Cyperus. CYPERACiEE 371 



Santonici Rottb. Descr. 4!, tab. 9, fig i, — C. panicoides Lam. III. 

 I, 145. 



Hab. copiose in oryzetis vallis Ghyrsan Persise occidentalis prope Susan 

 et Bors et ia toto districtu Dinarun dicto (Haussk I). 

 Ar. Geogr. India, China, Senegalia, America borealis. 



48. C. eleusinoides (Kiinth Eniim. II, p. 39) perennis, radice 

 fibrosa, culmis crassis valde elatis acute triquetris inferne foliosis, 

 foliis longe vaginatis late linearibus planis rigidis superne scabris, 

 urabellae compositae contracta? radiis 7-8 inaequalibus erectis spicas 

 fasciculatas gerenlibus, involucri generalis phyllis umbellam longe 

 superantibus partialis phyllis spicas non «•equantibus, spiculis dense 

 et stricte spicatis anguste linearibijs 10-15-floris, glumis laxe imbri- 

 catis carinato-navicularibus oblongo-ellipticis fuscis anguste albo- 

 marginatis utrinque S-4-nerviis acutis mucronatis, rachide non alata, 

 staminibus tribus, styio trifido, nucula obovoto-oblonga triquetra 

 mucronata gluma tertia parte breviore ^. C. xanthopus Steud. — C. 

 infraapicalis Nees. 



Hab. in humidis, Affghania (Griff. ex Aitch. Gat. p, 155). 



Planta 2-3-pedalis, insignis umbellis contractis et spiculis angustissimis 

 in spicas elongatas fasciculatas, strictas dispositis. 



Ar. Geogr. India, Africa ti-opica, Nova Hollandia. 



19. G. glaber (L. Mant. Alt. p. 179) annuus, radice fibrosa, cul- 

 mis triangulari-subcompressis inferne foliosis, foliis planis culmo 

 brevioribus, umbella^ ssepe subcompositse radiis 4-8 centrali ssepius 

 brevissimo, involucri phyllis inaequalibus majorlbus perlongis, spiculis 

 ad radiorum apicem in capitulum ovatum vel globosum interdum com- 

 positum confertis lineari-lanceolatis compressis subsessilibus, glu- 

 mis ovato-oblongis carina virentibus lateribus trinerviis purpuras- 

 centibus albo-marginatis obtusis carina excurrente mucronulatis, 

 rachide non alata, staminibus tribus, stylo trifido, nucula nigra obo- 

 vata triquetra laeviuscnla gluma duplj breviore O. Rchb. Germ. fig. 

 669. — C. patulus Kit. in Host Gram. III, tab. 74. — C. pictus Ten. 

 Nap. III, p. 47. 



Hab. in paludosis et oryzetis, Graecia ad Athenas (Heldr!), Bithynia 

 (Sibth.), Lydia ad Smyrnam (Boiss!), Gilicia (Heldr !), Syria littoralis (Bi ! 

 Gaill !) et borealis ad Marasch (Haussk!), Gyprus ad Paphos (Ky!), Pales- 

 tina ad piscinas prope Bethlehem (Kersten I), Tauria (Ledeb !), Armenia 

 Rossica (Szov I), Iberia (Rehm !), Persia in prov. Susiana (Haussk I). 



/3 Blancheanus. Glumae pallidiores carina excurrente in aristulam 

 erecto-subrecurvam abeuntes. — G. Biancheanus Desvaux Mss. 



Hab. in paludosis Syrise prope Beirut (Blanche !). 



Ar. Geogr. Italia, Sicilia, Dalmatia, Serbia, regio Danubialis, Africa tro- 

 pica. 



20. C Noeanus, annuus? radice fibrosa, culmo triquetro ima 

 basi tantum et crebre foliato, foliis late linearibus patulis brevibus, 



