Kyllinga.'\ clxxii. OYPEEAOEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 589 



upper half of keel with a lunate crested glandular wing, nut yellow-brown. 

 Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 180; Wees in Wight Contrib. 91 (pa/rtly); Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Sat. iii. 291 ; Thw. Enum. 345 ; BoecJc. in Lvrmsea, xxxv. 427. K. triceps, 

 Zinn.f. Bwppl. 104 {partly, not of Botth.). K. sororia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 293 {partly, not ofKunth). K. gracilis, Zoll. Verz. Ind. ArcJiip. ii. 63 

 {notofKunth). K. mmAoreneis, Steud. 8yn. PL Gyp. 67. Scirpas Oepha- 

 lotes, Jacq. Eort. Vind. t. 97.— Kyllingia, Wall. Cat. 3443 A, F (partly), H 

 (partly). 



Throughout India, common ; from Kumaon to Assam, Cetlon and Singapoee. 

 — DiSTKiB. Hot and warm temp, regions of the Old World except the Medi- 

 terranean. 



Closely resembles K. IrevifoUa except in the crest (usually straw-eolrd. with 

 scattered red circular resinous glands) on the upper part of keel of nut-bearing 

 glume, 



6. K. squamulata, Vahl Env/m. ii. 381 ; nearly glabrous, roots 

 fibrous, spikes 1-3 ovoid, fl. glume scarcely acute its keel winged by a 

 broad hyaline incise-toothed crest, nut brown. Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 431. 

 E. Metzii, Stevd. Syn. Bl. Cyp. 70. K. monocephala, Strachey Serb. 

 Kumaon, 74 (not of Botth.). 



Western India; Kashmik, Thomson. GuEWHAii, up to 5500 ft., Vuthie. Mt. 

 Aboo, King. Canaea, Metz. — Distbib. Trop. Africa. 



Stems tufted (annual), 2-12 in. Leaves often longer than stem, | in. broad. 

 Sead i in. in diam., green or brown. Spiielets J in. long, maturing 1 nut only. 



2. PVCREUS, Beauv. 



Characters of 4 Oj/perus but nut compressed laterally, and Style 

 branches 2. — Species 50, all warm and temp, regions. 



* Outer superficial cells of nut (at least on its shoulders) longitudinally 

 oblong or elhptic; nut often appearing transversely lineolate or imper- 

 fectly zonate (by reason of the narrow ends of the cells running into an 

 undulating line). 



1. P. flavescens, Nees in lAnnsea, ix. 283 ; annual, slender, umbel 

 simple or reduced to 1 head, bracts spreading, spikelets linear -^ in. wide 

 yellow or pale, nut obovoid compressed shining black hardly haU as long 

 as the glome. Cyperus flavescens, Linn. Sp. Bl. 68 (not of Linn. Herh.) ; 

 Xunth Envm. ii. 5; Beichh. Ic. PI. Germ. viii. 31, t. 278, figs. 662-664; 

 Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 438, and in Jowrn. Linn. Soe, xviii. 104 ; Clarke, 

 I. c. xxi. 36 ; Boiss. PI. Orient, v. 364 (excl. Oabul sp.). 



Punjab ; Kurrum Valley, Aitchison, a. 964. — Distbib. N. temp, regions. 



Stems 1-12 in. Leaves often f length of stem, -}^ in. wide, grass-like. Spikelets 

 clustered or very shortly spicate, spreading in fruit. Nut obtuse, with transverse 

 white lines ; black cells of surface longitudinally oblong. 



2. P. stramineus, G. B. Glarke; umbels reduced to 1 compound 

 head of 5-12 straw-colrd. spikelets, bracts and spikelets (even in fruit) 

 suberect (otherwise nearly as P. ^flwescejw). Cyperus stramineus, JTee* in 

 Wight Contrib. 74 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 9 ; Clarke in Jowrn. Imm,. Soc. 

 xxi. 39. C. capillaris, Hochst. ms.; Stewd. Syn. Bl. Gyp. 4 (not ofKcenig.). 

 C. coromandelinus, Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 480 (not of Bpreng.). C. fili- 

 formis, Heyne ; Wall. Cat. 3320 (fa/rtly). 



