856 C'XLVl. CYPERACE^. 



stems 4-12 in. high, erect, slen-der, stiff, obscurely angled, striate. 

 Leaves shorter than the stem, linear, rather rigid, very acute, j^^ in. 

 broad. Umbel simple, sometimes reduced to one head; bracts 3, 

 unequal, the longest sometimes reaching 4 in. long, similar to the leaves. 

 Spikelets straw-colored, shaded with chestnut-brown, oblong-lanceolate, 

 compressed, |-f in, long, 20-60-flowered. Glumes ^ in. long, boat- 

 shaped, when opened out broadly ovate, acute, ^ in. broad, leaving a 

 scar on the rhachilla after falling. Nuts obovoid, black, -^ in. long, 

 very shortly apiculate, slightly compressed, microscopically longi- 

 tudinally striatulate and irregularly subreticulate ; style ^V~5ir ^^- -^"^^g ' 

 stigmas 2, filiform, longer than the style. Boeck. in Linnsea, v. 35 

 (1868) p. 467 ; Clarke, in Journ. Linu. Soc. v. 21 (1884) p. 40. Pycreus 

 latespicatus, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. FI. B. I. v. 6 (1893) p. 590 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 430; Prain, Beug. PI. 

 p. 1136. — Flowers : Sept. • 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Law ! Deccan : Mawal (Poona districts), Woodrow I — Distrib, 

 More or less throughout India. 



2. Cjrperus malabaricus, C. B. Clarice, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 34 

 (1898) p. 12 {Pycreus). Eoot fibrous ; stems cfespitose, slender, ] ft. 

 high. Leaves about | as long as the stem, jL in. broad, weak. Inflor- 

 escence about 1 in. long and broad, composed of 6-12 spikelets arranged 

 upon 2-3 sessile branchlets; involucral bracts 3, similar to the leaves, 

 the longest I'eaching 3| in. long. Spikelets 20-flowered, distant, \-^ by 

 ^ in., linear-oblong, subacute, the sides exactly parallel. Glumes Jg- in. 

 Ion"-, boat-shaped, dark brown with narrow white margins, when opened 

 out broadly ovate, acute, and -^ in. wide. Nut globosely ovoid, slightly 

 compressed, very shortly apiculate, brown, mici'oscopically longitudinally 

 striatulate and faintly transversely ribbed; style -y^'m. long; stigmas 2, 

 rather shorter than the style, filiform. Pycreus malaharicus, C. B. 

 Clarke (I.e.), Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v." 13 (1901) p. 430. 



Deccan: Laiioli, JVoodrowl; Khandala, C'uo/ic\, Woodrow I — Distrib. India (W. 

 Peninsula), ajipareutly endemic. 



3, Cyperus saixguinolentus, Vahl, Enum. v. 2 (1806) p. 351. 

 Ehizome creeping, as thick as a crow-quill, 4-10 in. long; stems 4-20 

 in. long, stout, decumbent at the base, often clothed ^ of their length 

 with leaf-sheaths. Leaves few, many or 0, as long as the stem or 

 shorter, Yjy~i ^^- broad, acuminate, 1-nerved; midrib often red. Umbel 

 small, simple; bracts 3-5, up to 5 in. long, foliaceous. Spikelets 3-6 

 (sometimes contracted into a single head), ^-| by g in., flat, linear or 

 oblong, 6-24-flowered, reddish-brown. Glumes -J^ by ^ in., boat- 

 shaped, broadly ovate, obtuse, nearly as broad as long, greenish-yellow 

 nud with 3 green nerves at the back, the sides reddish-brown. Anthers 

 linear, muticous. Nuts -^ in. long, suborbicular, laterally compressed, 

 shortly apiculate, biconvex, brown; style -gV-pg- in. long; stigmas 2, 

 capillary, about as long as the style. Nees, in Wight, Contrib. (1834) 

 p. 75 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 5, p. 20. Pi/creus sanguinolentus, Nees, in 

 Linnaja, v. 9 (1835) p. 283 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 590; Woodr. iu Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 430 ; Prain, 

 Beng. PI. p. 1136. 



KoNKAN : Lawl; Kalyan, Woodrow, 11! Deccan: Khandala, Woodrow. Sind : 

 PiHv:ill\—DiSTRin. Throughout India ; Ceylon, warm parts of the Old World. 



