Cyperus.'] OLxxii. oypbeaoe/B. (C. B. Clarke.) 619 



and bracts very long broad, umbel very large, spikes long linear-cylindrio, 

 spikelets linear subterete suberect dirty straw-oolour, wings of rhaoheola 

 broad-lanceolate yellow separating, crest of anthers J-f length of cells. 

 C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 190. C. elatus, Bomh. Fl. Ind. i. 

 204 {not of Linn.). C. maximus, Boxh. ms. G. fastigiatus, Bottl. i/n New. 

 Schr. Gesell. Fr&unde Berlin, iv. 210 {not of Bottb.). C. eminens, Klein, 

 ms. ; Kwnth Enwm. ii. 70 ; Boeck. in Linntsa, xxrvi. 312. 0. Roxburghii, 

 Nees in Wight Gontrih. 84 ; Xunth I. c. 99 ; Thw. JEnum. 843. Papyrus 

 latifoHxis, Willd. in Ahhandl. Akad. Berol. (1816), 74. — Cyperus, Wall. 

 Gat. 3341, B. 



Decgan Peninsula; Sottler, &c. Cbtion; Thwaites (n. 3041). 



Stem 6 ft., sometimes more, at top triquetrous, scabrous, angles cutting. Leaves 

 often 1 in. broad, two lateral nerves prominent above, whiteish underneath, often 

 scabrous on keel. Primary rays of itmbel 8-10 in. Spilces i in. 



BESrOTJABY SPECIES. 



0. BEiTNirESCENS, Boeck. Gyp. Nov. ii. 3 ; robust, wholly brown-fuscous, umbel 

 simple 6-8 in. diam., spikelets oblong obtuse, glumes 8-10-striate with recurved 

 macro, style very slender deeply 3-fid. Singapore ; Voight. 



C. ooKONARius, Kunth Enum. ii. 44. (Soirpus coronarius, Vahl 'Enwm. ii. 261. 

 Isolepis coronaria, Moem. S; Sch. St/st. ii. 113.) Bengal. Style trifid, Kunth; bifid, 

 Vahl, " Resembles Kyllingia monocephalse " Vahl. 



C. CTLiNDEious, Boeolc. in Flora, xlii. 437 bis. — Ind. Okient. " Very like 0. 

 Walliehianus, Spreng.," Boeckeler. But C. Wallichianus, Spreng. has been in- 

 scrutable to botanists (see Kunth Enum. ii. 98) nor is it known where Boeckeler has 

 elucidated it. 



C. iNDlctrs, Boeck. Cyp. Nov. i. 6 {not of Persoon) ; 2 ft., umbel compound 6 

 in. diam., spikes dense oylindric, style deeply 3-fid, rhacheola narrowly winged. — 

 Himalaya ; Bulwasoher Valley, alt. 2000 ft. , and Jubbulpore, alt. 1000 ft., 0. Kv/atze 

 (''Near Gyp. chilensis," Boeck.). 



C. PUSiLius, Yahl Enum. ii. 303, i.e. C. pygmseus, Uetx. Ohs. iv. 9. — 

 Tranquebar. 



C. Ki&iDUlus, Yahl lEnum. ii. 342. — Ind. Orient. 

 C. SETiroiius, Don Prodr. 38. — Nepaul. 



C. spoNoioso-TA&iNATUs, BoecJc. Cyp. Nov. i. 6 ; tall, umbel compound, spike- 

 lets loosely spicate, wings of rhachiUa linear-oblong cuspidate yellow soon separating. 

 — BengaIi ; O. Kuntze. — Perhaps 0. digitaius or 0. Oatesii. 



C. TENEE, Vahl Emim. ii. 299. — Ind. Orient, — " Isolepidis sp. 2." Kunth. 



C. iKisuLCirs, Don Prodr. 39. — Nepaul. 



0. TJHBELLAius, Burm. Fl. Ind. 21, t. 9, fig. 1. {not Boxb.). — Perhaps 



0. Waihghianits, Spreng. Syst, Cur. Post. 28 (C. pulcher, Don Prodr. 38). — 

 Nepaul. 



5. nXARXSCUS, Vahl. 



Leaves and bracts grass-like. Glumes persistent, 2 lowest empty, 1-12 

 suoeeeding bisexual nut-bearing; rhacheola disarticulating above the 2 

 lowest empty glumes leaving a knob. — Otherwise as Oyperus. — Sp. 160, 

 warm regions. 



Subg. I. BuiBoCAtiLrs. Base of stem oblong thickened by the turgid 

 membranons coloured sheaths. (Sp. 1-2.) 



