360 ON CYPERUS BULBOSUS VAHL. 
different from the Arabian one of Rottbdll, and gave it another 
name; but it does not appear to have been published before 
Dietrich’s book. : 
vi 
n what part 
of India he had met with it, but it may be presumed to have been 
the north part of the Coromandel coast 
Clarke places C. bulbosus (C. jemenicus) in the typical series of 
his section ** Corymbosi,”’ principally characterized by being leafy 
plants with a perennial (usually creeping) rhizome ; on the one 
side its neighbours are C. tenuiflorus Rottb., C. stoloniferus Retz., C. 
Hach individual of C. bulbosus is as strictly an annual as other 
proliferous bulbous plants, such as many Alliums, of which it has 
completely the structure. It is often customary to term such 
* In Wight, Contrib., p. 80. 
+ Linnea xxxvi., p. 300, n. 238. 
{ Fi. Ind. i., p. 191. : 
§ I do not, however, find the name « Puri-gaddi” nor the plant mentioned in 
Elliott’s ‘ Flora Andhrica.’ 
|| Enum, Plant. ii., p. 58. 
J Enum. PI. Zeyl., p. 343. 
** A, Richard, Fl. Abyss. ii., 509, 
