io 



4 inches. Spikelets pale straw-coloured. Stamen 

 usually one. Nut oblong obovate, biconve?^, 

 apiculate, brown. Common on the Hoshangabad 

 and Raipur Farms, 



il. PyCREUS CAPILLARIS, A^^^5. 



F. B, (. vi. 591 ; B. P. 1137; Cvperus glohosus, 

 F. B. P il. 857. 



Annual tufted slender glabrous sedge, 1-12 inches 

 high. Leaves as long as stem. Umbel sinsple 

 or reduced to one head. Bracts 2-3, up to 4 

 inches, very narrow, leaf-like. Spikelets dark 

 with light edges. Stamens generally two. Nut 

 oblong, apiculate, black. 



12. JuNCELLUs ALOPECUROIDES, C. B. Clarke. 



F. B. I. vi. 595 ; Cyperus atopecuroides F, B. P, ii. 

 860. 



Robust annual glabrous sedge, 2-3 feet. Leaves as 

 long as stem, broad. Stem thickened below, com- 

 pressible. Umbel compound, up to 6 inches. 

 Secondary branches i inch. Bracts many, up to 

 I foot or more. Spikes cylindrical, dense, dull 

 straw-coloured. Nut grey-black. 



13. JuNCELLus PYGM^us, C.B, Clarke, 



F. B. L vi. 595 ; B. P. 1 138; Cyperus pygmceus^ 

 F. B. P. ii. 859. 



Annual tufred glabrous sedge, 6 inches high. Leaves 

 as long as stem or shorter. Spikelets packed in a 

 dense terminal head, J inch diameter. Spikelets 

 greenish-brown. Bracts 2-6 leaf-like, base broad, 

 ^iut yellow-brown, ellipsoid. 



Rachilla not winged, Nos. 14 — 20. 



^4. Cyperus dtfformis, Linn, 



F. B. L vi. 599 ; B. P. 1142 ; F. B. P. ii. 862. 

 Medium-sized tufted annual glabrous sedge, 6-16 

 inches high. Stem triquetrous at top. Leaves 

 nearly as long as stem, broad, flaccid. Umbel 

 simple or compound or contracted into a head. 

 Bracts m.uch longer than umbel, leaf-like, 6Vie 

 sometimes erect like a; continuation of stem. 

 Spikelets small in dense heads, straw-coloured, 

 sides often red. Nut nearly as long as glum'e, 

 yellow. 



