KyllingaJ] CLXXII. CYPEBACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 589 



upper half of keel with a lunate crested glandular wing, nut yellow-brown. 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 180; Nees in Wight Contrib. 91 (partly) ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Sat. iii. 291 ; Thw. Enum. 345 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 427. K. triceps, 

 Linn.f. Suppl. 104 (partly, not of Rottb.). K. sororia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 293 (partly, not ofKunth). K. gracilis, Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 63 

 (not of KuntJi). K. mindorensis, Steud. Syn. PL Gyp. 67. Scirpus Cepha- 

 lotes, Jacq. Sort. Vind. t. 97. Kyllingia, Wall. Cat. 3443 A, F (partly), H 

 (partly). 



Throughout INDIA, common ; from Kumaon to Assam, CEYLON and SINGAPOEE. 

 DISTHIB. Hot and warm temp, regions of the Old World except the Medi- 

 terranean. 



Closely resembles K. Irevtfolia except in the crest (usually straw-colrd. with 

 scattered red circular resinous glands) on the upper part of keel of nut-bearing 

 glume. 



6. K. squamulata, Vahl Enum. ii. 381; nearly glabrous, roots 

 fibrous, spikes 1-3 ovoid, fl. glume scarcely acute its keel winged by a 

 broad hyaline incise- toothed crest, nut brown. Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 431. 

 K. Metzii, Steud. Syn. PI. Gyp. 70. K. monocephala, Strachey Herb. 

 Kumaon, 74 (not ofEottb.). 



Western India ; KASHMIR, Thomson. GURWHAL, up to 5500ft., Duthie. MT. 

 ABOO, King. CAN ABA, Metz. DISTRIB. Trop. Africa. 



Stems tufted (annual), 2-12 in. Leaves often longer than stem, f- in. broad. 

 Head in. in diam., green or brown. Spikelets | in. long, maturing 1 nut only. 



2. PYCREUS, Beauv. 



Characters of 4 Cyperus but nut compressed laterally, and style 

 branches 2. Species 50, all warm and temp, regions. 



* Outer superficial cells of nut (at least on its shoulders) longitudinally 

 oblong or elliptic; nut often appearing transversely lineolate or imper- 

 fectly zpnate (by reason of the narrow ends of the cells running into an 

 undulating line). 



1. P. flavescens, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283 ; annual, slender, umbel 

 simple or reduced to 1 head, bracts spreading, spikelets linear -^ in. wide 

 yellow or pale, nut obovoid compressed shining black hardly half as long 

 as the glume. Cyperus flavescens, Linn. Sp. PL 68 (not of Linn. Herb.) ; 

 Kunili Enum. ii. 5; Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 31, t. 278, figs. 662-664; 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 438, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 104 ; Clarke, 

 I. c. xxi. 36 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 364 (excl. Cabul sp.). 



PUNJAB ; Kurrum Yalley, Aitchison, n. 964. DISTBIB. N. temp, regions. 



Stems 1-12 in. Leaves often f length of stem, "^ in. wide, grass-like. Spikelets 

 clustered or very shortly spicate, spreading in fruit. Nut obtuse, with transverse 

 white lines ; black cells of surface longitudinally oblong. 



2. P. stramineus, C. B. Clarke-, umbels reduced to 1 compound 

 head of 5-12 straw-colrd. spikelets, bracts and spikelets (even in fruit) 

 suberect (otherwise nearly as P '. flavescens). Cyperus stramineus, Nees in 

 Wight Contrib. 74 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 9 ; Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xxi. 39. C. capillaris, Sochst. ms. ; Steud. Syn. PL Gyp. 4 (not ofKcenig.). 

 C. coromandelinus, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 480 (not of Spreng.). C. fili- 

 formis, Heyne ; Wall. Cat. 3320 (partly}. 



