866 CXLVI. CTPEBACEiE. 



with a short stout iinicro extending beyond the rounded tip, with many 

 reddish-brown nerves and hyaline margins. Stamens 3 ; filaments jL 

 in. long, ligulate ; anthers yellow, i in. long, narrowly linear, muticous. 

 Nut (immature) -^^ in. long, obovoid, compressed, trigonous, yellow ; 

 stvle reaching i in. long, flattened ; stigmas 3, capillary, much longer 

 than the style.'^ Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 602 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 23 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 13 (1901) p. 430. Cyperus jmm/ens, 

 Boeck. in Linnaea, v. 35 (1868) p. 537 ; C. B. Clarke, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. V. 21 (1884) p. 113.— Flowers : Nov.-Feb. 



Gujarat: Ahmedahad, Woodrow. Sind: Pinwilll; Sibi, Lace, 34G2! — Distkib. 

 India (W. Peninsula); Ceylon, Trop. Africa, Mediterranean region. 



Vae. ixicliyrhizvs, Trimen MSS. ex Hook. f. in Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5 



(1900) p. 23. More slender; leaves narrower; heads 2 in. in diam.; 

 spikelets smaller and narrower ; glumes muticous. C. pachyrhizvs (sp.), 

 Nees ex Boeck. in Linnsea, v. 35 (1868) p. 545 ; C. B. Clarke, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soe. v. 21 (1884) p. Ill & in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 603; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. JS^at. v. 13 (1901) p. 430.— Flowers : Nov.- 

 Dec. 



XoNKAN : Law I Gujarat : (Katliiawar) Verawal, Woodrow ! ; Porbander, Woodrow. 

 — DiSTEiB. India (W. Peninsula) ; Cej-lon, Laccadive Isles. 



25. Cyperus compressus, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 46. A glabrous 

 annual ; root fibrous ; stems tufted, 4-16 in. long, erect, slender, 

 trigonous, with rounded smooth angles. Leaves shorter or longer than 

 the stem, j^-^ in. broad, finely acuminate, 1-nerved. Umbel simple, 

 often with a sessile head at the fork or occasionally altogether reduced 

 to a sessile head ; rays 3-6, reaching 3 in. long, bearing 4-8 terminal 

 spikelets ; bracts 3-5, finelv acuminate, leaf-like, the longest reaching 

 4^ in. long. Spikelets i-l} by ^-i in., much compressed, yellow when 

 ripe, linear-oblong, 20-40-flowered ; rhachilla stout, angular, closely 

 scarred, scarcely winged. Glumes i in. long (including the mucro), 

 oblong-lanceolate, closely imbricate ; keel produced into a slightly 

 recurved, laterally compressed mucro ./^ - ^^ ^ in. long, beyond the obtuse 

 tip ; sides membranous, green or yellow, striate, with short hyaline 

 margins. Stamens 3; filaments nearly ^ in. long, ligulate; anthers jL 

 in. long, yellow, linear, muticous. Nut -^ in. long, broadly obovoid, 

 triquetrous, black ; style -^^ in. long ; stigmas 3, as long as the style. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 6, p. 605 ; Grab. Cat. p. 231 : Dalz. & Gibs. p. 282; Boeck. 

 in Linna^a, v. 35 (1868) p. 517 ; C. B. Clarke, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 21, 

 p. 97; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 5, p. 33 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 



(1901) p. 430 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1140; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, 



p. 683. 



Peccan: Dalzell c^- Gihsov; Poona, Wondrov. Sind: Pinwill'. — Distkib. Tliroughout 

 India; Coybm, Tropit-al Africa, Asia, and America. 



26. Cyperus aristatus, Itotth. Descrip. et Icon. (1773) p. 23, t. 6, 

 fig. 1. A small glabrous annual 3-6 in. high; roots fibrous; stems 

 tufted, stout or slender, trigonous. I^eaves usually shorter than the 

 stem, erect, -j^^-yV in. broad, acuminate, flat, l-nerved, flaccid. Umbol 

 with 2-5 rays, or capitate with numerous spikelets crowded into a 

 globose or oblong head \-h in. long ; bracts 2-5, the longest reaching 

 in wfll-developed specimens 3| in. long, hrondpr than the leaves at the 



