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Cyperus.] CYPERACE. 1141 
+Spikelets rusty-brown; bracts at least half as long as 
umbel-rays, often longer, not ovate at base; stem usually 
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Glumes remote, in fruit scarcely imbricating ; pages 0: 
rhizome short, Neteale wings of rachilla caducous :—[p. 1140] 
Has ts spicate : 
em slender, grass-like; wing of rachilla narrow, hyaline 
macer. 
Stem stout, rush-like ; wing of rachilla strong...... tegetu 
Spikelets compressed ; stem slender for its height, seen tik’ 
‘wing’ of taehilte atrolig’ cists ilssccvsnveesns cessssont sree Zollingeri. 
OLeaves long, almost always more than half as long as stem or 
longer ; bracts always eee . 1140] 
Rhizome stoloniferous :— 
em ase noo thickened, and suddenly oe 
into a wiry rhizome undus 
Stem at base Rs lag sig tuberosus 
Rhizome not stoloniferous 
Anthers not crested :— 
Wings of rachilla persis 
Spikes digitate, i my Se spikelets sealed 
or ~brown 
Spikes, at least some, peduncled ; spikelets seeders 
r -brow 
“Ripe spi ikelots ascending exaltatus 
Ripe spikelets rigidly patent.........eraltatus var. heen: 
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Anthers with crests half as long as their cells or longer 
platyphyllus. 
- Cyperus CepHaLotes Vahl; F. B. I. vi. 597. C. mono- 
cephalus F. 1. i, 188. Kyllinga monocephala E. D. K. 47. 
N. Bengal. 
A iiatiachap sedge, floating in tanks. Beng. Gothubi, 
nirtroba. 
. Cyprus piatystyLis R. Br.; F. B. I. vi. 598. 
Behar; Tirhut; N. Bengal; E. Bengal ; Chittagong. 
A glabrous sedge, floating in tanks. 
. CypERus amaBitis Vahl; F. B. I. vi. 598. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A glabrous, cespitose sedge, 2-8 in. high. 
. Cyperus cuspipatus H. B. & K.; F B. I. vi. 598. 
