JUNCELLUS. ] CYPERACE 2. 339 
8. P. pumilus, Zurrill, in Kew Bull. 1922, p. 124; 
pumilus. L. Amen. Acad, iv. (1788) 302, et Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 69 et herb. 
propr. Cyperus pulvinatus, Nees ef Meyon in Wight Contrib, 
(1834) 74; Pycreus pulvinatus, Nees in Linnea IX (1834) 283 ; 
Pycreus nitens, Nees, l. c. and C. B. Clarke in F. B. I. vi, 591. 
A small annual glabrous plant, 1-10 ins. high. Stems tufted often 
numerous, slender, bases covered with not fibrous, rather close- 
fitting often reddish sheaths. Leaves tapering to a fine acuminate 
apex, linear, variable in length, 7,-;'; in. broad, with a prominent 
midrib, Inflorescence an umbel of spikes, primary rays up to 3 ins. 
Jong but usually much shorter, ending in spikes of 3 to 30 spikelets ; 
primary bracts about 3, leaf-like, unequal, generally much over- 
topping the inflorescence and up to 44 in. long. Spikelets linear, 
compressed, 6 to 40 flowered, up to 4 in. long, about }, in. broad, 
rachilla not winged. Lowest glumes empty, smaller; flowering 
glumes ;’; to ;; in. broad, ovate in outline, keel herbaceous, well- 
marked, prolonged at the apex into a more or less prominent, slightly 
curved mucro, wings hyaline without nerves. Stamen generally 1. 
Nut #5 in. long, obovoid or ellipsoid, laterally compressed, brown ; 
style slightly longer than the nut, divided into 2 arms to just below 
the middle. 
Moradabad (Thomson); Dehra Dun (Gamble, Duthie); Saharanpur 
(Parker); Shahjahanpur (Duthie) ; Shikohabad (Duthie) ; Haldwani 
(Parker). 
3. JUNCELLUS, C. B. Clarke; FI. Brit. Ind. vi, 594. 
Perennial erect herbs, tufted or with horizontally running 
rhizomes. Stems erect, simple and leafy below. The inflore- 
scence is very varied and consists of usually many (sometimes 
reduced to 1) spikelets arranged in compact terminal or unilateral 
heads or more or less in compound umbellate manner or sometimes 
the primary and secondary branches are in umbels and the spike- 
lets themselves in spikes. The spikelets are each composed of 
humerous glumes arranged in 2 ranks on the rachis. The lowest 
2 glumes are usually empty and often different in shape and size 
and from the upper (flowering) ones. Each flower consists of 
2 or 3 stamens and an ovary surrounded by a bifid or nearly entire 
style. The nut compressed back to front in relation to the axis, 
the adaxial] side being flat, the abaxial more or less convex. 
