Cypencs.] olxxii. oyperaoe^. (0. B. Clarke.) 601 



finally blackening, stamen 1 (rarely 2), nut plano-convex (plane face against 

 rhachilla), ripe marble-wkite (otherwise as O. Haspan). Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 

 200 ; Nees in Wight Oontrib. 80, in note ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 283 ; 

 G. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 287, and xxi. 122 and xxv. 81. C. 

 Haspan, Bottb. Descr. et lo. p. 36, t. 6, fig.- 2 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 574 

 (Fow. a partly). 0. tenuispica and 0. Fieldingii, Steud. 8yn. Gyp. 11. 0. 

 miorocarpns, Boeck. in Bremen Ahhandl. vii. 37. C. strictus, Serb. Heyne ; 

 Wall. Gat. 3365. C. Haspan and 0. hexangularis, Serb. Wight; Wall. 

 Cat. 3369, A, B, 0.— Oyperas, Wall. Cat. 3313 (partly). 



Throughout India, abundant in rice-fields. — Distbib. Warm regions of the Old 

 World. 



Lives about 3 months. Bracts usually longer than stem. Qlumes rather 

 smaller than in 0. Haspan. Nut vecj obtuse at top. 



Sect. 4. Nivei. Shizome woody, very short ; rootlets wiry. Inflores- 

 cence of one head. (Sp. 12-14.) 



12. C. Teneriffae, Pair, in Lam. Eneyc. vii. 245 ; stems at base 

 cylindric thickened by coloured sheaths, spikelets 10-36-fld. much com- 

 pressed red, glumes very acute conspicuously mucronate, nut ^ length o£ 

 glume. C. nitens, Rottb. in Neue Schr. Ges. FrewnAe, Berlin, iv. 193, in 

 Obs. (not of Retz.). 0. coromandelinus, Sprang. Byst. i. 217 {notofBoech.). 



0. peotiniformis, Roem. et 8eh. 8yst. II., Mant. 128 {not of Nees). 0. 

 pectinatua, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 190 (not of Vahl). 0. Wightii, Nees in Wight 

 Gontrib. 78 ; Kunth Fnum. ii. 99 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 507. 0. rubi- 

 cundus, Kunth I. c. 49 ; Webb et Berth. Pkyt. Ganar. iii. 361, t. 240 (nut 

 too acute) ; G. B. Gla/rke in Jowrn Linn. 8oc. xxi. 104 (not of Vahl). 0. 

 arenarius, Serb. Seyne; Wall. Cat. 3314, A (partly). 0. nitens, Serb. 

 Mad/ras ; Wall. Gat. 3314, B. 



Deccan Peninsula, Sottler, Wight. Poona, Woodrow. Nilq-hieis, Ho- 

 henacker. — Disteib. Africa, Arabia. 



Glabrous, whole plant usually more or less red; stolons 0. Stems 2-11 in. 

 Leaves usually § length of stem, ^— J in. broad, weak ; sheaths broad, usually scarious, 

 inflated. Bracts 2, lower l-lj in.. Spikelets 3-20 in 1 head, f by J in. Glumes 

 close-packed, much imbricated at base, 9-15-striate, keel very acute excurreut con- 

 spicuously. Stamens 3; anthers nearly 'muticous. Nut obovoid, triquetrous with 

 concave faces, reticulate black and white ; style as long as nut, branches linear. — 

 C. rubicimdus, Vahl, is a Puerto Rico plant ; and the description can hardly (ad- 

 mitting error in habitat) refer to 0. Teneriffce, as Vahl does not describe the 

 excnrrent mucro of the glumes. Finally, even were our plant C. ruhioundus, Vahl, 

 it must take the earlier name of Teneriff<e. The name 0. nitens, Rottler, is 

 earlier ; but 0. miens, Betz., cannot be set aside, because almost the only certain 

 thing regarding it, is that it was not a Fycreus, and therefore not the Cyperus nitens, 

 auctorum. 



13. C. niveus, Ret's. Obs. v. 12 ; culms at base nodose closely uni- 

 seriate, spikelets 3-12 in one head strongly compressed linear-oblong 20-40- 

 fld. white or cinnamomeous, glumes muticous, nut oblong-obovoid J length 

 of glume. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 191 ; Nees in Wight Gontrib. ISi ; Kunth 

 Fnum. ii. 45 ; JIfiq. F7. Ind. Bo^t. iii. 271 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxv. 530 ; 

 Aitch. Gat. Punjab PI. 155, and in Jov/rn. Linn. Soc. xix. 189 ; C. B. Clarke 



1. c. 108.— Cyperus, Wall. Cat. 3377. 



From Kashmie to Uppbe Buema, alt. 0-6000 ft. and southward to Calcutta and 

 Hyderabad. — Disteib. Cabul, China. 



Glabrous. Rhizome woody, almost wholly constructed of the nodose bases of 



