602 | CLXXIL OYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [Cyperus. 
i 2,1 in. broad, weak. 
tems, Stems 8-16 in., slender. Leaves à length of stem, de O à 
Braets 2-3, up to 1-14 in. Spikelets commonly 3 by % in. (sometimes keng 
as long). Glwmes very close-packed, acutely keeled, many-nerved. 
trigonous, black ; style nearly as long as nut, branches linear. 
odose at 
14. C. leucocephalus, Retz. Obs. v. 11; stems slender n 
base, with one dense globose white head, spikelets compressed, gamos 
oblong-obtuse obscurely 3-l-nerved, nut oblong i-$ lengt d of 8 zeng 
Kunth Enum. ii. 97; Boeck. in Linnza, xxxv. 590; C. B. Clar i n it? 
Linn. Soc. xxi. 107. C. pulchellus, Br. Prodr. 213. C. sorostae y". T Tad. 
l.c. 588. Sorostachys kyllingioides, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 71; à tall Cat. 
Bat. iii. 296.—Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3536 (partly). Lipocarpha, . 
3445, D. 
Scattered from Moneuir, Wallich, to MYSORE, Law, and MARTABAN, Wallich; 
seldom collected).—DistR1B. Tropics generally. . ves 
( Glabrous. Ge 4-10 in., cepspitose on a very short woody rhizome Bu in 
about 4 length of stem, narrow. Inflorescence 3-4 in. in diam. Spi long KS 
large forms nearly 4 by + in., up to 28-fld.; in small only % in. ut, branches 
Stamen 1. Nut black, white reticulate; style much shorter than nut, 
linear small. 
. ick, often 
Sect. 5. Conglomerati. Rhizome woody, creeping; rootlets thick, o 
woolly. Inflorescence umbelled or with 1 head. (Sp. 15-19.) 
. . uch- 
15. C. arenarius, Retz. Obs. iv. 9 ; stems solitar distant Die 
divided creeping rhizome subterete at top 1-headed, spikete trigonous 
oblong 10-16-fld., glumes ovate obtuse, nut obovoid unequp Y m. ii. 46; 
i length of glume. Mees in Wight Contrib. 77; Kunth Enu A. XXXV. 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 284; Thw. Enum. 342; Boeck. in Linne Soc. xxi. 
936 ; Aitch. Cat. Punjab Pl.154; O. B. Clarke in Journ. Fan of Rottb.). 
106. C. conglomeratus, var. y Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 369 (not of Trimen 
Robartia indica, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 17, & Amon. Acad. i. 388) 10 "fig. Je 
in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxiv. 135.) — Pluk. Almag. 178, t. 300, Jeu 
Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3314 A. (partly), 3535.—Scirpus glomeratus, 
Heyne; Wall. Cat. 3460. 
Seacoast from SIND to CEYLON and Orissa. PungaB PLA! 
Duthie.—Di18TRIB. Persia, Arabia. 2 in. Leaves often 
Glabrous. Rhizome slender, roots not woolly. Stems 4-12 nn. berect often 35 
overtopping stem, AA in. broad. Bracts 2-3, lowest 2—4 in. long,  Glumes 
though continuing stem. Spikelets straw-colrd., finally brown. e very 
shaped, strongly 3-nerved. Nut concavo-convex dusky black; style 
branches linear longish. 
short, 
. roots 
16. C. conglomeratus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 21, t. 15 f E ie linear 
woolly, stems at base approximate somewhat thickened, Sp! d unequally 
rather large 8-16-fld., glumes minutely mucronate, nut obovoló P poiss. 
trigonous j length of glume. Decne. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2, 1. 5 
l. Orient. v. 369 (var. a in great part). C. Jeminicus,, xxxv. 
le. 25, t. 8, fig. 1 (not of Retz). C. pungens, Boeck. in Linnen, 113. € 
(except part of a elata); C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. XY- 
proteinolepis, var. 8 pumila, Boeck. 1. c. 523. 
SIND; Lace.—DisTRIB.; Westwd. to N. Africa. 94 iny SOME” 
Glabrous. Rhizome sometimes elongate, j-iin.in diam. Stems on ple, not 
what robust. Leaves often 4 length of stem and upwards. Um 
rarely contracted into 1 head; rays often 3—4, about 1 in. long. 
