606 CLXXIL OYPERACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Cyperus. 
Glabrous. Stems cmspitose, 4-16 in., or (in the form C. pectiniformis, Nees) 
0-2 in. Leaves often nearly as long as stem, $-} in. broad. Umbel rays 0-6 in. ; 
bracts often longer than umbel, leaf-like. Spikelets 4-1 by i-i in. (in form proe 
formis up to 14 in. and 20-60-fld. Glumes densely, not rigidly, imbricated, ova » 
many-nerved, mucro scarcely recurved. Stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, nis M 
apiculate. Mut } length of glume, very broad; style shorter than nut, branc 
linear shortly exsert. 
98. C. glaber, Linn. Mant. 179; umbels contracted, spikelets very 
closely spicate more or less red-tinged, glumes muticous or very neary key 
nut obovoid obtuse minutely conic-apiculate (otherwise as C. compr "az, 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 32, t. 280, fig. 669; Boeck. in Linnza, xxx d 
C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 104; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 371. ^ 
patulus, Kitaib. ex Host Gram. Austr. ii. 49, t. 74; Kunth Enum. Y. 
24; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 240 (not of Bieb.). 
Bn: Pinwill.—DrisTRIB. Westward to Sicily. . nin C. 
Umbel rays 3-13 in. Glwmes nearly always reddish on the sides (gree 
compressus). 
29. C. aristatus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 23, t. 6, fig. 13. small am 
nearly simple or reduced to 1 head, spikelets densely spicate b adth 
glumes ovate-lanceolate many-striate over nearly their whole lon th 
acuminate into a recurved bristle, nut oblong or narrow-obovoid $ eag 3 
of glume (bristle inclusive). Roxb. FL. Ind. i. 190; Kunth Enum Za 
(excl. syn. Burm.) ; Strachey Cat. Pl. Kumaon 74; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bo 
262; Thw. Enum. 343 (excl. syn. Ham.); Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 100 "e 
B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 91; Trimen Cat. Ceylon P L C ntrib. 
squarrosus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 66 (partly). C. versicolor, Nees ins Wight Uo lata 
78. C. arenarius, Herb. Wight; Wall. Cat. 3374, 3375.—Isolepis echinwia™ 
Kunth Enum, ii. 205. 
T TRoPICAL and Temp. HIMAL. ; alt. 0-8500 ft., and thence to Ceylon.—D! 
Tropics, 
STRIB. 
30. C. Iria, Linn. Sp. PL. 07 (excl. Rheede); leaves and bracts ne 
spikelets spicate or subracemose linear 6-20-fld., glumes obovate 1 
hardly imbricate, nut triquetrous nearly as long as glume. Jo" d. Bat. 
i. 201; Nees in Wight Contrib. 87 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 38; Mig. Fl, In Journ. 
iii, 269 and Suppl. 260; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 282; Edgew. im oon 
Linn. Soc. ix. 319; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 595; King in E. T. A 3 ; 
Gaz. x. 620; Aitch. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 189 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. ‘Kare . 
C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 289 and xxi. 137. C. songarieu 
et Kiril. in Bull Soc, Mosc. [1841] 859. C. seminudus, Moritz ver Verz. 
Pf. 96 (not of Rozb.). C. diaphaniria and microiria, Steud. m Zo Maurit. 
Ind. Archip. ii. 62 and Syn. Cuyp. 23. C. microlepis, Baker Fi. rea, 
410 (not of Boeck.).—Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3360, 3361.—Oy perus, Coldst 
Grass. 8. Punjab, t. 38, A. 
INDIA, general in rice-fields.—DisrRIB. Old world. 1 
A glabrousshortlived weed. Stems esespitose, 4-20 in. Leaves often per tn size; 
as stem, 4 in. broad, grass-like, Umbel 2-20 in. in diam., varying greatly rym 
usually compound, 3-5, up to 4-12 in.; primary rays sometimes at y ies 5-20, 
sometimes again umbelled. Spikes very loosely spicate, rhachis 3-2 in. Spl e 
obliquely erect, yellow or brown (not red nor chestnut), 4—4 by Ze in; T : 
winged. Glumes 3—5-nerved on back, sides nerveless, muticous or scarcely 
Stamens 2 or 3; anthers oblong, muticous. Nut triquetrous, black; sty 
iculate. 
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