874 CXLA'I. CT^EEACE.!;. 



Stamens 3, with long filaments. Nut yVyV i"- ^^'^g' ellipsoid, trigonous, 

 brown; style ^ in. long; stigmas rather shorter than the style, 

 Marisc'us bulbosus, C. B. Clarke, in Hook, f. M. B. I. v. 6 (1893) p. 620 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 431, Kyllinga bulbosa, 

 Koenig, in Valil, Euum, v, 2 (1806) p, 376 {in note). — Flowers : Oct. 



S. M. CouNTKY : Woodrow, 36 ! ; Badami, Woodrow ; Dharwar, Woodrow. Kanaka : 

 N. Kanara, Young ex C. B. Clarke.— Y>iSTRnA. India (W. Peninsula). 



As tlie name Cyperus bulbosus is preoccupied by Vahl's plant [Valil, Enum. v. 2, 

 (1806) p. 342], I have had to find a new name for this, and, as it was fir.st described 

 by Mr. C. B. Clarke, I have adopted the name C. Clarkei. 



41, Cyperus konkanensis, {nov. sp.) T. Coole. Ehizome short ; 

 stolons on the only specimen seen ; root-fibres stout ; stems reaching 

 30 in, long from a thickened base, stout, trigonous, striate, smooth, 

 about h in. hi diam. at the base. Leaves l|-2 ft. long; sheaths reaching 

 6-10 in. long, striate. Inflorescence reaching 9 in. long. Umbel com- 

 pound, with 4-6 long rays tip to 7 in. long, and some sessile spikes at 

 its base; secondary umbels with 3-4 sessile spikes of many widely 

 spreading spikelets ; bracts of primary umbel i-2 ft. long, up to | in. 

 broad, leaf-like ; bracts of secondary umbel |-1 in. long, filiform ; 

 bracteoles j^— I in- long, lanceolate or aristate from a lanceolate base. 

 Spikelets exceeding I in. long, lanceolate, subterete, Jg- in, in diam,, 

 somewhat distantly placed along the rhachis, shining, straw-colored. 

 Lowest glume -jJ^ in, long, oblong, obtuse, scarious, with parallel nerves. 

 Upper glumes | in. long, twisted, wrapped round the nut, deeply striate 

 to the margins which are not hyaline. Stamens 3; anthers jlg- in. long, 

 narrow, pointed, reddish-brown. Nut \ by -^-^ in., oblong, trigonous, 

 pale-brown ; style yV in, long ; stigmas 3, reaching \ in. long, much 

 exserted. Mariscus Sieberianvs, Woodr. in .lourn. Bomb. Nat. v, 13 

 (1901) p. 431 {not of Nees). ? Mariscus uinbellatus, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 285. 



XoNKAN : Western Ghats, Woodrow, 34! 



There is but one sheet from the Bombay Presidency in Herb. Kew. collected by 

 Woodrow, containing 1 specimen only, Mr. Clarke has labelled the specimen 

 Marixm Sieberianus var. suhcomposifa (forma gigantea), and in a pencilled note on 

 the sheet remarks ? Sp. nova. It is a much larger and coarser plant than the var. 

 suhcomposifa alluded to, the spikelets are not closely packed but rather distant, the 

 glumes are distinctly twisted and conspicuously striate up to the non-hyaline margins. 



42, Cyperus paniceus {Mariscus), VaJil, Enum. v, 2 (1806) p. 373, 

 Var. Roxburghiana, C. B. Clarke, hi Hoolc f. Fl. B. I. v. 6 (1893) 

 p. 621 (under Mariscus). Perennial ; rootstock small, horizontal, stolon- 

 iferous ; stolons slender, rigid; stems up to 2 ft, long, trigonous, 

 smooth. Leaves long, narrow^ 1-nerved, Umbel simple ; rays reaching 

 sometimes 2 in. long ; spikes reaching 1 by 5-3 in., cylindric ; the rhachis 

 closely clothed with the ])ersistent lower glumes of the spikelets ; bracts 

 5-7, the longest reaching 10 or 11 in, long, leaf-like. Spikelets ^-! in, 

 long, consisting of 4 glumes, the 2 lowest empty, scarious, the third 

 fertile, the fourth empty, lanceolate, with a long subulate tij); rhachilla 

 winged above the articulation. Nut-bearing glume g-^ in, long, lanceo- 

 late-subulate, convolute, wra])ped round the upper glume and nut ; hack 

 strongly 3-nerved ; sides scarcely striate, often dotted with brown spots, 

 and with narrowly hyaline margins. Stamens 3; anthers long, slender. 

 Nut nearly ^ in. long, slightly curved, oblong-ellipsoid, attenuated at 



