276 CXLIIL. CYPERACER. [ Cyperus. 
2 nerves on each side. Style 3-cleft. Nut broad, acutely 3-angled, : 
than half the length of the glume.—Beckel. in Linnea, xxxv. 598; #. 
Muell. Fragm. vii. 260 
^ Queensland. Brisbane River, F. Mueller. Widely spread over tropical Asia. 
37. C. ornatus, R. Br. Prod. 217.—Stems rather stout, 1 to er 
high, obtusely triquetrous. Leaves long, but usually shorter than s 
stem. Spikelets loosely spicate or almost racemose, occupying D y 
8 rimary ones of à 
2 short ones. Spikelets spreading, sessile or stipitate, of a rich en. 
linear-lanceolate, 5 to 6 lines long, or in some Indian specimens tw 
not winged umes navicular but obscurely keeled, at first ee 
at length slightly spreading, obtuse or scarcely acute, of à uh 
shining brown, but bordered by a white hyaline margin so 
‘Beeckel. in Linnza, xxxv. 600 
: ‘ insula 
N.S. Wales. Hawkesbury, R. Brown. Found also in the Indian Penns 
and in Ceylon. 
ly 
The species closely resembles a digynous species of the sections Pyereus generally 
hee not 
referred to C. puncticulatus Vahl, and agreeing with his description, ae sual 
"however mention the number of style-branches nor the shape of the nut. 
C. procerus is probably a mere variety of C. rotundus. 
from 1 to y flat, 2 t0 
longer than the inflorescence. Spikelets linear-oblong, obtuse, gei 
5 lines long, 1 to 1j lines broad and 6- to 12-flowered in the co 
N. Australia. Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller. 
Queensland. Port Denison, Fitzalan; Bowen Down, Birch. 
wert 
Var, flav Spikelets fewer in the spike but longer, with 12 to 19 ca de 
assuming nearly the aspect of C. scens, although in pecimens - 
umbel-rays break out into the ordi longer spike with few-flowered SP elets. 
