THl-: CYPEliACE.i: OF THE liOMBAY rUESIDENCY. 689 



A very abumlant st'dge of rict'-fields and ntlu-r damp places throughout 

 the President' V. (Ohl world). 



10. C- OdoratUS, /■'"''• C. [iolydnclbyo.<, Kottb. ' Vycrens jiolysl- 

 cliijo^ JJciiiir. JVreiiuial, tiil'ted, 1---^ ft., base thickened. Steni 

 sometimes obsolete. Umbel simple with very short raj^s, or 

 contracted into one liead. Spikelets many. v. narrow, |- x ] in. 

 pale, sub-erect, even in fruit, very many-tiowered. X-at brown, 

 oblong'-ellipsoid. apicalate. 



Coasts of the Pri'sideucy and the regions just inland, ajip. very rare. (All 

 warm regions, mainly maritime). 



11- C. hyalinus, I '*'/</. ('. inmiilas, Nees. P. pumilus,!^^^^. 

 Annual, small, slender, 2-8 inches. Umliels simple with few short 

 rays or reduced to a head. Spikelets i x jl. in., yellowish, about 7- 

 flowered. much compressed. Glumes of a ver^^ unusual shape, 

 back (which is strongly nerved) curved convexly and then shortly 

 recurved at the apex, something like a question mark ; sides with 

 several very strong raised nerves, radiating from the base of the 

 glume, and then cinn-ing along the sides parallel to the curve of the 

 back. Xut brown, obliquely oblong, obovate. A very distinct 

 species. 



Very rare. Apparently only from Sion, Bombay. (India. W. Peninsula, 

 Ceylon, Timor). ^ 



!-• C. pumilUS, Li, 1 1). C. nitens, Yahl. F. nifens, Xees. A 

 small tufted annual, 2-8 inches. Spikelets in terminal heads (or 

 occasionally the head umbellateh^ broken up), very many-flowered, 

 exactly parallel-sided, g x ,\ in., very pale, glumes with a short cus- 

 pidate point, spreading in fruit. 



Throughout the Presidency, but rarer in the South. One of the common- 

 est sedges on sand in the drier northern tracts and thence onward into 

 the desert. (Warm — presumably drier — regions of the old world). 



Subgenus III.— (JUNCELLUS)— .Ym« dorsally co)npre$sed— Stir/mas 2 or G. 

 Key to the sub-genns : — 



(a) A dwarf herb, .spikelets close packed in a 



small terminal head .. .. .. }:}. C. pi/r/maeus. 



(,/-») A glaucous herb, about 1 ft. high, spikelets 



in a small, apparently lateral head . . 14. C. kieviyatus. 



(fi) A tall stout herb, spikelets in a large com- 

 pound umbel .. .. .. .. \'}. C. alopecuroides. 



1-5- C> pygmaeus, liottli. Stems only a few inches high, 

 densely tufted and ring from leafy bases. Heads dense, \ in. in 

 diam. J3racts several, large, spikelets ovate, small, green maturing 

 to pale brown. Glumes closely imbricate, acute or cuspidate, with 

 strong green keel and hyaline sides. Nut minute, elipsoid, acute, 

 flat on the ventral, convex or sub-aneular on the dorsal side 

 brown. Closely resembles Scirpus Michelianus (q. v.). 



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