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CLXII. CYPERACE^. 
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Sea-sand plant, culms very short; umbel capitate 
or with long rays .... 
Culms tall slender; leaves narrow; rhizome short or o. 
Glumes very short, hardly longer than nut, 
yellow 
Glumes much longer than nut. 
Rachis hairy ..•••• 
Rachis glabrous. 
Glumes red; spikelets narrow; umbel con¬ 
densed • ■ j ■ ■ 
GlunTes silvery; spikelets broad 
Glumes yellowish; spikelets narrow; umbel 
simple 
Culms slender distant on a long rhizome, tuberous 
clt 1^3<SC 
Umbel simple, lax or dense; spikelets narrow, 
red ; waste ground inland 
Umbel dense; spikelets pale; seashores . 
Culms stout tall; rhizome long. 
Umbels large; glumes narrow, distant 
Umbels large; glumes broad blunt, close set. 
Leaves long . • • • .u * 
Leaves very short, nearly reduced to sheaths 
Tall leafy plants with large umbels decompound, 
no rhizome; glumes yellow. 
Spikes cylindric dense . . . . • 
Umbel lax; anthers not crested 
Umbel lax; anthers crested . . . ■ 
{9) C. radians 
(10) C. Iria 
(11) C. pilosus 
(12) C. habakensis 
(13) C. compressus 
(14) C. Zollingeri 
(15) C. rotundus 
(16) C. stoloniierus 
(17) C. distans 
{18) C, procerus 
(19) C. malaccensis 
{20) C. radiatus 
(21) C. digitatus 
(22) C. elatus 
(1) C. platvstylis Br. Prodr. 214; Clarke in Hook. fd. F.B.I. 
vi. 498; Joiirn. Linn. Soc. xxi. 117, t. i, figs. 7-9; Rtdl. Mat. 
iii. 63. C. pallidus Nees, Linnaa, ix. 284. , o • 
Culm stout triquetrous, 18 to 24 in. tall. Leaves 12 to 18 in. 
long *25 in. wide. Bracts serrulate on edge and keel, broad, 
about 8. Umbel 3 to 7 in. across, compound. Spikelets -50 in. 
long *12 in. wide. Glumes close imbricate, ovate mucronate, 
red ’about 40. Style shorter than nut. Nut nearly as long as 
glume, oblong acute with yellow corky angles. Hab. Rare, in nee- 
fields. Malacca, Ching. Negri Sembilan, Kwala Pedas (Ridley). 
Penang (Wallich). Distrib. Indo-Malaya, Australia. 
(2) C. castaneus Willd. Sp. PL i. 278; Roxb. FI. Ind. 1. 195 , 
Clarke in Hook. fd. F.B.I. vi. 598; fF 4 l. Mat. iii 63. 
A dwarf plant 2 to 6 in. tall, with tall tufted culms. Leaves 
shorter or as long. Umbel rays 5. sometimes reduced to i head. 
Bracts -5 in. long. Spikelets linear, -36 m. long. Glumes chest¬ 
nut, about 26, blunt with a long recurved point and a rib on each 
side. Nut oblong, half as long as the glume, sides parallel Hab. 
Very rare, Perak at Ulu Bera (Kunstler). Distrib. India, Cochin- 
china, Australia. , r. 
3 C. uncinatus Poir. Encycl. vii. 247; Ridl. Mat. m. (>4- 
C. cuspidatus H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. i. 204; Clarke in Hook, fd, 
F.B.I. vi. 59Q. 
Dwarf plant 2 to 6 in. tall. Umbels of 4 or 5 rays or con- 
