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Cyperus. ] CLXXIL CYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 615 
183: Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 288 ; Thw. Enum. 343, partly; C. B. Clarke 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 292, and xxi. 167 ; Attch. & Hems. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc, ser. 2, Bot. iii. 191. C. hexastachyus, Jottb. Descr. et Ic. 98, t. 14, 
lg. 2; Nees in Wight Contrib. 81 (partly). C. leptostachyus, Griff. Itin. 
Notes, 821 (not of Nees). C. tenuiflorus, Royle Ill. 419 (not Rottb.).— 
Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3317 A (partly), 3322, 3353, 3373. C. albidus, Herd. 
tyne; Wall. Cat. 3356; Rumph. Herb. Amb. vi. 1, t. 1. 
Jena, alt, 0-6000 ft., a pestiferous weed.—DisTRIB. All warm regions. 
. Glabrous. Stolons slender, up to 4-8 in., hardening into wiry roots, thickened 
Into black woody ovoid tubers j-1 in. in diam., not (or very obscurely) zoned. 
à subsolitary, 4-32 in., at top triquetrous. Leaves long, often overtopping stem, 
tiim broad. “Umbel frequently compound, primary rays 2-8 in., spikes loosely 
Spicate of 3-8 spikelets; but umbel sometimes large, sometimes reduced to 1 head 
ad (in a common Calcutta form) to 1 spikelet. Spikelets in flower or fruit un- 
tinguishable from C. longus. 
Var. B centiflora, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 171; spikelets elongate 
many-fid. often curved or twisted. Mowenvn, Wall. Cat. 3378 (right-hand 
ample). The Deccan, G. Thomson, n. 258.—1n this (n. 258) the spikelets are 
m., with 118 flowers, but all forms intermediate between this and C. rotundus 
r. 
8l. C. stoloniferus, Retz Obs. iv. 10 ; rhizome woody long-creeping, 
ms at top trigonous at base nodose, umbel simple contracted or sub- 
"iate, spikelets terete shortly spicate, glumes close-packed concave 
tuse, style-branches 3 long, nut obovoid unequally trigonous somewhat 
carved, Nees in Wight Contrib. 81; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxv. 489 (excl. 
‘yn. C. tuberosus and var. B); C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 286, 
s Xx 172. ©. littoralis, Br. Prodr. 216. C. tuberosus, Bojer. Hort. 
purit. 379; Kunth Enum. ii. 50; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 283. C. 
miandus, part, Kunth l. c. 59. C. bulboso-stoloniferus, Steud. in Zoll. Verz. 
ad. Archip, ii. 62, and Syn. Cyp. 18. C. conjunctus, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 18. 
3i mprocarpus, Boeck. Le 490. C. juncifolius, Klein ms. ; Wall. Cat. 
a A. Q. Jemenicus, Heyne; Wall. Cat. 3315, B. C. arenarius, Hance 
—Üyperus, Wall. Cat. 3309, mixed. 
the nores of INDIA, especiaily in sea sand; from Sind to Ceylon, Coromandel, and 
ee Peninsula,—Nilghiri Mts., Foulkes. DisrRIB. Mauritius, China, Malaya, 
ia. 
wéllen long, hardening into the creeping rhizome, not producing tunicated 
ils, Stems 4-8 in. Umbel rays 0-1 in.; bracts usually 3, varying in length as 
C the leaves, Spikelets 4 by A in., 8-20-fld. ; glumes more closely packed than in 
‘rotundus, their margins often glistening hyaline. 
52 €. Fenzelianus, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 93; tall, stolons long 
thickish, leaves and bracts elongate, umbel large compound, spikelete 
sng and old) straw-colour (otherwise as C. longus or large C. rotundus). 
"s n Linnea, xxxvi. 997. C. pallescens, Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. uo (not 
305 ont). ©, ochreoides, Steud. l.c. 94. C. tenuiflorus, Balfour Socotra, 
tot (not of Rottb.). ©. longus var. pallida, Boeck. l. c. 980 (excl. C. mitis, 
D 2 Boiss). ©, longus, vars. B pallescens and e elongata (partly), 
Foe Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 165, 166. C. rotundus, Boeck. in 
a lxii, 554. 
DRAS ; Chinga . Thomson, n. 383.—DıstRIB. Westwd. to N. Africa. 
i" -3 ft., robust, M bce somewhat nodose then suddenly narrowed into 
rhizome 3+-ġ in. diam. Leaves often nearly as long as stems, $ in. broad, 
