80 CLAKKE. 
3. Pycreus polystachyus Beauv, Fl. d' Owar. 2 (1807) 48. t. 86. f. 2. 
Moderately stout, heads (short spikes) in a dense umbel or compound 
head ; glumes mnticous. 
m 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. .6: 592; Hemsl. Journ. Linn. See. 36 (1903) 205. 
Gyperns polystachyus R. Br. Prodr. 214; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 385; ^Miq. Fl. Nederl. 
Ind. 3: 258, Suppl. 2C0, non Rottb. C odoraius Linn. ! Sp. PI. ed. 1, 46, ed. 2, 
68 et herb, propr., pro majore parte. C teretifructus Steud. ! in ZoH. Verz. 
Ind. Archip. heft. 2, 62, et Cyp. 3. . ' 
Philippines, {196 Chamisso) -^ (1870 Wichura), Luzon, (876 Jar/or); (792 
holier) ; Panay, (98 Copeland) , 
In all warm countries, especially near the sea, one of the most generally 
distributed and abundant species of Gypet'occw, 
Sir J. D, Hooker (in Trimen Fl. Ceylon 5: 20) says that this species may 
have a 3-fid style. Unfortunately the sheeft from Ceylon, 800 Thwaites, contains 
Pycreus polystachyus Beauv., mixed with Cyperus ZoUingeri Steud., which latter 
was dissected by Hook, f., and found with 3-fid styles. 
Var. /3 laxiflorus Benth. ! Fl. Austral. 7: 261. 
r 
Spikes (and umbels) opened out, the spikelets often quite solitary. 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Tnd. 6: 592. Cyperus panicuJaius Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 40; 
Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beechy Voy. 99. 
Luzon, (877 Jagor) ; Manila, {Wichura). 
In all warm coimtries, especially near the sea; a common plant. 
4. Pycreus sulci nux C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 593. 
Slender; umbel and spikes very loose; spikelets elongate; nut nn- 
sjmimetric^ subconcave on the margin next the axis. 
Cyperus sulcinux C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. 21 (1884) 56. 
Philippines {Moselcy). Luzon, Benguet, (4289 Merrill); (6579 Elmer). 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, (44 Clemens), 
Scattered throughout the warmer regions of the Old World. Frequent in 
India. 
5. Pycreus globosus Reich. Fl. Germ. Excurs. (1830-32) 140.^" 
TJmbel simple or reduced to one head ; spikelets clustered, usually 
pale or greenish. 
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 203. Ptjcreus capillaris Nees in 
Linntea 9 (1834) 283; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 591. Cyperus glolosus ,Alliom ^ 
Fl. Pedem. Auctuar. 49. C, vulgaris Kunth Enum. 2: 4; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 
385; Miq. Fl. Nederl. Ind. 3: 256. C. muci'cmatus Moritzi ! Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 95. 
G. jungendus Steud. ! in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. heft 2, 03, et Cyp. 3. G. irachir- 
rhackis Steud. ! 11. cc. 62, 3. C. flavescens Benth. ! Fl. Austral. 7: 259 (excl. 
syn.) ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 2: 140, 211. 
Philippines, {%16 Jagor), 
Old World, from Spain to Japan and north Australia, a common plant. 
Bare in tropical Africa. 
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