APPENDIX IF. 



1*. C. murale, L. 



Rather foetid, 6-18" high, branches decumbent. Leaves rather 

 shining bright green rhombic-ovate or deltoid-ovate acute, base 

 cuneate, upper narrower serrate. Spikes short densely panicled 

 •5-- 75" long. Sepals slightly keeled almost covering the utricle, 

 narrowly scarious. Seed sharply keeled, horizontal, dotted. 



Nathpur, Ham. ! FL, Fr. May. 



The Xathpur specimen has been identified with C. murale by Hooker and the 

 description is of true C. murale, in wliicli the flowers are said to be in lax or dense 

 axillary divaricate cymes, but those of the Nathpur specimen do not appear to 

 be more cvmose than in C. alburn. 



FAM. 138. CYPERACEiE. 



3. JUNCELLUS, Griseb. (p. 906). 



Spkts. in a single dense compound head ..... 1. pyfjmceus. 

 Spkts. in loose spikes in a compound umbel . . . .2. inundatu.^. 



2. J. inundatus, C. B. Clarke. 



Rather stout 1-3 ft. high with the stem 3-quetrous at the top. 

 Leaves often as long as the stem • 25-- 3" broad. Bracts 3-5 foliaceous, 

 8-18" long. Umbel compound, rays 3-6, very unequal. Spikelets 

 in open spikes 1-2" long. Glumes broad-ovate obtuse, 5-7-nerved. 

 Nut over half as long as the glume. 



Nathpur, Ham. ! Fl. Sept. 



5. MARISCUS, Vahl 

 Insert in Key (p. 908) :— 



Stolons slender: — 



Spkts. small 1-fld., broad-lanceolate recurved and 3-gonous in 



fruit .......... 1*. paniceus. 



Spkts. 2-fld., narrow-lanceolate and suberect in fruit . . 2. temiifolius. 



1*. M. paniceus, VaM., var. Roxburghiana, Clarice (in F.B.I.). Syn. 

 Cyperus umbellatus var. panicea, Clarke (in J own. Linn. Soc. xx). 



A slender glabrous sedge up to 2 ft. high with long slender stolons 

 clothed Avith lanceolate striate rich brown scales. Leaves often as 

 long as stem. L'mbel simple, bracts 5-7, leaf-like. Rays of umbel 

 up to 2" unequal. Spikes solitary cylindric dense ebracteate. Spkts. 

 •2" long, 1-fld. ; 2 lowest glumes empty, persistent, 3rd glume nut- 

 bearing, ovate, deciduous, its upper margins broad scarious, 4th 

 rudimentarj\ Fruiting spkt. broad-lanceolate, 3-gonous more or less 

 recurved. Nut oblong trigonous, black, two-thirds length of glume. 



Monghyr, Ham. Fl., Fr. Sept.-Oct. 



The description is after Clarke. 



10. SCIRPUS, L. 



Add to Key (p. 924) :— 



In the bracket opposite I. and after suinnus, ", clusters on rays of 

 a lateral umbel in corymbosus.'' 



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