CyPervs.] CYPERACE 2. 335 
at the base. Spik up to § in. long, ; in. broad, up to 30 
flowered; the floweririg glumes are produced laterally beyond their 
central point of insertion as 2 well marked, deciduous, reddish brown 
subhyaline wings. Glumes oblong-ellipsoid obtuse, } in. long, 
= in. broad, keel rounded,~green with 3 to 5 nerves, sides chestnut 
brown without nerves and with narrow scarious margins. Stamens 
3; anthers linear up to 3, in. long often shorter, slightly crested. 
Nut oblong-ellipsoid # in. long, trigonous ; style with its 3 branches 
$ in. long divided low down. 
Bundelkhand (Duthie No. 6488, 6488a, 6487, 7050); Jhansi (Duthie) ; 
Gwalior (Maries); Haldwani (Parker). Throughout India, Burma 
and Ceylon. 
19. C. distans, L. f. Suppl. 103; F. B. I. vi, 607 ; Prain, Beng. 
Pl, 1143 ; Collett, Fl, Siml. 557. 
An erect glabrous plant averaging 2 ft. in height with a usually short 
and horizontal rhizome and stolons with dark brown elliptic acute 
imbricating scales. Stem bases covered with pale brown persistant 
leaf-sheaths which have the truncate or slightly oblique mouths 
closed. Leaves varying considerably in length and breadth and 
texture according to habitat, usually shorter than the flowering 
stem and from ,; to } in. broad, the midrib prominent on the lower 
surface and two lateral veins on the upper. The inflorescence usually 
large, much branched, and up to 13 ins. in diameter but frequently 
more reduced; the primary and secondary rays are arranged in an 
umbellate manner and are of unequal lengths in the same inflores- 
cence, the primary being up to 8 ins. long; the spikelets arranged in 
a loose spicate manner on the ultimate branches; primary and 
secondary bracts leaf-like, unequal, about 6, the primary often much 
longer than the inflorescence and correspondingly broad. Spikelets 
"$ to 1 in. long, 7, in. broad, spreading nearly at right angles when 
mature, glumes scarcely overlapping, rachis slender glabrous with 
hyaline wings on the sides of the internodes opposite the glumes. 
Glumes broadly elliptic in outline when spread open rounded at the 
apex ;; in. long, 7, in. in breadth, red in colour, keel rounded with 
3 nerves. Stamens 3. Nut narrowly ellipsoid trigonous, gs, in. long, 
dark brown to black ; style with branches ¥; in. long, the undivided 
part short. . 
Moradabad (Duthie); Dehra Dun (Duthie); Saharanpur (Royle) ; 
Merwara; Haldwani (Parker). Distrrs.; Throughout most of India 
and the warmer parts of the world. 
