8G8 CXLTI. CTPERACEyE. 



compressed, membranous. Umbel compound ; primary rays 3-7, stout, 

 3-4 in. long; secondary rays bearing loosely corymbose spikt-s of 5-10 

 spreading compressed spikelets ; rhachis of spikes I'atlier stcmt, angular, 

 glabrous; bracts 2-5, the longest reaching sometimes 15 in. long, 

 divaricate, leaf-like. Spikelets remote, ^-1 by ^ in., linear-oblong, 

 10-50-flovvered, straw-colored or red ; rhachilla scarcely winged or 

 winged here and tbere, tetragonous. Glumes i-i in. long, rather 

 lo(^sely imbricate, cinnamon-red or straw-colored, boat-shaped ; back 

 with 5 or more nerves ; sides and tip with byaline margins. Stamens 3 ; 

 anthers -^jj in. long, oblong, muticous, yellow. Nut -^ in. long, broadly 

 obovoid, trigonous, apiculate, tapering towards the base, vellow; style 

 J^ in. long; stigmas 3, longer than the style, capillary. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 610 ; C. B. Clarke, in Journ. Linn. Soc.' v. 21 (1884) p. 152; Trim. 

 y\. Ceyl. V. 5, p. 34 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 431 ; 

 Prain, Bang. PI. p. 1 140. Cyperus Heynei, Boeck. in Linnsea, v. 35 

 (1868) p. 600. 



Rare. Konkan : Ooa, Woodnno. — Distkib. More or less tlirongliout India, chiefly 

 noMr the sea ; CeyloJi, Tonkin, Java. 



29. Cyperus nutans, VaU, Enum. v. 2 (1806) p. 313. A tall 

 perennial ; rhizome; tuberous, thicker than the thumb in old plants, 

 creeping; root-tibres matted; stems 2-3^ ft. long, stout, trigonous, 

 with smooth angles. Leaves as long as the stem, linear, \-h in. broad, 

 coriaceous in old plants, multistriate. Umbel very large, decompound ; 

 ])riiiiary rays reaching 10 in. long, slender, trigonous, bearing numerous 

 bracteate vnnbellules with secondary rays 1-2 in. long, each secondary ray 

 terminated by many unequal simple or paniculate lax spikes 1-1 5 in. 

 long, forming tassel-like clusters; rhachis slender; bracts 4-8, the 

 longest up to 12 by g in. Spikelets erect, \-\. by py in., G-IO- 

 fiowered, pale reddish-brown; rhachilla slender, scarcely winged, with 

 long interiiodes between the glumes about \ the lengtb of the glume. 

 Glumes yV by -gV in., oblong, distant, erect, obtuse, slortly apiculate, 

 rounded on the back, obscurely nerved, with narrow hyaline margins. 

 Stamens 3 : anthers linear-oblong. Niib ^ in long, narrow I)'" obovoid or 

 oblong, tapering towards the base, triquetrous, apicidate, yellow when 

 rij)e ; style -.yiy in. long; stigmas 3, longer than the stvle, capillary. 

 PI. B. L V. 6, p. 01 -7; Boeck. in Linna>a, v. 35 (1868) p. .597; C. B. 

 Clarke, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 21, p. 143 (exclud. svn.); Trim. PI. Ceyl. 

 v. 5, p. 31 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 430; Prain, 

 Beng. PI. p. 1140. Cyjnrus distans, (irah. Cat. p. "Z'd'I {not of Linn.); 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 283.— Flowers : Sept. 



Balzo.ll without lorality in Herb. Kew. ! Deccan : Khandala, Wimdroiv. — Distrib. 

 More or leys throuj^hout India. 



30. Cyperus eleusinoides, Kvuih, Enum. v. 2 (1837) p. 39. 

 Perennial ; rootstock woody, with short lateral shoots but no true 

 ptolons ; stems lj-4 ft. long, stout, triquetrous, with smooth angles. 

 Leaves usually shorter than the stem, rigid, flat, reaching ^ in. broad 

 with a stout midrib. Umbel erect, compound, w ilh 5-8 stout, trigonous 

 rays 4-8 in. long; spikes sessile or pedunculate, .j-1 ;* by {-J, in. in 

 diam., green or brown, bracteolate, ascending, never divaricate ; hracts 

 3 or 4, the longest sometimes more than 1 ft. long and \ in. broad, leaf- 



