11^44 Ctili. GtPEEACE^. [Cyperusl 



38. C. eleusinoides (like an Eleusine), Kunth, Eniim. ii. 89 ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. 

 vii. 277. Stems from a hard rhizome 2ft. high or more, acutely 3-anglecl. Leaves 

 with long sheaths covering the lower part of the stem, the lamina sometimes 

 short narrow and rigid, sometimes broad and as long as the stem. Spikelets in 

 dense close spikes occupying the whole or nearly the whole of the partial rays of 

 a compound umbel which is usually narrow and irregular, the longer primary 

 rays often 6 to Sin. long and very erect. Involucral bracts few, 1 or- 2 much 

 longer than the inflorescence. Spikelets linear, flat, regularly _ pinnate, pale 

 coloured, 4 to 5 or rarely 6 lines long, rather above 1 line broad, with 10 to 16 or 

 rarely more fl'owers, the rhachis not winged or with a very narrow border. 

 Glumes spreading, loosely imbricate or rather distant, somewhat scarious and 

 often notched at the top, the prominent keel produfeed into a short point, and 2, 

 8 or rarely 4 nerves on each side. Style 3-cleft. Nut obovoid or oblong, 

 prominently 3-angled, more than half the length of the glume. — Boeckel. in 

 Linnaea xxxv. 596 ; C. xanthopiis, Steud. in Flora, 1842, 595 ; F. v. M. Fragm. 

 viii. 264 (partly). 



Hab.: Port Denison, Fitzulan; Kockhiimpton and neiylibourhood, Dallachy, O'Skanesy; 

 •Springsure, TFsit^i ; Ijoakyer, liartnuinn. 



The species is widely spread over East India and tropical Africa. 



39. C. distans (glumes distant), Linn. f. ; Eunth, Enum. ii. 93 ; Benth. FL 

 Austr. v\\. 111. Stems 1 to 2ft. high, slender or rather stout, triquetrous. 

 Spikelets at first in narrow dense spikes, expanding into loose simple or branched 

 racemes, in a simple or compound umbel, the rays few or many, slender or 

 sometimes filiform. Involucre of few narrow bracts, 1 or 2 longer than the 

 inflorescence. Spikelets very narrow, linear, \ to lin. long, loosely spreading 

 when fully out, 10 to 20-fidwered, the rhachis filiform, not winged. Glumes 

 distant, appresed to the rhachis or rarely spreading, narrow, obtuse, the keel 

 prominent with 1 or 2 nerves on each side, the broad or ;iarrow margins pale and 

 nerveless. Style 3-pleft. Nut oblong, 3-angled, nearly or quite as long as the 

 glume. — Jacq. le. Ear, t. 299; -Beauv. Fl. Ow. et Ben. t. 20; Boeckel. in 

 Linntea, xxxv. 612 ; F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 266 ; C. elatus, Rottb. Descr. et. Ic. 

 PI. t. 10, not of Linn. 



Hab.: Herbert's Kiver, Dallachy, Bomnair, Eookijigham Bay, Dallachy; Kockhampton, 

 O'Shanesy. 

 This species is very widely spread over the warmer regions of the New and the Old World. 



40. C. COrymbOSUS (corymbose), Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 42, Trun. Ceyl. Fl. v, 

 29. Perennial, the rootstock stout, creeping, root-fibres stout. Stem 2 to 3ft. 

 high, thick as a goose-quill, spongy, appearing septate, lower portion terete, sub- 

 8-angular ,a.bovei Leaves none or a short bfiide rarely 6in. long,:itei;miaiating a 

 long loose membranous sheath. Umbel compound, narrow, rays 6 to 8, erect or 

 subereot, very unequal, longest 4in., bearing secondary rays terminated by spikes 

 or corymbs of 4 to 8 very slender spikelets. Bracts 8 very short, rarely as long 

 as the umbel, keeled, green, margins recurved, braoteoles setaceous.; spikelets 

 very variable in length, .J to lin. long, linear, very slender, about f line, 

 subterete, pale red, .rhachis narrowly winged. Glumes erect, rather distant but 

 appressed, oblong, obtuse, rather membranous, dorsally rounded and 3-veined, 

 margins pale, veinless. Stamens 3, anthers linear, muticous. Nut minute, 

 trigonous. Style long as nut. Stigmas 3, long, capillary.— C. diphijllus, Eetz. 

 according to Boeokeler, in Linnsea, xxxvi. 273 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 279. 



Hab.: Roekhampton, O'Slianesy ; and further in the tropics. 

 The species, extends^oveir a great part of East India. 



41. C. rotundus (round), Linn.; Eunth, Enum. ii. 58; Benth. Fl. Austr, vii. 

 279. Nut Grass. Ehizome creeping or stoloniferous, swelling hei;e and there 

 into tunicated tubers, the scales when worn away leaying annular scars or zones. 



