•Cyperus?\ Cyperacece. 3 7 



Perennial ; rootstock stout, woody, creeping, stolons o ; 

 root-fibres stout; stem 1-4 ft, as thick as the thumb at the 

 bases, above trigonous, angles smooth; 1. longer or shorter 

 than the stem, -|-§ in. broad, flat, coriaceous, veins faint, 

 margins and keel scaberulous; umbel very large, broad, up to 

 S in. diam., subsimple, rays 4-10, up to 2-6 in., long, trigonous, 

 terminated by stellately spreading sessile cylindric spikes of 

 unequal length, loosely set all round with innumerable 

 spreading yellow -brown spikelets; bracts 3-6, leaf- like, 

 longest a foot long, bracteoles very slender; spikes i-i-J in., 

 by -3— |- in. diam., sessile or a few pedicelled ; spikelets 

 spirally inserted round the slender angular rhachis, T(T"i 

 by aV m - diameter, terete, acute, 12-20-fld., spreading 

 horizontally, wings of rhachilla lanceolate, acuminate ; glumes 

 minute, £g in., broadly oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, tip rounded, 

 cuspidate, dorsally rounded, 3-veined, sides hyaline, centre 

 chestnut, brown ; stam. 3, anth. linear-oblong, scarcely crested ; 

 nut I as long as the glume, small or obovoid, ovoid-oblong or 

 trigonous, acute at both ends, straight or curved, grey, opaque, 

 style half as long as the nut, stigmas 3, capillary. 



Var. /3, Kookeri, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 618. C. Hookeri, Boeck. 

 in Litmcea, xxxvi. 308. C. Neesii, Thw. Enum. 344 (? KuntJi). C. P. 3043. 



Spikes more numerous, larger, up to 3I in., with close-set 

 more-spreading golden brown shining spikelets, glumes more 

 strongly cuspidate. 



Wet places in the dry region. Trincomalie (Glenie). Var. (3 in the 

 moist region up to 3000 ft.; rather common. Fl. Jan.-Sept. 



Also in India and Malaya, Australia. 



A very handsome species, especially var. /3, of which the type appears 

 rather as a depauperate form. — J. D. H. 



37. C. eleusinoides, Kuntk, Enum. PI. ii. 39 (1837). 



C. xanthopits, Steud.; Thw. Enum. 344. C. P. 3044. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 608. 



Perennial ; rootstock woody, with short lateral shoots, but 

 310 true stolons, root-fibres stout; stem tall, 1^—4 ft, stout, 

 triquetrous, angles smooth ; 1. long, up to T ^ in. broad, flat, 

 midrib stout, margins and keel scaberulous, sheath long; 

 umbel erect, compound, 6-8 in. long, contracted, rays 4-8 in., 

 rather stout, trigonous ; spikes sessile and peduncled, h-i in. 

 by \-\ in. diam., green, bracteolate ; bracts 3 or 4, one or two 

 longer than the umbel, leaf- like, bracteoles filiform or 

 subulate, rhachis of spikes sometimes winged, more or less 

 clothed with empty glumes; spikelets most densely im- 

 bricating, ]V~6 m - l° n g> or longer, erect, linear or oblong, flat, 

 few or many-fid., green, rhachilla winged ; glumes closely 



