326 CYPERACEA. . [| CyPERUs. 
Dehra Dun (Duthie) ; Bundelkhand (Duthie) ; Moradabad (Thomson) ; 
Merwara (Duthie) ; Ajmer (Lowrie); Gwalior (Maries); Shahjahan- 
pur (Duthie); Saharanpur. Disrris. Throughout India and the 
warmer parts of the E. Hemisphere. 
8. Cyperus flavidus, Reiz. Obs. Fasc. v. (1789) 13; F. B. I, 
vi, 600; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1142 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ti, 862, 
An erect annual glabrous plant. Roots fibrous, tufted. Stem bases 
covered with close-fitting not fibrous pale-brown sheaths. Stems 
tufted, longitudinally striated, 6 to 8 ins. high. Leaves linear, acute, 
often longer than the stems, about ;4 in. broad or broader. Jn/flores- 
cence a twice compound umbel; primary rays up to 33 ins. long; 
primary bracts leaf-like but often broader, generally much over- 
topping the inflorescence and up to 7 ins. long. Spikelets linear, up 
to 4 in. long but usually shorter, 3; in. broad. The two lowest 
glumes smaller and empty ; flowering glumes oblong-ovate, rounded 
at the apex, =; in. long and slightly less broad, with a green obscurely 
nerved back and broad hyaline margins. Stamens 1 or 2. Nut 
ovoid-globose, white, about =; in. long, trigonous, shortly stipitate, 
style with its three branches 4 in. long, divided about half-way 
down. 
Moradabad (Thomson); Bundelkhand (Duthie); Abundant in rice 
fields throughout India and generally distributed in the warmer 
regions of the Old World. 
4, G. amabilis, Vahl. Enum. tt (1806) p. 318; F. B. I. vi, 598; 
Prain, Beng. Pl. 1141. 
Annual, slender, tufted, stems 2-10 in. high, striate. Leaves all arising 
from near the base, one half the length of the stem or less, =, in. 
broad with narrow filiform curved tips, sheaths dark brown or pur- 
plish, the older fibrous. Inflorescence usually a large compound 
umbel, rarely reduced to a single head, rays up to 4 in. long, primary 
bracts about 4, the longest as long as the rays, leaf-like. Spikelets 
2.2 in, long 4-75 in. broad in clusters of 3-10, each about 30 flowered, 
rachilla not winged. Glumes closely imbricate in flower, laxer and 
spreading in fruit, ;% in. long, narrowly boat-shaped, keel 3-nerved, 
excurrent as a very small mucro, sides thin smooth golden-brown 
or chestnut. Stamen 1. Nut 3, in. long, ellipsoid or obovoid, 
triquetrous, brown, style scarcely longer than the nut, branches 
short. 
Moradabad (Thomson) fide Clarke. DisrriB’: Tehri-Garhwal (Gamble); 
Kumaon (Davidson), most tropical countries. 
