258 CXLIIL CYPERACEZX. [ Cyperus. 
us li laris, Linn. ; Sieb. Leer n. 106. 
C. spectabilis, Schreb. ; Kunth, um 73, was published as an rae” räin 
plant on the of one. received at the pudm of Erlangen pin hw & 
des Plantes at Paris under the name of C. Par ramatta, Mart. No such n pen 
ie. Catalogues of the Jardin, and Boeckeler in Linnea, xxxv. 605, identifies ep 
xican species 
SEorrON 1. Pycreus, Nees.—Spikelets several-flowered, flat with 
oaral keeled glumes, the rhachis not winged or with a ean 
border. Style usually 2-cleft. Nut more or less flattened, “with on 
edge next the rhachis. 
f 
The qoum F Sh as foL artificial one, the first five species having lage Ad 
some of th , the €. ENE | often resembling the C. rotwndatus, 
the C. tain peat habit of C. proc 
C. pumil Linn.; Kunth, Enum. à. 4— arf e 
annual, the stem aeldini above 3 or 4in. high, the leaves neni yo e 
and narrow. Umbel simple or slightly compound, of 3 to 6 pare 
rays, the longest 1 to 2 in. long, besides the sessile clusters. Spi 
6 to 12 together, in loose clusters or short spikes. nvolue A kelots 
generally 3, of which 1 or 2 longer than the inflorescence. Sp! da 
resembling those of C. cuspidatus, pnr peut yon ace flat, rà a 
ne 
acute, brown, 3 to 4 lines long and e road, trial 
flowered, the rhachis not winged. Glumes spreading, loosely im pe 
or rather distant, the green keel with a prominent nerve on €2 
p 
yex 
Stamens 2 or sometimes 1 only. Style 2-clett. Nut oborta f e. 
with one edge next t Sy rhachis, less than half the length of t pact 
—C. nitens, Vahl; Boeckel. in Linn aps xxxv. 483; C. brev 
F. Muell. Fragm. viii. i 267, not of R. 
Queensland. Port Denison, Fitzalan ; sou Q' Shanesy- "adit 
The species is widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa. Bæckeler m ak der the 
uniting as one species the s ym of Kunth's Cyperi, .de and 
right in Roxb: 
names of €. hyalinus, sn nitens and C. membranaceus, Vahl, C. Lagi Bæckel. 
C. ustralian specimens belong to the var. e 
(6: patena, Vahl, not ed rs Kunth), wi ^ with loose "rue and rather narroWcr spik 
ets than in commoner East Indian fo 
; Kunth, Enum. ii. 7.—A perennial, aoig 
perhaps oe reba es year, but forming short slender cree t of €. 
ascending r and sometimes with the short tufted the gus mes 
Jiavescens, differing from that species chiefly in the colour of the zs f 
Stems mostly 6 in. to about 1 ft. high. but sometimes short 
longer. Leaves shorter than in stem, all radieal or extending ui 
half way up. Spikelets either very fow in a sessile cluster, wal 
numerous in a compound cluster or with 1 or 2 slightly ¢ " racts 
umbel rays each bearing a cluster. Involucre of 2 to 4n vg dns prow? 
1 or 2 much longer than the inflorescence. Spikelets flat, dar 
