876 CXLVI. CYPERACE.i:. 



Marlsciis microce/Jialus, Presl, Eel. Ilaenk. (1830) p. 182; C. B. Clarke, 

 in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 624. 



SiND : PinwiU I— DisTRin. More oi* less throughout India; CeyloD, Mauritius, 

 China, Mahiya. 



Excluded Species. 



CTPEJtUS GZABF.B, Linti. Mantiss. (1771) p. 179. Spikelets tinged with red ; glumes 

 muticous <ir nearly so; nut obovoid, obtuse, miuutelv conic-apiculate (otherwise as 

 C. compresmis). C. B. Clarke, io Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. ii, p. 606. 



There is no specimen of C. glaher in the Indian bundles in Herb. Kew. 



CYPERUS ESCULF.NTUS, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 45. Stolons long, slender, bearing 

 tubes; spikelets yellow or brownish: glumes plicate-striate over nearly their whole 

 breadth. C. B Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 616; Woodr. in Jouin. Bomb. 

 Isat. V. 13 (1901) p. 431. 



There is in Herb. Kew. a solitary specimen from Jacquemont (No. 277) which, 

 according to the ticket on it, was collected between Ellora and Poona. As Ellora is 

 in the Nizam's dominions, and at least 120 miles from Poona, and as no precise 

 locality has been given, the existence of the plant in the Bombay Presidency is 

 extremelj' doubtful, especially as no Bombay botanists have apparently met with it. 



2. KYLLINGA, Eottb. 



Perennial herbs tufted or with a creeping rhizome; stem trigonous, 

 leafy below only, terminated by 1-3 sessile capitate spikes. Leaves 

 narrow. Spikelets minute, green, strongly laterally compressed, 1-2- 

 flowered, densely packed on short sessile oblong or globose involucrate 

 spikes ; rhachis short, naked after the fall of the spikelets, or squarrosely 

 covered with the more or less persistent lowest glumes ; rhachilla \ ery 

 minute, disarticulating above the two lowest glumes. Gluujes 4, 

 distichous, the two lowest hyaline, empty, much shorter than the third 

 and fourth, the third and fourth much the largest, often green and 

 speckled with brown, subequal or the upper longest, unequal-sided, 

 keeled; keel sometimes winged, apiculate or cuspidate. Stamens 1-3 ; 

 anthers long or short. Ovary suborbicular ; style long or short, not 

 swollen at the base; stigmas 2, linear. Fruit a strongly laterally com- 

 pressed smooth nut, sometimes apiciUate by the persistent style-base. — 

 DismiB. All hot and temperate regions except Europe ; species 33, 



Nut-bearing glume winged in upper half of keel ; rhizome 



creeping, elongate 1. K. monoccphala. 



Nut-bearing glume not winged in upper half of keel ; rhizome 



very short 2. K. triceps. 



1. Kyllinga monocephala, Rotth. D<'scrip. ct Icon. (1773) p. 13, 



t. 4, hg. 4. Grlal)rous or nearly so ; rhizome creeping, elongate : stems 

 3-12 in. high, usually solitary, erect. Leaves shorter than the stem, 

 J^y-jl- in. broad, linear, acute with a strong midnerve. Spikes solitary 

 (rarely 2-3), the lateral when present very small, the middle spike ^-^ in. 

 in diam.; rhachis naked or pitted after the fall of the spikelets, the 

 lowest glumes mostly deciduous; floral bracts 3-4, very long and narrow, 

 similar to the leaves. Spikelets ^^^ in. long, 1-flowered. Two outer 

 glumes hyaline, the lowest glume narrowly ovate- lanceolate, J^ in. lone;, 

 the second glume broadly ovate, obtuse ; glumes 3 and 4 green, often 

 sparsely speckled with brown, falcately incurved, acuminate, the upper 



