Cypet'us. CYPERA.GE.«: 375 



interdum contracta, involucri phyllis numerosis late lanceolatis 

 iimbella muito brevioribiis, radiis effusis longissimis inferne vagina 

 long^ tubiilosa apice truncata auctis apice 1-3 spicas ovatas vel 

 oblongas pedunculatas vel subsessiles ferentibus, involucelli phyllis 

 subternis [iliformibus spicas longe superantibus, spiculis secus spicas 

 subcomposilas angusle linearibus teretiusculis multifloris patentibus, 

 glumis oblongis obtusis prseter carinam virentem pallide ferrugineis, 

 rachide alata, stylo trifido, nucula oblonga triquetra glumis dimidio 

 breviore %. Papyrus anfiquorum Willd. Bruce It. tab. 1. — C. 

 Syriacus Parl. Mem. p. 30, tab. 1. 



Hab in paludibus Palestiuae borealis ad lacus Tiberiadis et Meroni ! (Le- 

 tourneux !), iu Syria littorali ad Munkalid prope JalTa (Michon) et ad fluviuui 

 Nahr el Aoudja (Letourn !), Olim in Egypto ubi destructus nunc esse videtur. 



Gulnii 8-10-pedales, 60-80 radii G-9 pollices longi, spicul» 5-6 lineas longjB . 

 Notae quibus cl. Parlatore plantam ex Siciliaet Syri4 a planta Afric» tropica^ 

 distinguit non tirnias esseclari Oliver, Dyer, Ascherson, etc , demonstraverunt. 



Ar. Geogr. Sicilia (ubi forsan olim introductus), Nubia, Abyssinia, Afilca 

 tropica australis. 



29. G. longus (L. Sp. 67) rhizomate repente, culmis elatis tri- 

 quetris inferne foliosis, foliis linearibus laliusculis scabris longis vel 

 culmo sfepius brevioribus, umbellje supradecompositae radiis nume- 

 rosis longioribus apice iterum nmbellatim ramulosis ramulis strictis 

 umbellulam centralem sessilem superantibus, involucri generalis 

 phyllis anthelam superantibus, spiculis multifloris linearibus aculis 

 compressis ad ramulos inflorescentiae breviter subspicato-fascicu- 

 Jatis, glumis ovatis obtusis praeter carinam viridem 3-5-nerviani fus- 

 cis anguste albo-marginatis, rachide alata, stigmatibus tribus, nuculis 

 obovato-oblongis triquetris gluma triplo brevioribus %. Ic. Host 

 tab. 75. — Rchb. Germ. fig. 670. 



Hab. in fossis totius fere regiouis, Graecia (Smith Prod.), Bceotia (Heldr !), 

 Macedonia et Thracia (Griseb! .Jankal), Cataonia (Haussk!), Armenia Kur- 

 dica (Ky. 593!), Rhodus (Bourg !), Libanus (Gaill! Schweinf !), Tauria, Gau- 

 casus et Transcaucasia (Ledeb.), Persia occidentalis in Elymaitide (Hausskl), 

 Mesopotamia (Haussk I) . 



(S pallidus. — Giumse pallidiores latius albo-marginatoe. 



Hab. in Thracia (Friv!). Mesopotamia ad Derbend i Basian (Haussk !), 

 prov. Khorassan Persi* ad Ghanlug (Bge I), Atfghania (Griff!), Eamdem 

 formam e Serbia a cl. Pancic missam habeo. 



y Ueldreichianus. — Spiculse abbreviatse oblonga3 vel oblongo- 

 lineares 6-8-florfe ad anthelae ramulos elongatos subcapitatte. — C 

 Heldreichianus Boiss. Diagn. Ser I, XIII, p. 39. 



Hab. in Ttiraciae peninsulA Athoil (Jankal), Gilicia in faucil)us montis 

 Bulghurdagh (Heldr!), monte Amano Syrite bor. (Ky. 7't!), Gypro (Sint!) Pa- 

 lestina ad lacum Tiberiadis (Ball!), Specimina e GeorgiA Gaucasica Hohen. 

 exs sub C. patulo nexum inter hauc varietatem et pnecedentem pnebent. 



Ar. Geogr. EuiOfta media et australis ab Anglid, Gallia et Germania aus' 

 •Irali ad regionem Danubialem et Rossiam australem, Africa borealis. 



