344 CYPERACEZ. [ CoURTOISIA. 
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Dehra Dun (Gamble), Saharanpur (Jameson), Moradabad (Thomson), 
Haldwani (Parker). Distris.: Throughout India and Ceylon and 
in most tropical or subtropical regions. 
8. Kyllinga monocephala, Rotib. Descr. et Ic. 13, t. 4, fig. 43 
F. B. I. vi, 588 ; Prain, Beng. Pl. 1135 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ii, 876 ; 
C. B. Clarke Ill. Cyp. t. II, fig. 1-2. 
An erect glabrous plant (except the glume keels), with well-developed 
rhizomes either long and slender or shorter and stouter and covered 
with brown, persistent, not fibrous, scale leaves. Stems up to 12 ins. 
high, slender, covered with leaves only at the base; leaf-sheaths 
pale brown not fibrous. Leaves linear, ~; to} in. in breadth and often 
as long as the stem, acuminate, rough on the midrib and margins. 
Bracts 3 to 4, unequal, up to 10 ins. long, similar to the leaves. 
Spikes subglobose, about + in. in diameter, solitary. Spikelets ob- 
liquely lanceolate-eiliptic, 4 in. long, containing one flower. The 
lowest glume hyaline with 3 to 5 nerves on each side of the midrib, 
about =, in. long. The second glume similar but narrower and 
more acute. The third glume boat-shaped, acuminate, with 3 well- 
marked nerves on each side of the prominently winged keel which 
is slightly serrated. Fourth glume slightly narrower and more 
elongated and with a less prominent wing to the keel. Stamens 2-3. 
Nut obovate, very much compressed + in. long and 54 in. broad ; 
style flattened and relatively broad with short arms. 
Dehra Dun (Duthie), Saharanpur, (Royle), Gonda, Haldwani (Parker), 
Bahraich (Duthie). Distriz.: Throughout India and Ceylon and 
widely spread in the warm and temperate regions of the Old World, 
except the Mediterranean. 
5. COURTOISIA, Nees. FI. Brit. Ind, vi, 625. 
Herbs with erect simple stems and grass-like leaves. Spikelets 
compressed in globose spikes, rachilla disarticulating above the 
two lowest glumes. Glumes the two lowest usually empty, 1-3 
following bisexual, winged on the keel, the uppermost sterile. 
Stamens 3, anthers oblong. Style short persistent, stigmas 3, 
long. Nut trigonous, apex acute, continuous with the styge. 
Species 2, India, Africa and Madagascar. 
C. cyperoides, Nees, in Linnea (1835) 286; F. B. I. vi, 625 ; 
Prain, Beng. Pl. 1147 ; Cooke, Fl. Bomb. uu, 877. 
Annual, glabrous, tufted, roots fibrous. Stems 2 in. to 2 ft. high, 
triquetrous, glabrous. Leaves ;,-} in. broad, usually longer than 
