Cyperus.] OLXXIL OCYPERACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 619 
and bracts very long broad, umbel very large, spikes long linear-cylindric, 
spikelets linear subterete suberect dirty straw-colour, wings of rhacheola 
broad-lanceolate yellow separating, crest of anthers 4—2 length of cells. 
Ü. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 190. C.elatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 
3. (not of Linn.). C. maximus, Roxb. ms. C. fastigiatus, Rottl. in Neu. 
Sr. Gesell. Freunde Berlin, iv. 210 (not of Rottb.). C. eminens, Klein, 
We; Kunth Enum. ii. 70; Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvi. 919. C. Roxburghii, 
Nees in Wight Contrib. 84; Kunth l.c. 99; Thw. Enum, 843. Papyrus 
latifolius, Willd. in Abhandl. Akad. Berol. (1816), 74.—Cyperus, Wall. 
Cat. 3341, B. 
Deccan PENINSULA ; Rottler, &c. CEYLON; Thwaites (n. 3041). 
Stem 6 ft., sometimes more, at top triquetrous, scabrous, angles cutting. Leaves 
l in. broad, two lateral nerves prominent above, whiteish underneath, often 
‘abrous on keel, Primary rays of umbel 8-10 in. Spikes 4 in. 
RESIDUARY SPECIES. 
_ € BRUNNESCENS, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. ii. 3; robust, wholly brown-fuscous, umbel 
"mple 6-8 in, diam., spikelets oblong obtuse, glumes 8-10-striate with recurved 
_ Mero, style very slender deeply 3-fid. Singapore; Voight. 
Ve CORONARIUS, Kunth Enum. ii, 44. (Scirpus coronarius, Vahl Enum. ii. 261. 
epis coronaria, Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 119.) Bengal Style trifid, Kunth; bifid, 
|, “ Resembles Kyllingia monocephalæ” Vahl. 
y, S; CYLINDRICUS, Boeck. in Flora, xlii. 437 bis.—Ixp. ORIENT. “Very like C. 
* ‘anus, Spreng.," Boeckeler. But C. Wallichianus, Spreng. has been in- 
diable to botanists (see Kunth Enum. ii. 98) nor is it known where Boeckeler has 
ùcidated it, 
. C. mpueps, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. i. 6 (not of Persoon) ; 2 ft., umbel compound 6 
Hi im., spikes dense cylindric, style deeply 3-fid, rhacheola narrowly winged.— 
ex. ya ; Bulwascher Valley, alt. 2000 ft., and Jubbulpore, alt. 1000 ft., O. Kuntze 
op Cyp. chilensis,” Boeck.). 
` PUSIL ii i . . Obs, iv. 9.— 
Tranquebar. LUS, Vahl Enum. ii. 303, ie. C. pygmæus, Retz $. iv 
C RieIDuLUs, Vahl Enum. ii. 842.—Ind. Orient. 
C. SETIFOLIUS, Don Prodr. 38.—Nepaul. 
Wi SPONGIOSO-VAGINATUS, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. i. 6; tall, umbel compound, spike- 
ay spicate, wings of rhachilla linear-oblong cuspidate yellow soon separating. 
NGAL; O. Kunfze,— Perhaps C. digitatus or C. Oatesii. 
c. TENER, Vahl Enum. ii. 299.—Ind. Orient.—** Isolepidis sp. 2." Kunth. 
TRISULCUS, Don Prodr. 39.—Nepaul. 
Brass, UMBELLATUs, Burm. Fi. Ind. 21, t. 9, fig. 1. (not Rozb.).— Perhaps 
| Se VALLICRIANUS, Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 28 (C. pulcher, Don Prodr. 38).— 
5. MARISCUS, Vahl. 
Leaves and bracts grass-like. Glumes persistent, 2 lowest empty, 1-12 
lowe, t ng bisexual nut-bearing; rhacheola disarticulating above the 2 
varm regina glumes leaving a knob.—Otherwise as Oyperus.—Sp. 160, 
ERI I. BunsocavLI. Base of stem oblong thickened by the turgid 
ranous coloured sheaths. (Sp. 1-2.) 
