286 CXLII. CYPERACEX. ` [ Cyperus. 
56. C. i. 
and thick. Stems stout, triquetrous, 1 to 3 ft. high, the angles acute and 
sometimes almost winged under the inflorescence. Leaves rather broad 
often as long as or longer than the stem, with long broad sheaths an 
ending in long narrow points. Spikelets in elongated spikes in à — 
pound umbel of many rays, the longer ones often 3 in. long. Invotu- 
th 
12- to 20-flowered, the rhachis bordered by hyaline wings N 
imbricate, narrow, shortly pointed, the keel prominent and o 
3-ne eless sides pale brown or almost hyaline Style 
cleft. Nut oblong, obtuse, triquetrous, much shorter than the Pd 
—F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 263 ; C. venustus, Kunth, Enum. ii. 68, back’ 
in Linnea, xxxvi. 316, not of R. Br. d 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray: King 
Creek, Bowman. b 
Abundant in tropical Asia, extending to the South Pacific Islands - eed 
tropical Africa, and very closely allied to but scarcely identical with the | ieri 
American C. giganteus. Itis also the n. 111 of Sieber's Agrostothect, but his 
mens are West Indian. 
; r 
Section 5. Drcrrpium, Nees.—Spikelets very narrow, is ^ 
nearly so, either several-flowered with narrow concave closely appre: 
gel 
embracing the nut, or reduced to a single perfect flower, the WIDE 
truding beyond it, with or without a terminal imperfect glume j pa 
mentary flower. Style 3-cleft. Nut equally 3-sided. After nr 
ing the rhachis is often articulate at or near the base, the 2 “both 
lower empty glumes either falling off with the spikelet or one or 
remaining persistent 
t, 
57. C. ferax, Rich. ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 89.—Stems usually wes 
1 to 3 ft. high, acutely or obtusely 3-angled. Leaves shorter or Tai". 
t 1 1 
as long as the stem. Spikelets numerous, in elongated spikes 7. E 
mpound umb f erous 
404, not of Lam. 
Queensland. Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Mount Elliot and Daintree Riv 
alan ; Gracemere, O’ Shanesy. 
