278 CXLIIL OYPERACEZX. [ Cyperus. 
Szorrox IV. Papyrus, Nees.—Spikelets flat or terete, with navicular 
or concave glumes, the angles of the rhachis bordere by eh 
41. C. tegetiformis, Roxb. ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 56.— Rhizome creep- 
ing. Stems stout, 3 to 5 ft high, eph ie the angles often acute In 
the upper part, leafless except the long loose sheathing scales at the 
base, the uppermost sometimes produced into a short lamina. Spike- 
angled.— C. choses, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. Prof. 47, as to the m 
plant not of Rottb. ; ; € enodis, Beeckel. in Linnea, xxxvi. 271; C. spam 
phyllus, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 260, not of Steud. 
N. Australia. Lower Victoria River, F. Mueller. 
s is also in East India. It has some of the characters of the dle 
audet but is too pans allied to the following Hf species to be deri as similar 
em, e €. posce ied Steud. is the C. malaccensis Lam., a ually 
glumes but a leafy stem, the rhachis of the spikelets not es and ed 
3-angled nuts. 
prominent. Style -cleft "Ru 
rather broad, triquetrous.—Beckel. in Linnea, xxxvi. 274 
Australia. Port Essington, Armst Widely spread over nem Ane» 
critici of the N. American Union. 
