858 CXLVI. CTPERACE.li, 



20-50-flo\vered, brown or sometimes almost black ; rhachilla stout, 

 tetragouous, not winged, often spotted with red. Glumes ^ by yg- in. 

 long, closely imbricate, ovate-oblong, obtuse ; keel greenish-yellow with 

 brownish-red veins ; the sides brown with hyaline margins. Stamens 2. 

 Nuts -^ in. long, broadly or narrowly obovoid, rounded and apiculate 

 at the apex, laterally compressed, biconvex, dark chestnut-brown, slightly 

 papillose ; style about -^ in. long ; stigmas 2, as long as the style, 

 capillary. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 21. Cyperus ater, Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. 

 Fl. (1861) p. 283 {not of Vahl). C. capillaris, Keen, ex Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 v. 1 (1832) p. 194 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 283. Fycreus capillaris, Nees, in 

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

 p. 591 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1136. Pycreus capillaris var. nilngirica, 

 C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 592. 



Konkan: Stocks], Law I Deccan: Balzell cf- Gihsmi; Mabableshwar, Woodrow; 

 Poona, Jacquemont, 409 !, Cooke ! ; Soos, 8 miles north-west of Poona, Bhiva ! ; Hura, 

 Balzell e^ C.B. Clarke. — Distrib. Throughout India; Ceylon, temperate and tropical 

 regions of the Old World. 



Mr. Clarke describes a variety of this wliich he has called var. nilagirica and founds 

 it on tlie width of the spikelets, which are, lie says, narrower than in the type. I 

 cannot find that the character is at all a reliable one, and I have carefully examined 

 many specimens, both Indian and European. The color of the spikelets in Peninsular 

 specimens is usually darker than that of the Himalayan and European ones, but 

 Mr. Clarke has very distinctly stated in Dyer's ' Flora of Tropical Africa,' v. 8, 



I. 300, that he has founded the variety not on the color, which he considers accidental, 



ut on the width of the spikelets. 



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7. Cyperus albomarginatus. Mart. Sf Schrad. ex Nees, Fl. Bras. 

 V. 2, part 1 (1842) p. 9. A glabrous annual ; stem solitary, erect, 1-3 ft. 

 high, triquetrous above. Leaves shorter than the stem, ^ in. broad. 

 Umbel with 4-12 rays reaching sometimes 7 in. long ; secondary umbels 

 with 1-7 rays up to 1^ in. long ; bracts large, the longest sometimes 

 reaching 16 by \-^ in., linear, acuminate, striate, leaf-like ; bracteoles 

 of secondary umbels up to 1| in. long, very slender, almost filiform. 

 Spikes lj-2i in. long. Spikelets 8-20, distant, spreading, acute, |-| by 

 Y(j-^ in., paTe brown ; rhachilla stout, slightly winged. Glumes ^ by 

 f^ in,, elliptic-oblong, rounded and hyaline at the apex, scarcely keeled, 

 compressed, the back 5-7-nerved, the sides yellow or brown with 

 conspicuous white margins chiefly near the apex. Stamens usually 3 ; 

 anthers linear-oblong. Nut -^ in. long, obovoid, apiculate, rounded at 

 the apex, laterally compressed, granulate, black. Cyperus Hoch^tttteri, 

 Nees ex Krauss, in Flora, v. 28 (1845) p. 755 in note; C. B. Clarke, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 21 (1884) p. 69. Fycreus albomarginatus, Nees, in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. v. 2, part 1 (1842) p. 9 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 6, p. 594 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 430. 



Konkan: Stocks I; N. &. S. Konkan, Law I; Bombay, ex Herb. Hook, in Herb, 

 Kew. S. M. Country: Londa, IVoodrow. —Distrib. India (W. Peninsula, Rangoon); 

 Ethiopia, N. Australia. 



8. Cyperus puncticulatus, Vahl, Enum. v. 2 (1806) p. 348. A 

 glabrous annual ; stems robust, subsolitary, 1-2 ft. liigh, erect froui a 

 thickened base, trigonous or triquetrous above, the angles smooth. 

 Leaves as long as the stem or shorter, ^-^ in. broad, rather thick, 

 1-nerved, pale beneath ; margins smooth ; sheaths long. Umbel simple 

 or compound, with many slender rays reaching 6 in. or more, terminated 



