610 OLXXIL OYPERAOEEZ, (C. B. Clarke.) [ Cyperus. 
dangerous to Cyperologists ; many examples have the rhachis of the spikes distinctly 
seabrous-pilose, occasionally it M quite glabrous. Further, there are two plants 
exceedingly like C. pilosus in general aspect, viz. Juncellus Monti and Cyperns 
procerus, Rottb., andin both of these the rhachis of spikelets is occasionally scabro 
pilose. 
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Var. B obliqua, C. B. Clarke l.c. 151; spikelets with fewer (sometimes ony 
5-6) flowers often pale and very far apart. C. obliquus, Nees in Wight oniri; 
86; Kunth Enum. ii. 60; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 611; W. Wats. W "a 
Atkinson Gaz. x. 383. C. quinqueflorus, Hochst. ms. ; Steud. syn yp. 
(partly).—INp1A; widely scattered, but very much less common than the type. 
Java. 
: bels 
Var. y polyantha, C. B. Clarke Le: umbel rays 2j in., secondary um ` 
corymbose, rhachis of spikes nearly glabrous, spikelets 1 in. 40-45-fld. chestnut 
red.—Bengal; Mymensingh, C. B. Clarke. 
38. C- Babakensis, Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 62; umbel of 
few rays, secondary umbels condensed into oblong or square dense neis 
compound-spikes, rhachis of spikes not pilose (scarcely scabrous), PP brow! 
more robust than those of C. pilosus, glumes boat-shaped hispid-sta L. in 
at the top of keel, nut hardly 3 glume (otherwise as C. pilosus). GC in 
Linnea, xxxv. 521. C. Babakan, Steud. Syn. Cup. 6 (wr ongly P arke D 
Pycreus). C. bengalensis and pilosus, var. ô Babakensis, C. B. "3 E. 
Journ. Linn, Soc. xxi. 151. C. Bacha, Herb. Ham.; Wall. Cat. 
(partly). 
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East BENGAL; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6207); Nathpur, Wallich, n- we 
E. (partly) ; Mymensingh, C. B. Clarke. — DisTRIB. Java. t. Spike 
Rays of wmbel 3-6, lowest much longer than the others, erect, stou rhacheola 
2 by 1} in. very dense. Spikelets $ by i-j in., 14-40-fid., red-brown; * 
stout. 
39. C. procerus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 29, t. 5, fig. 9 ; stout, gs e 
(but see var. 8), secondary umbels loosely corymbed of 1-5 spt length 0 
lets remote large 20-46-fld., glumes broad obtuse, nut. obovoid L Ze, & 
glume (otherwise nearly as large C. pilosus). Nees in Wight Enum. ji. 
(excl. syn.) ; Rob. Fl. Ind. i. 203 (excl. cit. Rheede) and Kunth Enum $ 
72 ; Thw. Enum. 343 ; Boeck. in Flora, lviii. 84; C. B. Clarke in Jow. Suk 
Soc. xxi. 152 (excl. syn. Roth.). C. ornatus, Br. Prodr. 217. 7 pet 5, v 
Heyne ms.; Nees l.c. C. amoyensis, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 867 
249. C. Heynei, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 600. C. carnosus à 
Herb. Heyne; Wall. Cat. 3355, A. 
ft. 
_ BENGAL to CEYLON and SINGAPORE ; mostly near the sea, rarely alt. 0-3000 
in valleys.—DrsTRIB. Amoy, Tonkin, Java. * istant large 
Very like large forms of C. pilosus, but with open inflorescence, dis ^i „red. 
spikelets, often 1 by 1—L in., either straw-colour or red-tinged, sometime mE 
— Though very closely allied to C. pilosus, it is seldom referred to it, e Ad vi 
rhachis of spikes is glabrous. From its red colour it has been confoun 
Pycreus puncticulatus, Nees, 
, alt. 
Var. B lasiorrhachis; axis of spikelets scabrous-pilose.—Chota Nagpore? e; 
2000 ft., C. B. Clarke.— Perhaps the plant collected by V. Ball in Chota Nag} 
ef. C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxi. 151, in note. 
j e Sp. 
Bories B. Rhachilla of spikelets (usually conspicuously) winged. | 
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