Cypems.] Cyperacece. 2 3 



12. C. conglomerates, Rottb., Descr. et Ic. 21 (1773). 

 Thw. Enum. 343. C. P. 8c8. 



Fl. B. lnd. vi. 602. Rottb. Let. 15. f. 7- 



Rootstock short or long, woody, creeping, \-\ in. diam., 

 roots of stout woolly fibres; stems 18-24 in., stout, terete 

 below, trigonous above, base thickened and clothed with dark 

 chestnut-brown ovate acuminate scales ; 1. as long as the stem 

 ■or shorter, \-\ in. broad, coriaceous, margins involute when 

 dry, dorsally rounded, not keeled, veins obscure; heads globose, 

 \-\\ in. diam., of densely crowded spreading spikelets; bracts 

 3-4, very long, spreading and deflexed, narrower than the 1., 

 longest up to 10 in.; spikelets ovate-oblong, \ by \ in. long, 

 10-20-fld., rhachilla stout, scarred, not winged ; glumes 

 broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, cymbiform, cuspidate below 

 the obtuse erose tip; dorsally rounded, not keeled, many- 

 veined, sides hyaline, veinless ; stam. 3, anth. very long, 

 narrow, muticous; nut \ the length of the glume, broadly 

 obovoid, compressed, obscurely trigonous, dark brown, style 

 shorter than the nut, stigmas 3, capillary. 



Var. /3, pachyrhizus, Trim. mss. 



C. fiachyrhzzus, Nees ex Boeck. in Linnasa, xxxv. 545. Trim. Cat. 200. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 603. 



More slender, 1. narrower, head 2 in. diam., rays \ in., 

 spikelets smaller and narrower, about ^ by T V in., glumes 

 muticous. 



Sandy sea-coast, in dry region ; very rare. Aripo (Gardner). Var. /?, 

 Kalpitiya on W. Coast. Fl. March, Aug. 



Also in N. Africa, Arabia, and Sind, and Var. /3 in Laccadive Is. 



C. jeminiats, Rottb. (non Retz.) is referred to this by Clarke in Fl. B. 

 Ind., who also refers the plant of Thw. Enum. to C. ftachyrhizns, and I 

 have done so in Syst. Cat. 100 ; but it seems closer to the type. — Tritnen. 



13. C. arenarius, Rets. Obs. Bot. iv. 9 (1786). Mudu-kalan- 

 duru, S. 



Moon, Cat. 6. Thw. Enum. 342. C. P. 798. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 602. Plukenet, Phytogr. t. 300, f. 7. 



Rootstock elongate, striate, rigid, creeping, dichotomously 

 branched, sheathed at the nodes with chestnut scales an inch 

 long, roots fibrous, filiform, glabrous ; stem solitary, 4-22 in., 

 rather stout, rigid, terete, clothed below with long withered 

 sheaths; 1. longer or shorter than the stem, T2~i m - broad, 

 spreading and recurved, rigidly coriaceous, terete and grooved 

 above, or broader with complicate sides, veinless, not keeled ; 

 head globose, |-i| in. diam., of many sessile radiating 

 spikelets; bracts 2-3, foliaceous, rigid, lowest 2-4 in., 

 simulating a continuation of the stem ; spikelets |— J by £ in., 

 linear-oblong, 8— 16-fld., straw-col'd., finally brown, rachilla 



