
          Cyperus pauciflorus nov. sp. [nova species] 
133 & 131 & 134

Plant 6 to 12 inches high. Root tuberous. 
Leaves clustered at beene, shorter than the 3 angled
culm. Umbels simple, erect, 4 to 6 rayed,
with the central one sessile, shorter than the
3 leaved involucre, spikelets linear,
2 ranked, spreading & somewhat reflexed
2-3 flowered, ter uppermost aberteri.
Scales obtuse, mucronate, compressed,
keeled, nerved, reddish brown, points
of ter uppermost scale spreading or recurved 
after apex. Style 3 cleft. Nut oblong
3 angled, acute.

Near C. repens [Cyperus repens] & C. lutescens [Cyperus lutescens]
but differing in the small number of florets
& in the scales & nuts.

April 30th 1869

On mixed prairie & chaparal, near
Nueces Bay, about 6 miles north 
of Corpus Christi
Texas

HW Ravenel

        