Pyereus.] CLXXII. CYPERACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 593 



9. P. fer rug-in eus, G. B. Clarice ; spikelets rather broader redder, 

 glumes more distant (otherwise as P. polystachyus, Yar. |3). Cyperus ferru- 

 ginous, Poir. in Lam. Encyc. vii. 261 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 11 ; Baker PL 

 Maurit. 408. C. polystachyus, Yars. ferruginea and macrostachya, Boeck. in 

 Linnsea, xxxv. 479, Yars. ferruginea, micans and filicina, C. B. Clarke in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 54, 55. C. strictus, JRottler ms. Heyne ms. (not of 



< Roxb.)Wall. Cat. 3331. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA; Rottler, (7. Thomson. CHITTAGONG; /. D. H. 

 DISTKIB. Afric. Americ. 



10. P. sulcinux, C. B. Clarke ; as P. polystachyus, var. P, but spike- 

 lets longer, glnmes more remote, nut unsymmetric its faces much com- 

 presed usually concave. Cyperus sulcinux, C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xxi. 56 and xxv. 80. 



BENGAL ; up to 5000 feet, alt. frequent. ANAMALLAY MTS. ; Beddome. PEGU ; 

 Kurz. TENASSERIM; Heifer (Kew Distrib. n. 6209, 4). DISTEIB. Afr. trop. 

 Malaya. 



Slender. Spikelets up to 40-50-fld. Narrow edge'ot nut much flattened against 

 the rhacheola. 



fft Robust, spikelets larger, yellow brown or red, leaves close to base of 

 stem. 



11. P. ang-ulatus, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283; robust, umbel simple, 

 spikelets yellow or brown-yellow (see also var. /3) spicate, nut small obo- 

 void ^-i length of glume. Cyperus unioloides, Br. Prod. 216 ; C. B. Clarke 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 60. C. bromoides, Willd. ms. ; Link Jahrb. iii. 85 ; 

 Kunth Enum. ii. 8 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 463. C. angulatus, Nees in 

 Wight Contrib. 73 ; Boeck. I.e. 465. Cyperus, Wall. Cat. n. 3324. 



NEPAL ; WalUch. DINA JPOBE ; C. . Clarice. KHASIA ; alt. 3-5000 feet, Hf. 

 fy T. T., &c. NILGHIEI HILLS ; Wight. AVA ; Wallich. DISTBIB. tropics. 



Glabrous. Rhizome long, T ^ in. in diam., or often 0. Roots fibrous. Stem 

 1^-3 ft. I/eaves often f length of stem, i in. broad. Umbel rays 3-8, up to 2-4 in. 

 long (in depauperated a single few-spikeleted head); bracts 4-5, np to 8-12 

 in., leaf-like. Spikes of 3-20 spikelets, sometimes slightly compound; bracteoles 

 inconspicuous. Spikelets f by in,, 22-fld. Glumes in., ovate, triangular-acute, 

 loosely imbricate in fruit, 1-3-nerved, back green, sides shining yellow brown, 

 margin crisped. Stamens 3 ; anthers oblong-linear. Nut compressed, black j style 

 small, branches linear shortly exsert. 



Var. /3 Wightii', umbel contracted into a subcompound head, spikelets larger 

 shining chestnut-brown. 



Deccan Peninsula; Wight. A remarkable plant, only once collected. The 

 spikelets are, in size and colour, unlike any Indian or other example of P. angulatus, 

 while they most closely resemble P. macranfhus, a Cape plant ; but the nuts have 

 the surface-cells subquadrate, while in P. macranthus these are longitudinally 

 oblong. 



12. P. puncticulatus, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283 ; umbel compound or 

 simple, spikelets red spicate, nut broad-ellipsoid truncate f length of 

 glume. P. Baccha, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283. Cyperus puncticulatus, 

 VaJil Enum. ii. 348 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 15 ; Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 283 ; Thw. Enum. 342 ; Boeck. in Linncea, xxxv. 472 (excl. syn. Roxb.) ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 68. C. Baccha, Kunth I. c. ] 15. C. 

 inundatus, Nees in Wight Contrib. 76 (not of Roxb.). C. procerus, Roxb. 



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