Cyperus. ] OXLIII. CYPERACER. 259 
Sw 
Calvert ; New England, €. Stuart; Richmond River, C. Moore, Mrs. Hodgkinson. 
i toria Mount Aberdeen and Buffalo Range, F. Mueller ; and a dwarf form 
to 2 in. high, Mitta-Mitta and Upper Hume Rivers, F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Torrens River, F. Mueller. 
The species is widely distributed over East India, extending on the one hand to 
West tropical Africa, and on the other, more sparingly, to the Malayan Archipelago. 
ong the Indian forms Boeckeler distinguishes the larger ones with the elongated 
much connected in Australia as in In by 
to be specifically separated. The South African C. Mundtii, Kunth, 
, t. 9 ever evidently the larger form of C. eragrostis, 
pare African C. lanceus, tow eler, æa, v. 462, refers it on the 
Ory of a specim r to come from u 
sion ie considered as authentic. In this uncertainty it could only produce confu- 
adopt Lamarck's older name for either species. 
C. flavescens, Linn.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 5.—In the typical 
"uj s only in the upper or nearly all the flowers of several specimens. 
half audet Nut flat, ovate, with one edge next the rhachis, about 
72, pe, Sth of the glume.—Sibth. Fl. Gr. t. 47; Host. Gram. iii. t. 
* Seichb. Ie, F]. Germ. t. 278; Beckel. in Linnza, xxxv. 438. 
N.s. Wales, Woolls ; Bowen Downs, Birch. 
The typical f i chiefly to i 
Portion orm belongs to the Mediterranean region and to its western 
Which, jin’ there are tropical frekan Bust a few East Indian specimens 
the Australian ones above mentioned, appear to be nei deme 
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