1142 BENGAL PLANTS. [Cyperus. 
In most of the provinces. 
A glabrous, small sedge; stems ‘25-6 in. high. 
2401. Cyperus FLAviDUs Retz; F.I. i. 200; F. B. I. vi. 600. 
In all the provinces. 
i acu mages oo living about three months, 
mon in rice- 
2402. ee DIFFORMIS Linn. ; F.1.i.195; F. B. I. vi. 599. 
he provinces. 
A glabrous sedge, 4~20 in. high. aia Behua. 
2403. CyPERUS SILLETENSIS Nees; F. B. I. vi. 600. 
E. Bengal. 
A slender or medium sedge, 4-12 in. high. 
e F. B. I. gives Bengal as a locality for C. pulcherrimus, on 
the authority of specimens collected by Wallich. What Walli lich 
says, however, is ‘* Bengal Inf. ?”’ and as no one else has collected 
the plant in —— it is possibly not a Bengal species. It is very 
near C. silletensis ; dried examples are easily distiiguished by the 
crisped Sed ibe of the glume. 
2404, Cyperus Haspan Linn.; F. I. i. 210; F. B. I. vi. 600; 
E. D. c. 2600. 
In many of the provinces. 
A glabrous, slender, or medium sedge; rhizome long, 
rarity but plant often flowering in first season; 
mmon, especially in dibbled rice-fields. 
2405, ames niveus Retz; F. I. i. 191; F. B. I. vi. 601; E.D. 
c. 2610. 
Chota Nagpur; N. Bengal; C. Ben 
A glabrous sedge, the woody ea made up almost 
wholly of the nodose bases of the 1-seriate stems. 
Santal. Birmutha. 
2406. CyPERUS LEUCOCEPHALUS Retz; F. B. I. vi. 602. 
Behar; W. Bengal. 
= bevgpiacs ice: stems nodose at base, tufted on @ 
rt, woody rootstock. 
2407. nets ARENARIUS Retz ; mi B. I. vi. 602. 
Orissa, sea-coast at Poo: 
A glabrous sedge, with AN es rather distant stems 
on a slender, divided, creeping roots 
2408. Cyperus pirrusus Vahl; F. B. I. vi. 603 
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