JUNCELLUS. |]  CYPERACEZ. 341 
Saharanpur (Royle), Moradabad (Thomson), Ajmer (Lowrie), Bundel- 
khand (Duthie). Distars.: Most of India, Ceylon, Africa and 
Tropical Australia. 
2. J. levigatus, C. B. Ol. in F. B. I. vi, 596. Cyperus lavi- 
gatus, L., Mant. 179; Cooke, Fl. Bomb, ii, 860. 
An erect-growing, glabrous plant up to 16 ins. high. Rhizome some- 
times short when the plant has a cespitose habit, sometimes horizon- 
tally extended and then covered with dark-brown sheathing, entire 
cataphylls. Stems usually arising 2-4 together from the rhizome, - 
' covered at the base with entirely closed leaf-sheaths which have 
truncate mouths and often undeveloped or only slightly developed 
blades, when these are present they are of various lengths and usually 
stiff and triangular or subcylindrical, acute or sub-acute. Spikelets 
up to 12 in a compact, one sided head, sometimes solitary, in our 
specimens up to nearly $ in. long, often much shorter, about ;4 in, 
broad, pale-straw coloured; bracts 2, with broad open sheathing 
bases, one about $ in. long with a slightly developed blade, the other 
up to 1} ins. long. Glumes broadly ovate with a rounded keel, 
acute, about 7, in. long and y; in. broad. Stamens 3, anthers with 
an apiculus. Style 7; in. long, simple or slightly bifid at apex. Nut 
broadly ellipsoid in outline, flattened on the adaxial side, convex on 
the abaxial, 3, in. long, brown, smooth. 
Saharanpur (Royle, 5, 59), Meerut (Thomson), Moradabad (Thomson), 
Gwalior (Maries), Merwara (Duthie), Bundelkhand (Duthie). 
Distris.: Throughout Western India and in most warm regions. 
8. J. pygmeeus, C. B. Cl. in F. B. I. vi, 596; Prain Beng. 
Pl, 1138. Cyperus pygmeus, Rotth. Descrip. et Icon. p. 20, t. 14, 
f. 5 (1773); Cooke, Fl. Bomb. ti, 859. 
An erect annual plant with numerous stems close together in tufts 
up to 8 ins. high, but usually shorter. Each stem-base is covered 
by entire broad sheathing often reddish leaf-bases. Leaf-sheaths 
loose-fitting with oblique mouths, blades narrowly linear, acuminate, 
up to 44 ins. long, py in. broad. Inflorescence a dense solitary ter- 
minal head } to } in. in diameter and composed of numerous spike- 
lets surrounded by 3 to 5 long unequal bracts which are leaf-like 
but broader towards the base, more reduced very narrow bracts 
frequently arise from among the spikelets. Each spikelet about 
¢ in. long of about 18 glumes arranged in two ranks. Glumes 4’, in. 
long, narrowly boat-shaped with rounded keels, acute or with a 
E 
