Juncellus,'] clxxii. ctpeeacej:. (C. B. Clarke.) 595 



Kashmib; alt. 1000 ft., Jacquemont, &e. PUNJAB; alt. 1000 ft., Thomson, 

 &c. — DisTBiB. from Spain to Japan. 



Glabrous, except sometimes rhachis of spikes. Sterns solitary, 1-3 ft. Leaves 

 often as long as stem, ^-i in. broad. Braots 3-5, jip to 8-18 in. leaf-like. Vmbel 

 rays 3-6, up to 2-6 in. long, very unequal, rather stout j umbellales shortly corym- 

 bose or capitate ; bracteoles short. Spikes of 5-40 spikelets, Spikelets i-i by -rj-i 

 in., 12-30-fld. (or shorter 6-8-fld.), turgid j rhacheola robust, tetragonous, excavated, 

 scarcely winged. Glumes approximate; margins narrowly scarious, in dried ripe 

 examples incurved crisped. Stamens 3 ; anthers scarcely apiculate. Style short ; 

 branches about as long as nut. Nut obovoid, obtuse, smooth, dark^brovvn. — Much 

 confused in herbaria with Cyperas pilosus, Vahl, which it generally resembles and 

 has further the rhachis of the spikes minutely hairy, a rare character in Cyperus. ' 



2. J. stylosus, C. B. Glarlce ; stem at top trigonous slender, leaves 

 and braots rather short, glumes not striate towards their margins, style- 

 branches very long, nut (not quite ripe) small ; otherwise as J. serotinus. 

 Cyperus Monti, var. /3 ? stylosa, G. B. GlarJce in Journ. Lmn. Soc. xxi. 

 73. 



KhASIA HlIlS ; Oriffith. 



Leaves not half length of stem. Bracts scarcely overtopping inflorescence. 

 Shachis of spikes glabrous. Glumes ohestnut-red, with very narrow white margins, 

 inflated as in J. serotitms. Spikelets comosefrom the persistent long dark-red styles. 

 2futs perhaps all imperfect. 



3. J. inundatus, C. B. Clarke ; stout, stem at top triquetrous thick, 

 leaves and bracts long, umbel compound, spikelets in loose spikes, glumes 

 obtuse 5-7-nerved, nut longer than ^ the glume. Cyperus inundatus, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 201 ; Wall. Gat. 3342 A, B ; G. B. Clarke m Journ,. Linn. 

 Soc. xxi. 31, 73 (not of Br. or Nees). 0. dilnvialis, Schultes in Boem. & 

 Sch. Syst. ii. Mant. 124. C. pnncticulatus, Steud. 8yn. Gyp. 10 {partly, not 

 of Fa/iO— Cyperus, Wall. Gat. 3355, 0. 3359, F. 



BsMaAii; in swamps, from Sylhet to the sea, frequent. — Distbib. China. 



Bhachis of spike glabrous, 1-2 in., spikelets often |— J in. apart. Differs little 

 from J. seroUims, but by the open spikes. In herbaria it is more frequently mixed 

 either with Cyperns procerus or Pycreus punctioulatus. 



4. J. alopecuroideS; G. B. GlourJoe; large, leaves and bracts long, 

 umbel large compound, spikes cylindric very dense, spikelets Unear-oblong 

 bearing 8-30 nuts, glumes concave dirty straw-colour, rhachilla rather stout 

 Bubquadrangular not winged, nut small \ length of glume. Cyperus 

 alopeouroides, Botth. Descr. et Ic. (1773), 38, t. 8, fig. 2 ; Nees in WigM 

 Contrih. 76 ; Kunih Enum. ii. 19 ; TAw. Enwm. 342 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 282 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 261 ; Boeck. in Linnma, xxxvi. 322 {exel. var. a) j 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 367 ; G. B. Clarke in Journ, Linn. 8oc. xxi. 30, 74, 

 t. 2, fig. 13 ; King in T. E. Atkins. Gaz. x. (1876), 320. 0. compositus, 

 Br. Prodr. 217. 0. semidives, Steud. Syn. Gyp. 36. 0. speciosus, con- 

 gestus, alopecuroides, nerb. Heyne; Wall. Cat. 3344, B, C. 



Throughout India, from Peshavtue, OrigitTi {Kew Disirib. 6150) to Siihet, 

 Hook. f. ^ T. T., and Cbtlon, Thwaites. — Distbib. Afric. and Austral, trop. 



A large glabrous annual, 2-3 ft. Leaves often as long as stem, , |-J in. 

 broad. Bays of nmbel 4-6 in. ; bracts 12-18 in., leaf-like ; raylets often 1 in. 

 bearing at apex 2-4 ebracteolate spikes. Spikes l-H by f in. Spilcelets \ in., 

 lanceolate, compressed. Glomes muticous or mucronulate. Stamens 3; anthers 

 muticous. Nuts plano-convex, finally ashy-black (many imperfect pale) ; style 

 as long as nut, branches longer, shortly exsert. — United by Boeckeler with 



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