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THE OYPERACE^ OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 



BY 



L. J. Sedgwick, f.l.s., i.c.s. 



The Flora of the Bombay Presidency by T. Cooke, the last 

 part of which, containing the Cyperace^ and GRAMiNEiE was 

 published in December 1908, is not entirely complete, and probably 

 no family is so incomplete as the CYPERACEiE. The idea of this 

 paper is, therefore, to provide a more up-to-date flora of this family. 

 The number of species given by Cooke is 102. To these I have 

 added 20, viz. .• — 



Cyperus cephalotes Vahl. 

 „ platystylis Br. 

 „ (Pycreus) flavescens L. 

 „ distans L. 



„ pilosus Vahl. 



„ stoloniferus lietz. 



„ esculentus L. 

 Marisus Sieberianus Nees. 

 Kyllmga brevifolia liotth. 



Fimbristylis acuminata Vahl. 



„ tenera, var. oxylepis Che. 



Steiiophyllus puberula {Fair.) 



,, capillaris, vai'. trifida 



(Kunth.). 

 Scirpus mucronatus L. 



„ erectus Pair. 

 Lipocarpha argentea Br. 



„ sphacelata Kunih. 



Scleria caricina Benth. 

 ,, elata Thiv. 



melanosperma Nees. 



It is noticeable that several of these where collected by the late 

 Mr, Talbot as early as 1884, which makes it clear that Cooke did 

 not have the advantage of using the Talbot Herbarium when 

 writing the last part of his Flora. As against these 19 added 

 species I have excluded 6 out of those given by Cooke, viz. : — 



Scirpus kylliiigoides Boeck. 

 Ithyncospora Wallichiana Kimth. 

 Carex condensata Nees, — 



Cyperus pulcherrimus Willd, 



„ corymbosus Bottb. 

 Fimbristylis mouticola Hochst. 



mentioning in each case the reason for their exclusion. 



The material on which this paper is based are the sheets in 

 the Herbarium of the Economic Botanist and the Talbot Her- 

 barium, both of them kindly lent me by Dr. H. H. Mann, the 

 Principal of the College of Agriculture, Poena, — a vast quantity 

 of material collected by Father Blatter and Mr. Hallberg of the St. 

 Xavier's College, Bombay, and kindl}'' lent to me by them, — and 

 the collections made by myself in the 4.hmedabad District and in 

 the Dharwar District and adjacent parts of North Kanara. 



As this paper was unavoidably prepari-d far from civilization I 

 have had virtually no literature to help me except the Flora of 

 British India and Cooke's Flora. Through the kindness of Dr. 

 Mann [ was lent the volanie of" Ilkxstrationsof Cyperacete," London, 

 1909, a posthumous work of C. B, Clarke, and this has been useful 

 in one or two cases. But very few of the Bombay Cyperacea? are 

 figured there ; and a few sj'stematic puzzles have arisen, which I 

 have thought better to leave unsolved, but merely stated, rather 



