Pycreus.] CLXXII. CYPEEACE^I. (C. B. Clarke.) 591 



specimens from 10,000 ft., are 4-6 in. high with stem (and leaves) capillary, bearing 

 1 or 2 spikelets only, and may be a new species. 



ft Small or medium-sized, roots fibrous, leaves close to base of stem. 



5. P. nitens, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283, and in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. 

 Cur. xix., Suppl. i. 43 ; small or scarcely middle-sized, umbel simple or 

 reduced to 1 head, spikelets small clustered or shortly spicate linear or 

 linear-oblong straw-colrd. or dusky, glumes minutely mucronate or nearly 

 muticous, nut small obovoid. Cyperus pumilus, Linn. Sp. PI. 69 ; Gaertn. 

 Fruct. i. 9, t. 2, fig. 2 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 4 (in small part) ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind.i. 196 (exd. syn. Rottb.); Strachey Cat. PL Kumaon, -74; Clarke in 

 Journ. Innn. Soc. xxi. 43 (not of Rottb. or Nees). C. nitens, Vahl Enum. 

 ii. 331 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 3 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 483 (not of Retz.}. C. 

 membranaceus, Vahl. I. c. 330 ; Kunth I.e. 3. C. punctatus, Roxb. FL Ind. 

 i. 193 (excl. cit. Pluk.). C. pulvinatus, Nees & Meyen in Wight Contrib. 

 74; Thw. Enum. 342. C. obstinatus, Steud. Syn. PI. Gyp. 10; 0. tor-, 

 tuosus, Herb. Roxb. ; Wall. Cat. 3339. Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3312 (mainly}. 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-6000 ft., frequent; from the PUNJAB to ASSAM, 

 CEYLON, and SINGAPORE. DISTBIB. Warm regions of the Old World. 



Annual. Stems tufted, 1-12 in. Leaves often as long as stem, -^ in. wide, 

 weak. Umbel rays 1-6 in. up to 2-4 in. long, usually shorter. Spikelets 5-30 in 

 a spike, -|~| by T ^ in., 8-44-nd. ; rhachilla slender, persistent. Glumes boat- 

 shaped, 3-5-nerved, back green, sides pale nerveless, keel (in the Indian form) nearly 

 always excurrent recurved. Stamen in the Indian plant usually 1 (in large examples 

 sometimes 2). Nut compressed, brown, nut ^ as long as the glume. 



6. P. pumilus, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283 ; annual, umbel simple, spike- 

 lets spicate oblong 6-10-fld. much compressed, glumes on back 3-nerved 

 green, sid6s 2-3,-nerved pale, keel excurrent recurved, nut broad ellipsoid 

 flattened. Cyperus hyalinus, Vahl Enum. ii. 329; Kunth Enum. ii. 3; 

 Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 254 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 482 ; Clarke in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xxi. p. 46 ; Ridley, in Forbes East. Archip. 520. C. pumilus, 

 Nees in Wight Contrib. 74 (excl. all syn.} ; Kunth I. c. 4 (in great part, not 

 of Linn.} C. strictus, Wight ms. (not of Roxb.} ; Wall. ' Gat. 3336, C 

 'partly. 



MADRAS 5 in rice-fields, Wight, Leith. DISTRIB. Timor. 



Stems 2-8 in. Leaves as long as stem, i in. wide, weak. Umbel rays 3-7, up 

 to 2 in. long. Spikelets i-12 in a spikelet, not clustered, i by in. Glumes 

 almost glistening on their pale or yellowish nerved sides. Nut obtuse, ashy -black, 

 more than ^ length of glume. 



7. P. capillaris, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283 and in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. ii. pars. 1,9; umbel apparently \simple or condensed into 1 head, 

 (see var. y) spikelets clustered linear s many-nd. much compressed straw- 

 colrd., brown or. black, nu small ellipsoid compressed apiculate chest- 

 nut-black. "Cyperus globosus, All. FL Pedem. . Auctuar. 49; Reichb. Ic. 

 PL Crit:\\i. 6, t. 229, and Ic. FL Germ. viii. 32, ,,t. 379, fig. 665 ; BoecJc. 

 in Linnsea, xxxv. 458; Clarice in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 279 and xxi. 47. C. 

 flavidus, Decne. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 359 (not of Rttz.or Roxb.}. C. 

 capillaris, Koenig. ms. ; Roxb. PL Ind.i. 194; ifees :in Wight Contrib. 76; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 283. C; Xiamarckianus, Svhultes iii Roem. & Sch. 

 Syst. ii. Mant. 108 ; Kunfh Enum. ii. 9: C. vulgaris//S|e5er ms. ; Kunfh 

 I. c. 4. C. mucronatus, Moritzi Verz. Zoll. Pfl. 95 (not of Rottb.). C. flaves- 



