites.~DisTRiB. Afric. and Austral. trop. . 
ito large Blabrous annual, 2-3 ft. Leaves often as long as stem, i-i in. 
beeing ap JS Of umbel 4-6 in.; bracts 12-18 in., leaf-like; raylets often 1 in. 
Wees ` Apex 2-4 eb te spikes. Spikes 1-1} by ł in. Spikelets } in., 
; ] compressed. oleae muticous or mucronulate. Stamens 3; anthers 
b om ` „Nuts plano-convex, finally ashy-black (many imperfect pale); style 
*5 nut, branches longer, shortly exsert.— United by Boeckeler with 
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