Gyperus.'] clxxii. OYPBRACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 607 



shorter than nut,- branches linear shortly exserfc. — Sheede Sort. Malab. xii. 105, t. 

 86, cited by Linnaeus, &o., is 0. inundatus, Roxb. 



y^T. P pcmiciformu (sp.) Franch. et Savat. PI. Japon. ii. 103, 537; spikelets 

 bearing 2-4 nuts, spikes (in the extreme typical form) drawn out into nearly linear 

 racemes. C. parviflorus, Nees in Wight Contrib. 87 (excl. all sym.), C. Iria, TAm. 

 Mnwm. 844. 



From Kashmir to Ceylon and the Andamans, 



31. C. grlomeratus, Lmn. Sp. PL 68; large, without stolons, leaves 

 and bracts long narrow, umbel compound, spikelets in very dense short- 

 cylindric spikes, glumes elliptic-oblong obtuse ferruginous finally brown, 

 nnt oblong | length of glume. Host Oram. Austr. iii. 48, t. 71 ; Kumth. 

 Bnum. ii. 77 ; iJeiofe. lo. Fl. Germ. viii. 33, t. 284, fig. 675, Boeok. in Linnsea, 

 XXXV. 692 ; G. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 141 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 

 372. 



Kashmir; Sonamurg, alt. 6500 ft., Thomson.— Distsib. From Italy to China 

 and Japan. 



Glabrous. Stems 12-33 m. Leaves often as long aa stems, -l— J in. broad. 

 Umbel, rays 3-8 up to 3-4 in. long, often concentrated nearly into 1 head; bracts 

 3-5, 6-12 in. long. Spikes J by | in. Spikelets 40-50, i by -5^ in., compressed, 

 12— 20-fld. Glumes scarcely keeled, in fruit loosely imbricated; rhacheola with 

 narrow hyaline wings. Stamens 3 ; anthers small, oblong, muticous. Nut exactly 

 oblong, pyramidal at either end, dusky black; style much shorter than nut, 

 branches linear shortly exsert. 



Sect. 2. Rhizome becoming woody ; elongate stolons frequent. Large 

 (or middle-sized). (Sp. 32-39.) 



32. C< distans; Idnn.f. Suppl. 103; umbel large compound, spikelets 

 spicate narrow-linear lO-20-fld., glumes remote oblong-elliptic obtuse, nut 

 oblong or narrowly ellipsoid i-j- length of glume. Jaoq. Ic. ii. t. 299 ; 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 207 ; Nees in Wight Gontrib. 88 ; Kunth Enwm. ii. 98 ; 

 Thw. Fwwm. 344 ; Boeeh. in Linniea, xxxv. 612 ; I>alz. & Cribs. Bomb. Fl. 

 283 ; Duthie in E. T. Atkinson Gaz. x. 620 ; G. B. Glcu-he in Journ. lAnn. 

 Soc. XX. 290 and xxi. 144. 0. elatus, Eotti. Beser. et le. 37, t. 10 {not of 

 Linn.). C. nutans, Presl in Oken. Isis. xxi. 271 ; C B. Clarke, I. c. 291 and 

 143 (parthf). C. Jacquini, Schrad. in Linnma, xi. , Litt. Ber. 87 ; Stead. I. c. 

 49. C. graminicola, Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Arohi/p. ii. 63 and Cyp. 49. 

 0. Kurrii, Steud. Syn. Gyp. 38 ; M.iq. Fl. Lid. Bat. iii. 279.— Cyperus, Wall. 

 Gat. 3350, 3366. 



From the HiMAiAYA, alt. O-3O0O ft., to Cbtlon and Siitgapoeb. — DiSteib. 

 All warm regions. 



Glabrous. Stolons up to 2 by -Jj in. clothed by dark brown elliptic acute scales. 

 Stems 1-3 ft. (depauperated less than 1 in.). Leaves often as long as stem, |— J in. 

 broad. Umbel 8-12 in. in. diam., from a single head 2\ in. diam. to an umbel with 

 one ray 26 in. copiously 3-1 times compound ; bracts rather longer than umbel, 

 leaf-like. Rhachis of spike ^2 in., glabrous. Spikelets |-1 by ^ in., young 

 nodding, mature spreading at right angles, more or less red ; wings of rhachilla 

 narrow, hyaline, ultimately caducous. Stamens 3 ; anthers oblong, muticous. Nut 

 dusky black; style much shorter than nut, branches shortly exsert. — The slender 

 rhacheola of spikelet, apparently wavy from the very distant scars of the fallen 

 glumes, usually marks this species. 



33. C- nutans, Vdhl Enmn. ii. 363 ; large, spikelets racemose (i.e. 

 loosely spicate) ripe suberect, glumes somewhat remote often minutely 

 muoronate (otherwise as large examples of C. distans). Kunth Enum. ii. 



