CXLVI. CYPEEACE^. 875 



each end, trigonous, pale-brown ; style ^ in. long ; stigmas 3, longer 

 than the style, capillary. Mariscus cyperinus, Nees, in Wight, Coutrib. 

 (1834) p. 90, var. a (not of Vahl). Scirjpus ecJmiatus, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 (1753) p. 50, KylUnga umbellata, Roxb. Icon. ined. t. 191. 



KoNKAN : Lawl — Distrib. More or less throughout India ; Ceylon, Java. 



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

 " Konkan, Law" containing two specimens (without leaves) vehich consist each of a 

 piece of the upper portion of a stem less than 3 in. long, carrying spikes and bracts. 



43. Cyperus pennatus, Lam. Illust. v. 1 (1791) p. 144. Perennial ; 



rootstock tuberous, woody, stoloniterous ; root-fibres very stout ; stem 

 2-3 ft. by 5 in. or more in diam., stout, trigonous, smooth. Leaves 

 longer than the stem, sometimes reaching 4 ft. long by 5 in. broad, 

 coriaceous, sometimes septato-puuctate, the margins and keel scaberulous. 

 Umbel compound, 4-8 in. in diam., with 4-8 stout rays 1-3 in. long and 

 short secondary rays with spreading cylindric sessile spikes ^-1 in. long, 

 covered with stout horizontally spreading spikelets ; bracts 4-6, leaf-like, 

 up to 16 in. long. Spikelets |-j\ in. long, reddish-brown or straw- 

 colored, oblong- lanceolate, acute, subterete, 3-6-flowered ; rhachilla with 

 short Mdnged internodes. Glumes closely imbricate, concave, ovate, 

 subobtuse, the nut-bearing ones reaching -^ in. long, dorsally rounded, 

 spotted with brown ; nerves many, slender, the margins narrowly 

 hyaline. Stamens 3 ; anthers small, oblong. Nut jL in. long, ellipsoid, 

 trigonous, black when ripe ; style -^ in. long; stiguias 3, longer than 

 the style. C. B. Clarke, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 21, p. 194. Cyperus 

 canescens, Boeck. in Linnsea, v. 36 (1870) p. 340. Marisciis albescens, 

 Gaud, in Preyc. Voy. Bot. (1826) p. 415 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Ph 

 B. I. V. 6, p. 623 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 431 ; 

 Prain. Beng. PI. p. 1146. — Plowers : Oct. 



Konkan: Cool:e\; Mahad, froo(?raw. Deccan : 'La.no\\,Woorlroiu. — Distrib. India 

 (Bengal, Birnia, W. Peninsula); Ceylon, Ethiopia, China, Malaya, Oceania. 



Cyperus stuppeus, Forst. Prodr. (1786) p. 89, should perhaps as the older name have 

 precedence. 



44. Cyperus dilutus, Vahl, Enum. v. 2 (1806^ p. 357. Perennial, 

 glabrous ; rootstock short ; stem 1—4 ft. long, obtusely trigonous, smooth. 

 Leaves as long as or longer than the stems, up to | in. broad, coriaceous 

 or spongy, septato-punctate, the margins and keel scaberulous. Umbel 

 large, decompound ; rays many, trigonous, up to 6 in. long, simple or 

 bearing secondary or tertiary umbellules, the ultimate rays terminated 

 by globose heads (contracted spikes) |-1 in. in diam., of innumerable 

 narrow stellately spreading spikelets ; bracts many, long and broad in 

 large specimens, few and narrow in small ones, leaf-like. Spikelets 

 ^-^ in. long, slender, terete, red-brown, shining, bearing 4-14 nuts ; 

 rhachilla very slender, with internodes about J^ in. long, and oblong 

 persistent wings. Glumes reaching i by -^^ in., loosely imbricate, 

 faintly nerved, straight, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, dorsally 

 rounded, the margins not hyaline. Stamens 3 ; anthers -^ in. long, 

 reddish-brown, muticous. JNut (not including beak) reaching ^ in. 

 long, oblanceolate-oblong, narrow, acutel}^ trigonous, stipitate, distinctly 

 beaked ; style shorter than the nut ; stigmas 3, exserted. Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, v. 36 (1870) p. 354 ; 0. B. Clarke, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 21 

 (1884) p. 193. Cypeni^ spinulosus, Roxb. PI. Ind. v. 1 (1832) p. 203. 



