Cyperus. | CLXXII, CYPERACE®. (C. B. Clarke.) 617 
From the PUNJAB, 7. Thomson, to Ntonmt Mrs., Hohenacker, scattered, not 
tmmon,—DrsTRrE. S. Europe, Afric., Americ. 
Stolons exceedingly slender, with small pale scales, often disappearing after the 
fübers are formed ; tubers (ripe) woody, more regularly zoned than those of C. 
rotundus, Glumes in fruit slightly rigid, so that they are less closely imbricated 
(than in C, rotundus) the spikelets more turgid.—So close to C. rotundus that it is 
much mixed with it in many herbaria. 
Sect. 7. ExaLTATL. Tall. Stolons0. Leaves and bracts long. Umbel 
tge compound, spikes and spikelets many. Rhachilla of spikelets con- 
‘plcuously winged. Anthers apiculate, not rarely crested. Style (with 
1*3 branches) small. Nut small, ashy black. (Sp. 56-61.) 
56. C. radiatus, Vahl Enum. ii. 369; spikes digitate scarcely 
peduncled long-cylindrie dense, spikelets linear 19-30-fld., glumes (even 
in fruit) closely imbricate, wings of rhachilla oblong persistent, anthers 
short-oblong not crested, Kunth Enum. ii. 71; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 
317; C. B, Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 185. C. involucratus, Poir. in 
Lam, Encye: vii. 258. C. verticillatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 206; Kunth l.c. 71; 
ees in Wight Contrib. 87. C. digitatus, Mees l.c. 85 (not Rozb.). C. 
Roylei, Arn. in Wight Contrib. 85 (in note); Kunth l. c. 100. C. obscurus, 
Nees in Hook. Kew Journ. vi. 27. Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 9345. 
e AGRA, Munro to PENANG, Curtis; plentiful in Bengal.—DISTRIB. As., 
+» Amer, 
labrous, Stems 1-3 ft. Leaves often $ stem, } in. broad. Umbel simple or 
dp Pound ; spikes 1 by 4 in., very dense. Spikelets commonly 4- by Ae in., usually 
All-colrd,, not bright yellow or red-brown. Glumes hroad ovate, keeled, obtuse, 
Senerved on back, muticous or sometimes mucronate. Nut ovoid, 2-3 length of 
gne style $ as long as nut, branches 3 linear small. 
3r. c. exaltatus, Retz Obs. v. 11; spikes (some) peduncled long- 
lindrie, spikelets very many (not tightly crowded) linear 8-20-fld., glumes 
‘ven in fruit) closely imbricate, wings of rhachilla oblong persistent, 
d'e oblong not crested, Kunth Enum. ii. 70; Nees in Wight Contrib. 
(ecl. ©, fastigiatus) ; Thw. Enum. 343; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 319; 
"geng arke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 186 (incl. var. B ameena.) C. odoratus, 
Et Fl. Ini, 20, t. 8, fig. 2 (not Linn.). C.venustus, Br. Prodr. 217; 
unth l e, 68 (partly); Thw. Enum. 432. C. umbellatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 
( | Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 284; Arn. in Wight Contrib. 85 in Obs. 
A Benth). C. alopecuroides, Rowb. l.c. 208. C. acerosus, Roxb. ms.; 
le. 84 (in mote). ©. oryzeticola, Steud. Syn. Cyp. 37. C. race- 
nr. o Ene, ms.; Boeck. in Flora, lxii. 555 (not Boeck. in Linnea, 
Xv], 310) C. parviflerus, Heyne, MS., Wall. Cat. n. 3343, B. (cf. Kunth 
pum. di, 115, not of Nees). Papyrus venustus, Schrader in Mart. Fl. 
„s ll (part i.) 59 in note. C. maximus, elatus, parviflorus, extensus, 
catus, Herb, Heyne; Wall. Cat. 3343. C. verticillatus, Herb. Wight & 
"b. Ham; Wall. Cat. 3343, H, I.—Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3327, 3328. 
we the PuxzaAB to AssAM and CEYLON ; common.— DisTRIB. Trop. and 
: regions, 
om 9-6 ft.— Hardly to be distinguished from large forms of C. radiatus, but by 
P dense spikes, Spikelets often brightly coloured. E 
ar, B dives, C. B. Clarke l.c. 187 ; umbel divaricate rigid, ripe. spikelets rigid 
Been reading at right angles somewhat turgid, style 3-fid. C. dives, Delile Fl. 
Did 5, t. 4, fig. 3; Kunth Enum. ii. 71 ; €. B. Clarke l c. 293. cU lopeeuroides, 
Bake, xxxvi. 322.—N. India; from Sind, Pinwill to Chittagong, J. D. 
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