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10. Cyperus compressus Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 46, ed. 2, 68. 
A green annual, umbel simple ; spikelets much flattened; glumes acutely 
boat-shaped, mucronate. 
Miq. FI. Nederl. Infi. 3 : 263 et Suppl. 260, 599 ; Hook, f . FI. Brit. Ind. 6 : 
605; Vidal, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 282; Phaner. Cuming. Philip. 155; Hemsl. 
Journ. Linn. Soc. 3 6 (1903) 210. Cyperus humilis Llanos Fragm. PI. Filip. 
13, fide Naves. 
Philippines, (546 Cuming)-, (1960 Vidal). Luzon, (870 Jagor) ; (715 
Loher) ; (199 Chamisso) ; (183 Meyen) ; (1130 Merrill). 
Very common in the warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
11. Cyperus distans Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 103. 
Umbel open, compound; .spikelets spicate, linear; glumes small, very 
remote. 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6: 607; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 283; Phaner. 
Cuming. Philip. 155; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 211. Cyperus 
elatus Presl. ! in Oken Isis 21 (1828) 271; Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. heft 
2, 63; Miq. FI. Nederl. Ind. 3: 284; Boeck. ! in Flora 62 (1879) 551, non Linn. 
Philippines, (Llanos); (444 Cuming); (Moseley). Luzon, (733, 734 
Loher); (6302 Elmer); (1133 Merrill). 
In warm countries almost throughout the World. An abundant species. 
12. Cyperus eleusinoides Kunth ! Enum. 2 (1837) 39. 
Umbel compound, rays long, unequal ; spikelets densely spicate ; glumes 
scarious at the tips, hardly distant. 
Miq. Fl. Nederl. Ind. 3: 270; Benth. FI. Austral. 7: 277; Hook. f. FI. Brit. 
Ind. 6: 608; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 212. Cyperus xanthopus 
Steud. in Flora 25 (1842) 595;'Cyp. 36 (pi. Japon excl.) 
Luzon, (728, 729 Loher). 
Abyssinia and the Dead Sea to Queensland. 
13. Cyperus Malaccensis Lam. 111. T (1791) 146. 
Stem stout, almost 3-winged at the top; leaves few, short; umbel 
compound, rather dense; spikelets spicate, linear; glumes obtuse, concave 
with incurved margins. 
Miq. Fl. Nederl. Ind. 3: 279; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 608; Hemsl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. 36 (1903) 214; Merrill, Philip. Journ. Sei. 1 (1906) Suppl. 1: 30. 
Cyperus odoratus Linn. ! Sp. PI. ed. 1, 46; ed. 2, 48; et hb. propr. pro parte. 
C. scoparius Decaisne in Nouv. Ann. Mus. Paris, 3 (1834) 359; Miq. Fl. Nederl. 
Ind. 3: 279. C. spaniphyllus Steud. ! in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip, heft 2, 62; 
Miq. 1. e. 267. C. difformis Blanco ! Fl. Filip. 32, non Linn. 
Philippines, (Llanos). Luzon, (Loher) ; (376, 4247 Merrill). Mindanao, 
(1337 Copeland). 
From the Persian Gulf to the Philippines and north Australia, 
14. Cyperus pilosus Vahl Enum. 2 (1806) 354. 
Spikes 1 to 2 in. long, the rhaehis minutely hairy; umbel simple or 
compound ; spikes often subdigitate. . 
