CXrVI. CYPERACE.E. 877 



slightly the longer, but no. 3 the broader, the keel dorsally winged about 

 the middle, the wings spiniilose, sometimes obscurely developed. Anthers 

 small. Nut obovoid or oblong, compressed, rather more than half as 

 long as the glume, pale reddish-brown ; style rather more than -^ in. 

 long ; stigmas 2, filiform, as long as the style. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 588 ; 

 Grah. Cat. p. 232 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 285 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 44 ; 

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

 p. 1135. 



S. M. Country : Londa, Cooke I — Distrib. Throughout India; Ceylon, hot and 

 warm temperate regions jf tiie Old World except the Mediterranean. 



2. Kyllinga triceps, Roftb. Descrip. et Icon. (1773) p. 14, t. 4, fig. 6. 

 Glabrous ; rhizome very short or ; stems 2-9 in. long, tufted. Leaves 

 as long as (rarely longer) but usually shorter than the stem, yo— ^ in. 

 broad, linear, acute. Spikes ovoid-oblong or subcylindric, usually 3 

 together (rarely solitary), the middle one the largest, -^-j in. in diam.; 

 rhachis clothed, after the fall of the spikelets, with the persistent lower 

 glumes ; bracts beneath the head 3-4, leaf-like, up to 3 in. long. Two 

 lower glumes hyaline, the lowest lanceolate, acuminate, -^ in. loug, the 

 second lanceolate or suborbicular, the third and fourth herbaceous, 

 membranous, green not speckled with brown, ovate-lanceolate, obtusely 

 apiculate, strongly nerved, the uppermost (fourth) rather the longest, 

 y^-g-^ in. long. Stamens 2. Nut oblong or ellipsoid-oblong, yellowish- 

 brown, much compressed, -^ in. long ; style with 2 filiform stigmas, 

 together nearly as long as the nut. Fl. B. I. y. 6, p. 587 : Grah. Cat. 

 p. 232 ; Wight, Contrib. p. 91 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 5, p. 45 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 430.— Flowers : Sept. 



Deccan : Poona, Jacquemont, 34o !, Woodrow. Sind : Pinwilll — Distrib. India 

 (N.-West, Sind, Bengal, Birma); Ceylon, Africa, China, Australia. 



3. COURTOISIA, Nees. 



Herbs with erect simple stems, leafy only near the base. Leaves 

 grass-like. Spikelets compressed, in globose spikes ; rhachilla disarticu- 

 lating above the two lowest glumes. Glumes persistent, I and II empty ; 

 1-3 above them hermaphrodite, nut-bearing, winged on the keel ; upper- 

 most sterile or empty. Stamens 3 ; anthers oblong. Ovary ovoid ; style 

 short, persistent; stigmas 3, linear, lunger than the style. Fruit a 

 trigonous nut with acute apex, continuous with the style. — Distrib. 

 India, Africa, Madagascar ; species 2. 



1. Courtoisia cyperoides, iVee?, in Linncea, v. 9 (1835) p. 286. 

 Annual, glabrous, whole plant of a yellowish hue; root fibrous ; stems 

 3-16 in. long, csespitose, slender, trigonous, striate, leafy towards the 

 base. Leaves usually longer than the stems, hnear, acute, yg— ^ ^"^• 

 broad. Umbel simple or compound, with 3-10 rays 1-3 in. long; 

 secondary rays 3-5 up to 1 in. long, bearing dense globose yellowish-brown 

 spikes composed of many short spikelets ; bracts 3-7, leaf-like, 4-15 in. 

 long; secondary bracts often | in. long. Spikelets ^ in. long, many, in 

 globose heads i-| in. in diam. Glumes boat-shaped, flattened, the 

 fertile ones slightly mucronate, the keel with a continuous glistening 

 wing along its whole length ; sides not striate. Stamens 3 ; anthers 



