614 oam, OYPERAOEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Cyperus. 
xvi. 14 (not of Nees). C. lucidulus, C. B. Olarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 
. t. 
99, and xxv. 80 (not of Klein, except by mixture).—Cyperus, Wall. Ca 
3321, 3367. 
: Ilich, 
Throughout moist Inpra, alt. 500-5000 ft., plentiful, pun een ign 
and Assam, Griffith, to CEYLON, Thwaites, and MALACOA, Griffith.— 
. ric., and Austral. . istant 
AS RN Rhizome short, horizontal, woody. Stems solitary but peere 
of 13-3 ft. (small examples under a foot occur), slender for then ae e straggling, 
Leaves 3 stem, 1 in. broad. Umbel in well-developed examp Se P "but small 1- 
rays 4-10 up to 9 in. with radioles of secondary umbels up to t s long as umbe 
headed examples are frequent, with all intermediate forms ; prec s “Spikelets 3-16, 
or greatly overtopping it. Spikes large, open, rhachis gla rous. Pbtuse, 7-1l- 
often 1 by A in. 20-fld., compressed. Glumes boat-shaped, ova e wings oblong 
nerved, in fruit scarcely imbricated ; rhachilla slender, in fruit üexuow » triquetrous, 
hyaline separating. Stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, muticous. 
obtuse ; style shorter than nut, slender; branches linear, slender. 
: izome 
Sect. 6. Rotundi. Tall or medium plants, stoloniferous or m ns 
woody. Leaves and bracts long. Rhachilla of spikelets winged. 
closely imbricated. (Sp. 48-55.) ` 
H OH 
48. C. longus, Linn. Sp. Pl. 67; rhizome somewhat bo ioa 
stem rather robust at top subacutely trigonous, at base ob Een rhizome, 
bent not nodosely thickened nor suddenly contracted into reall length of 
spikelets shortly spicate linear-oblong 6~16-fld., nut e $a; Boiss 
glume. Kunth Enum. ii. 60; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 279, Var. 4) | 
` , 164, 
Fl. Orient. v. 375, vars. B, y; O. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. XX 
excl. vars. B, y. 
tlantic. 
QUETTA, Hamilton, Mr. Asoo, G. King.—DISTRIB. Westward to e stria 
Glabrous. Rhizome j5-i in. in diam., clothed by loose ovate Ü Di rays , 
brown scales. Stems 1-3 ft. Leaves 3-8 stem, } in. broad. l h ferruginous 0 
1-10 in. long. Spikelets 4 by +5 in, slightly compressed, greenies on, margins 
chestnut-red. Glumes ovate, obtuse, hardly keeled, 5-7-nerved, bac E carcel api" 
narrowly scarious. Stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, muticous is onous, black; 
culate. Wings of rhacheola elliptie, hyaline, persistent. Nut Wei ck., the 
style shorter than nut, branches linear shortly exsert.—Var. tenuiflora, 
: i jn the above 
commoner Mediterranean form is not Indian, and is scarcely included 1 
description. 
" . ; stolons 
49. C. stenostachyus, Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 280; ta) Y elets 
long with distant bulbous thickenings, umbel compound compat" ; 
densely spicate sub 
lia. 
erect (otherwise nearly as C. longus). — Austra 
hat 
: ect somew 
Stolons long, A in, in diam. Stems 23 ft., triquetrous, at base ere’ i. 
N —This mg 
bulbose. Lowest bract 12-16 in., as though a continuation of stem. u base ecam- 
esteemed a var. of C. longus (as by Boeckeler), which has the stem 
bent, passin 
lar 
i rectang! 
g into the root without a bulbose thickening, and the spikelets 
spreading. 
rown. C. 
Var. 8 indica ; lowest bract Heyne, ™ 
longus, Linn., var. gracilis, 
Wall. Cat. 3349, 3329, F. 
: inous b 
suberect very long, spikelets ferrug! us 
Boeck, in Linnaa, xxxvi. 281. C. denudatus, 
—Drcoan PENINSULA, Wallich. 
. . stem : 
50. C. rotundus, Linn. S». Pl. 67 (not Linn. Herb.) $ therwis? 
nodosely thickened suddenly constricted into a wiry rhizom So: Kunth 
nearly as C. longus). Roxb. Hort. Beng. 5, and Fl. Ind. 1. ( 
; nae, X 
num. ii. 58 (exel. C. bulbosus, Vahl, and others) ; Boeck. in Linn 
