CLXXIL CYPERACEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 625 
6. COURTOISIA, Nees. 
_ Glumes persistent, 2 lowest empty, 1-3 succeeding (in the Indian species) 
bisexual nut-bearing winged on keel; rhacheola disarticulating above the 
two lowest empty glumes. Otherwise as Mariscus.—Species 2 or 3, in 
Africa, Madagascar, India. 
C. cyperoides, Nees in Linnea, ix. [1834] 286, and in Wight Con- 
trib. 92; umbel compound, spikes globose very dense yellow-brown, spike- 
lets compressed very flat broad-elliptic containing 1-2 nuts, style 3-fid, 
nut narrow-oblong 2 length of glume. Arn. in Edinb. N. Phil. Jonrn. xvii. 
262; Kunth Enum. ii. 127; Boeck. in Flora, xliv. 335, and in Linnea, 
muy. 434; Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1341. Kyllinga cyperoides, Roxb. Fl. 
Ind.i.189. Mariscus cyperoides, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 348. Cyperus Kleini- 
anus, Hochst. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 645. C. glomeratus, Klein ms.— 
Wall. Cat. 3537. 
From SIKKIM and Assam to Mapras and PEGU, alt. 0-6000 ft., frequent.— 
Disrgis, Madagascar. 
. Glabrous, annual. Stems 3-16 in., caespitose. Leaves often as long as stem, 
š in. broad, nearly smooth. Umbel rays 3-10, up to 1-4 in. long; bracts 3-7, up to 
4-12 in. long; raylets of umbellules 3-5, up to 1 in.; bracteoles of umbellules often 
lin. Spikes 4-1 in. in diam. Spikelets lin. Glumes boat-shaped, flattened ; 
keel with a continuous glistening entire wing its whole length; sides not striate. 
Stamens 3; anthers oblong. Nut trigonous, acutely-pyramidal at top, almost 
beaked, chestnut black, smooth, outermost cells small, subquadrate. Style short, 
Persistent ; branches linear, much longer than style, exsert. 
7. BLEOCHARIS, R. Br. 
Glabrous. Stems simple, erect, without nodes. Leaves 0, sheaths few 
cylindric truncate or with a small unilateral subapical tooth, barren leaf- 
e stems often present. Inflorescence a single (rarely more) terminal 
Spkelet. GZumes imbricate on all sides, obtuse ; lowest “ bract,” (but not 
Ways empty), not longer than the spikelet. Lowest flower nut-bearing, 
rfect; many succeeding glumes usually nut-bearing, upper tabescent. 
Ypogynous bristles 8-5, rarely fewer (in E. atropurpurea, often small 
or 0. Stamens 3-1, anterior; anthers linear-oblong, not crested. Style 
far, as long as the nut, branches 3 or 2, linear; style-base dilated, 
constricted or apparently articulated on the nut, but usually persistent. 
ut obovoid, plano-convex (when style bifid) or trigonous (when style 
).—Species 113, cosmopolitan. 
Sect. I. LiwNocuroa, Nees in Wight Contrib. 114 (not of Lestib.); 
stems stout or medium; spikelets elongate, many-fld.; glumes subrigid, 
e no-concave, not (or scarcely) keeled, of one colour nearly.—All stoloni- 
Tous, 
* Nut smooth (i.e. outer cells small, quadrate-hexagonal, inconspicuous). 
Style 2-3.84. 
l. E. plantaginea, Br. Prod. 224 (in note); stems robust terete 
transversely septate when dry, spikelet fuscous straw-colrd. hardly wider 
than stem, style 2-3-fid. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii, 302; Thwaites Enum. 
352. E. tumida, Roem. & Sch. Syst. Mant. ii. 86. Scirpus plantagi- 
roides, Rottb. Deser. et Ic. 45, t. 15, fig. 2. S. plantagineus, Retz. Obs. v. 
ae Roxb. Fl. Ind. i.212 ? S.dubius, Roch Le. 215 (specimen imper- 
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