Pycreus.] olxxii. OYPERACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 593 



9. P. ferrugrineus, 0. B. Clarke; spikelets rather broader redder, 

 glumes more distant (otherwise as P. polystachyua, Var. (3). Cyperus ferru- 

 gineus, Poir. in Lam. Uncyc. vii. 261 ; Kunth Ermm. ii. 11 ; Baker Fl. 

 Maurit. 408. 0. polystaohyus, Vars. ferruginea and macrostachya, Boeck. in 

 Linneaa, xxxv. 479, Vars. ferruginea, mioans and filicina, G. B. Clarke in 

 Jov/rn. Linn. Soc. xxi. 54, 55. 0. striotus, Sottler ms. Seyne ms. {not of 

 Boxb.)—Wall. Cat. 3331. 



The Deccan Peninsula j Bottler, &. Thomson. Chittagon&j /. D. B. — 

 SiSTBiB, Afric. Americ. 



10. P. sulcinuz, 0. B. Clarke ; as P. polystaohyus, var. jS, but spike- 

 lets longer, glumes more remote, nut unsymmetrio its faces much com- 

 presed usually concave. Cyperus sulcinux, G. B. Clarke in Jowrn. Linn. 

 8oc. xn.. 56 and xxv. 80. 



Bengal ; up to 500O feet, alt. frequent. Anamallat Mts. ; Seddome. Pegu ; 

 Kitrz. Tenassebim; Heifer {Kew Distrib. n. 6209, 4). — Distbib. Afr. trop. 

 Malaya. 



Slender. Spikelets up to 40-50-fld. Narrow edge[ot nut much flattened against 

 the rhacheola. 



ttt Boiusi, spikelets larger, yellow hrown or red, leaves close to base of 

 stem. 



11. P. angrulatusi Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283 ; robnst, umbel simple, 

 spikelets yellow or brown-yellow (see also var. 0) spicate, nut small obo- 

 void |-J length of glume. Cyperus unioloides, Br. Prod. 216; C. B. Clarke 

 in Jov/m. Linn. Soc. xii. 60. 0. bromoides, Willd. ms. ; Link Jahrh. iii. 85 ; 

 Kunth Mrvwm. ii. 8 ; Boeck. in lAnnsea, xxxv. 463. C. angulatns, Nees in 

 Wight Contrib. 73; Boeck. I.e. 465.— Cyperus, Wall. Cat. n. 3324. 



Nepal; Wallich. Dinajpoee; 0. B. Clarhe. Khasia; alt. 3-5000 feet, Bjf. 

 ^ T. T., &e. NiLGHiBi Hills ; WigM. Ava ; WaMich. — Distbib. tropics. 



Glabrous. Rhizome long, -^ in. in diam., or often 0. Boots fibrous. Stem 

 1^-3 ft. Leaves often f length of stem, \ in. broad. Vmlel rays 3-8, up to 2-4 in. 

 long (in depauperated a single few-spikeleted head); bracts 4-5, up to 8-12 

 in., leaf-like. Spikes of 3-20 spikelets, sometimes slightly compound ; bracteoles 

 inconspicuous. Spikelets f by -^ in., 22-fid. Glumes ^ in., ovate, triangular-acute, 

 loosely imbricate in fruit, 1-3-nerved, back green, sides shining yellow brown, 

 margin crisped. Stamens 3 ; anthers oblong-linear. Jfut compressed, black ; style 

 small, branches linear shortly exsert. 



Var. /3 WigMii; umbel contracted into a subcompound head, spikelets larger 

 shining chestnut-brown. 



Deccan Peninsula ; Wight. — A remarkable plant, only once collected. The 

 spikelets are, in size and colour, unlike any Indian or otiier example of P. angulatus, 

 while they most closely resemble P. macranfhus, a Gape plant ; but the nuts have 

 the surface-cells subquadrate, while in P. macranthus these are longitudinally 

 oblong. 



12. P. puncticulatus, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283 ; umbel compound or 

 simple, spikelets red spicate, nut broad-ellipsoid truncate \ length of 

 glume. P. Baccha, Nees in Linnsea, ix. 283. Cyperus puncticulatus, 

 Vahl Ermm. ii. 348 ; Kunth Enum. ii. 15 ; I>alz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 283 ; Thw. Enuwi. 342 ; Boeck. in Linneea, xxxv. 472 (excl. syn. Boxb^ ; 

 0. B. Clarke in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. xxi. 68. C. Baccha, Kunth I. c. ] 15. 0. 

 inundatus, Nees in Wight Contrib. 76 (not of Boxb.). C. procerus, Boxb, 



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