606 oLxxii. CYPEEACiiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Oyperus. 



Glabrous. Stems csaspitose, 4-16 in., or (in the form C. pecHniformis, Nees) 

 0-2 in. Leaves often nearly as long as stem, ^-^ in. broad. Umbel rays 0-6 in. j 

 bracts often longer than umbel, leaf-like. Spikelets ^1 by i-i in. (in form peetini- 

 formis up to 1^ in. and 20-60-fld. Glumes densely, not rigidly, imbricated, ovate, 

 many-nerved, muero scarcely recurved. Stamens 3 ; anthers linear-oblong, scarcely 

 apiculate. Nut 5 length of glume, very broad ; style shorter than nut, branches 

 linear shortly exsert. 



28. C. g'laber, lArm. Mant. 179 ; umbels contracted, spikelets very 

 closely spicate more or less red-tinged, glumes muticous or very nearly so, 

 nut obovoid obtuse minutely conic-apioulate (otherwise as G. oonvpressus). 

 Reich. Ic. Fl. Oerm. viii. 32, t. 280, fig. 669 ; BoecJc. m Linneea, xxxv. 517 ; 

 G. B. Clarice in Joum. lArm. Soc. xxi. 104 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 371. C. 

 patulus, Kitaih. ex Host Gram. Austr. iii. 49, t. 74; Kwnth Enum. ii. 

 24; Ledeb. Fl. Soss. iv. 240 (iwt of Bieb.). 



SiND ; Pinwill. — DiSTBiB. Westward to Sicily. 



TTmbel rays J-H in. GVumes nearly always reddish on the sides (green in 0. 



compressus). 



29. C. aristatus, Bottb. Bescr. et Ic. 23, t. 6, fig. 1 ; small, umbel 

 nearly simple or reduced to 1 head, spikelets densely spicate 6-30-fld., 

 glumes ovate-lanceolate many-striate over nearly their whole breadth 

 acuminate into a recurved bristle, nut oblong or narrow-obovoid \ length 

 of glume (bristle inclusive). Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 190 ; Kunth Fnum. ii. 23 

 {excl. syn. Bv/rm!) ; StracJvs.y Gat. PI. Kumaon 74 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 

 262 ; Thw. Fnum. 343 (excl. syn. Sam.) ; Boeck. in Idnnsea, xxxv. 500 ; C. 

 B. Clarke in Jowm. Limn. Soc. xxi. 91 ; Trimen Gat. Gei/lon PI. 100. 0. 

 squarrosus, Idnn. Sp. PI. 66 (partly). 0. versicolor, Nees imWight Contrib. 

 78. 0. arenarius, Serb. Wight; Wall. Gat. 3374, 3375. — Isolepis echinulata, 

 Kunth Fnum. ii. 205. 



Tbopical and Temp. Himai,. ; alt. 0-8500 ft., and thence to Ceylon.— Disteib. 

 Tropics. 



30. C. Iria, Linn. 8p. PI. 67 (excl. Pheede) ; leaves and bracts Ion g, 

 spikelets spicate or subracemose linear 6-20-fld., glumes obovate in fruit 

 hardly imbricate, nut triquetrous nearly as long as glume. Boxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 201 ; Nees in Wight Contrib. 87 ; Kunth Fnum. ii. 38 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 269 and Suppl 260 ; Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 282 ; Fdgew. in Jomn. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 319; Boeck. in Idnnsea, xxxv. 595; King in E. T. Atkinson 

 Gaz. X. 620 ; Aitch. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 189 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient v 370 • 

 G. B. Clarke in Joum. Linn. Soc. xx. 289 and xxi. 137. 0. songarious, karel 

 et Kiril. in Bull Soc. Mosc. [1841] 859. C. seminudus, Moritzi Verz. ZoU. 

 Pfl. 96 (not of Boxb.). 0. diaphaniria and microiria, Steud. in Zoll Verz 

 Ind. Archip. ii. 62 and Syn. Gyp. 23. C. microlepis. Baker Fl. Maurii. 

 410 (not of Boeck).— Gj^xyxs, Wall. Gat. 3360, 3361.— Oyperus, Goldstream, 

 Grass. S. Punjab, t. 38, A. 



India, general in rice-fields. — Disieib. Old world. 



A glabrous shortlived weed. Stems osespitose, 4^-20 in. Leaves often nearly as lone 

 as stem, i in. broad, grass-Uke. Umbel 2-20 in. in diam., varying greatly in size 

 usually compound, 3-5, up to 4-12 in.j primary rays sometimes at apex corymbose 

 sometimes again umbelled. Spikes very loosely spicate, rhaohis ^2 in. Spikelets 5-20 

 obliquely erect, yellow or brown (not red nor chestnut), J-i by J^ in. ; rhacheola not 

 winged. Glumes 3-5-nerved on back, sides nerveless, muticous or Bcaroelv apiculate 

 Stamens 2 or 3 ; anthers oblong, muticous. Nut triquetrous, black j style much 



