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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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37. Cyperus Stoloniferus. Culm naked, three-cornered ; 

 umbel compound, involucrecl ; spikelets lanceolate. Root 

 bulbous ; leaves narrow, linear, complicate, a hand or half a 

 foot in length ; culm a span in height ; involucre one or two- 

 leaved, the longer an inch and half in length, the shorter 

 half an inch long : besides these there is another leaf or two 

 still shorter ; they are all subulate and striated. Native of 

 Tranquebar in the East Indies. 



3S. Cyperus Pangorei. Culm three-cornered, leafy at the 

 base ; involucre three-leaved ; universal umbel decom- 

 pound ; partial ones subtritid. Culm two feet and a half 

 high. Native of Tranquebar. 



39. Cyperus Cinnamomeus. Culm three-cornered ; leafy; 

 umbel consisting of spikelets in a head, peduncled, and ses- 

 sile; involucre five-leaved, serrulate-scabrous. Root annual; 

 culms three feet high, solitary, leafy at the base, naked 

 above ; leaves longer than the culm, nearly half an inch 

 broad, plaited, with an unarmed keel ; heads ovate, compound, 

 cinnamon-coloured. Native place unknown. 



40. Cyperus Setaceus. Culm setaceous, striated, angular, 

 naked ; spike terminating, with about four flowers, and naked. 

 Culms in bunches, three or four inches long, very slender ; 

 leaves none; glume purplish; style trifid; seed whitish, tur- 

 binate, somewhat wrinkled ; the angles rise above the seed 

 with a truncated dagger point. Frequently found in the 

 neighbourhood of Calcutta. 



41. Cyperus Compactus. Culm round, leafy; umbel de- 

 compound ; involucre five-leaved; spikelets heaped, subspiral. 

 Culm two feet or more in height; leaves nearly as long as the 

 culm, linear, with purplish sheaths, the edge and keel un- 

 armed, striated ; the longest leaf of the involucre a foot and 

 half in length, the shortest three inches, all scabrous about 

 the edge ; umbellules three or five rayed. Native of China. 



42. Cyperus Mucronatus. Culm round, naked ; spikes 

 lateral, sessile ; involucre one-leafed. Culms a foot high, with 

 brown truncate sheaths at the base ; one or two root-leaves 

 short and narrow ; head composed of a few sessile spikes, 

 placed an inch and half from the end of the culm ; involucre 

 scarcely longer than the spikes ; scales ovate, acute, convex, 

 whitish. Native of Visagapatnam in the East Indies. 



43. Cyperus Diphyllus. Culm subtriangular, two-leaved ; 

 umbel superdecompound ; spikelets roundish, subpinnate. 

 Culm six feet high; umbel terminating, four inches long ; in- 

 volucre of many short acute leaves ; peduncles compressed ; 

 a lanceolate whitish involucel under each partial peduncle ; 

 spikelets acute, pale, having about twelve flowers ; scales im- 

 bricate, ovate, acute, striated. Native of the East Indies. 



1-1. Cyperus Leucocephalus. Culm setaceous, three-cor- 

 nered, naked ; head sessile ; involucre four-leaved, or there- 

 abouts, spreading very much ; flowers one-stamined. Root 

 bulbous, oblong ; culms six inches high ; leaves even, half 

 the length of the culm; head small, snow-white; spikes 

 eight to twelve, sessile, broad, ovate ; scales linear, com- 

 pressed, the lowest long, the upper ones gradually shorter, 

 obtuse, striated ; stigmas three, villose ; seed long, linear, 

 black. Native of the East Indies. 



45. Cyperus Exaltatus. Culm three-cornered, one-leafed 

 at the base; umbel superdecompound, many-leaved; spike- 

 let!, linear, peduncled. Culm five feet high, striated ; root- 

 leaf nearly three feet long, flat, striated, rough about the 

 edge ; umbel more than a foot high, fastigiate ; involucre 

 many-leaved, the longest leaf two feet in length, the others 

 decreasing to an inch, all rough about the edge ; umbellules 

 many- rayed, the rays unequally divided and compounded ; 

 involucels unequal in number, short, filiform ; spikelets corn- 

 pressed, ferruginous on the sides, having twenty flowers in 

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them ; there are two minute scales at the base of the pedi- 

 cels ; scales compressed, acute, keeled ; seed white. Native 

 of Tranquebar in the East Indies. 



46. Cyperus Niveus. Culm three-cornered, filiform, naked; 

 umbel terminating, sessile, two-leaved ; spikes compressed, 

 lanceolate. Culms a foot and a half in height, striated ; root- 

 leaves few, short, narrow; sheath entire, with a short obtuse 

 ligule opposite to the leaf ; umbel composed of snow-white 

 spikes, usually sessile; involucre reflex, longer than the 

 head ; spikes half an inch in length, with thirty flowers in 

 some ; glumes compressed, keeled, striated ; seed black, like 

 Buck-wheat. Native of the East Indies. 



47. Cyperus Imbricatus. Culm three-cornered, naked ; 

 umbel decompound ; rays of the umbellules imbricate; invo- 

 lucre six-leaved, with three leaves very long, and three very 

 short. Umbel unequal, four inches long, some of the umbel- 

 lules sessile, others on peduncles of three inches and a half 

 in length ; no involucels ; spikelets convex on both sides, 

 compressed longitudinally in the middle, lanceolate, scarcely 

 two inches long, having from twelve to twenty flowers, yel- 

 lowish brown and pedicelled ; scales imbricate, broad, ovate, 

 acute, with membranaceous edges. Native of Tranquebar. 



48. Cyperus Cruentus. Culm three-cornered, and one- 

 leafed at the base ; umbel terminating, two-leaved, very sim- 

 ple. Culm four or five inches high, filiform ; leaf linear, 

 shorter than the culm ; spikelets from two to ten, lanceolate, 

 sanguineous, brown, two to three lines long ; involucre two- 

 leaved, four times as long as the umbel. Native of Tran- 

 quebar. 



49. Cyperus Nitens. Culms three-cornered, leafy at the 

 base; umbels almost simple; involucre three-leaved; flowers 

 one-stamined. Culms many, an inch or two in height ; leaves 

 two to four, linear, longer than the culm ; umbel glomerate, 

 some of the spikes simple, others forming an almost sessile 

 umbellule ; the longest leaf of the involucre an inch and half 

 in length, the others gradually shorter ; spikelets linear, nar- 

 row, shining, whitish, but longitudinally brown in the middle, 

 with the scales diverging at top, and from ten to fourteen 

 flowers ; scales ovate, compressed, keeled, striated, hyalinous, 

 with a green keel, obtuse, with an acumen ; stamina one ; 

 seed ash-coloured. Native of Tranquebar. 



50. Cyperus Flavidus. Culm three-cornered, striated ; 

 umbel compound, three-leaved ; spikes lanceolate ; flowers 

 one-stamined. Culms half a foot in height, one leafed ; root 

 leaves in bunches, short, narrow; some spikes of the umbel 

 sessile, others in umbellules ; involucre erect, three or four 

 times as long as the umbel, linear ; about twenty-six flowers 

 in the spikes ; scales scariose, purplish on both sides, sepa- 

 rate, narrow. Native of Tranquebar. 



51. Cyperus Venustus : 59. Cyperus Stuppeus : 53. Cyperit.t 

 Linctus. Native of the Society Islands. 



Cypress, Summer. See Chenopodium Scoparia. 



Cypripedium ; a genus of the class Gynandria, order Dian- 

 dria. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : spathes vague ; spa- 

 dix simple ; perianth none. Corolla : petals four or five, 

 lanceolate-linear, very long, spreading, erect ; nectary within 

 the lowerpetal, slipper-form, inflated, obtuse, hollow, shorter 

 than the petals, broader; upper lip ovate, flat, inflex, small. 

 Stamina : filamenta two, very short, seated on the pistil ; 

 anthera; erect, covered by the upper lip of the nectary. 

 Pistil: germen long, twisted, inferior; style very short, 

 growing to the upper lip of the nectary; stigma obscure. 

 Pericarp : capsule obovate, obtusely three-cornered, with 

 three sutures, under which it gapes in the corners, three- 

 valved, one-celled. Seeds; numerous, very small; receptacle 

 linear, growing lengthwise to each valve of the pericarp. 



