268 CXLIIL CYPERACER. [ Cyperus. 
point. Stamen usually 1. Style 3-cleft. Nut obovoid but narrower 
than in C. squarrosus, Pinell Frag pin d.—Boeckel. in Linnea, xxxv. 
^ 
rini. Kien 8 Creek and Herbert Creek, Bowman. 
The species is widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa, extending northwards 
to S. China, and is also abundant in South and Central recs east of the Andes. 
21. C. squarrosus, Linn. Amen. Acad. iv. 303 and Spec. Pl. 66 
excl. iyi Pluken.—A. small tufted annual, the stem rarely above 4 in. 
0 
longer than the inflorescence. Spikelets flat, oblong or linear, 2 
lines long, 10- to 20-flowered, the rhachis not winged. Glumes rat iv 
narrow, 5- or 7-nerved, tapering into a long recurved point, with 
any or scarcely an aa ii margin. Stamen usually 1. Style 
cleft. Nut narrow-obovoid or oblong, prominently 3- angled, varying 
from rather broad and under half the length of the glume, to ge 
and longer than th .— C. aristatus, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. Pl. pu bs 
1; th, ere tye ii. 23; Boeckel. in eye x s 
N. Australia, urina s Archipelago, ege Gulf of Carper F.M ese 
th 
Quee d. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; various loc s in No 
Queensland, Armitage, Wuth ; or. aw nr Bonney. 
tral Australia. arlotte Waters, Giles. 
ar. congestus, Spikelets nw tore very Midi crowded in nearly globular 
take —Dry Beef Creek, Leic "pu 
Var. oplode aae: Spikelets 3- g 6-flowered, in dense eblong.cylindrie f F. 
under $ in. long.— C. vore F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 261. rt Denison, 
Mueller ; Rockhampton and Herbert's Creek, “Bowman 
ica and 
The species is widely oe ia over East India, tropical Africa, North Amer South 
Mexico, exten do Pacific side of the And es to y ini not gongs 
f Andes. It was 
re- 
ce 
presented by a good specimen in his herbarium. U eii he added a — 
to Plukenet which belongs to a very different plant pe the narrow f ¢ which 
flexuose spikelets and winged rhachis of the Papyrus section, This species, 9 inis, 9 
a small fragment is laid down in herb. Linn. by the side c of. the true C. sque cockeler 
the C. maderaspatanus, Willd. described as C. squarrosus by Rottboell, Kunth, 
and others. It is common in India but not yet found in A Australia. 
22. C. difformis, Li»».; Kun h, Enum. ii. 38.—Stems tufted, aee 
to 1i ft. high rather slender. asi sometimes as long as e wu 
but usually shorter, and sometimes all reduced to loose sheaths. 5P e 
edd numerous, in dense globular heads of + to 4 in . diameter, t d 
in a loose umbel of few rays, rarely co aimed. into a compo ory 
cluster, the rays usually slender.  Involueral bracts 1, 2 or 3, V 
