Cyperus. | CYPERACEH (Clarke). 179 
Camperdown, Rehmann. 7752! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 
116! 117! ; 
Found in all tropical and warm-temperate regions. 
30. C. compressus isis Sp. Plant. ed. ii. 68); annual, glabrous, 
green; stems 4-16 in. long, trigonous at the top, smoot ; leaves 
about as ne as the ee 4-1 in. broad, grass-like ; umbel simple, 
3-10 in. in diam., or sometimes of 1 head; bracts 3-4, oe 
the umbel, atnilar to the leaves ; spikelets 3-10, io gf 
much ae 3-t by 2-1 in, ae be wered, or gr en 
many-nerved ; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, not crested; nut 
x the length of the glume, broadly obovoid, triquetrous with concave 
faces; ; style shorter than the nut, branches 3 Hees, shortly exserted 
rom the glume. Kunth, Enum. ii. 23; Boeck. n Linnea, xxxv. 517; 
C B. Clarke in Journ Linn. Soc. xxi. 97, and in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
chi vi. 605 7 oi } C. caffer, G. Bertol. in Rendiconts 
Recion: Kaftraria, Schultz! Natal; Coast-land, Sutherland! 
Seas Riv er, below 200 ft., Drége, 4396! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 
704! Kuntz ze, 228! Delagoa Bay, Kuntze, 218! 
Found in all tropical and warm-temperate regions. 
31. C. aristatus (Rottb. Rie et. Ic, 23, t. 6, fig. 1); annual, 
glabrous ; stems tufted, 1-6 in. long, trigonous oy the top, smooth ; 
leaves about as long as the stem, 'y—7'5 in. broad ; umbel simple or 
reduced tol head, up to s in, in diam. ; bracts 3-5, jeabibtet the 
sy boutedavesdiaie 7_-9-ribbed over aes ease entire 
» keel green produced as a recurved bristle ; stamen 1; anther 
oblong, not crested ; nut 2as long as the glume (bristle included), 
trigonous, narrow-obovo id, dull brown ; style shorter than the nut, 
branches 3 linear, shortly exserted from the glume. Kunth, Enum. 
U. 23; Steud. in Flora , 1842, 585; Boeck. in Linnwa, xxxv. 500; 
C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc, xxi, 91, and in shes sk FI. Brit. 
Ind. yi. ‘a Acad. 308; 5, 
- C. squarrosus, Linn. Amo en. Ac ‘ste 
Rais ed. ii. 66 partly. Shia hee intricatus, Linn. Mant. "182 5 Thunb. 
rod. 18 ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schul 
=. Arata: Fl 817! 
Py La ee mi his, Pb grate ween Porter and Trigards 
Ponte, ie 6647! and without precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 
Found in all tropical and warm-temperate regions. 
frei 2. C, uaitatns (Burchell, Trav. $. Afr. i. 417 in note) ; glabrous; 
lons 3, in, diam.; arising from the stem-base, elongate, clothed 
Y pale Hapa ged in. long, producing bulbs at their extremities, 
N 2 
