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Cyperus. | CYPERACEAE, 215 
1. CG. tenellus Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 103.—A small densely tufted 
annual. Stems numerous, very slender, almost filiform, 1-3 in. high. 
Leaves few, much shorter than the stem, filiform. Spikelets 1-3 together, 
digitate, much flattened, oblong, obtuse, large for the size of the plant, 
1_1in, long; bracts 2, setaceous, one erect and continuous with the stem, 
the other much smaller. Glumes 10-25, regularly distichous, ovate, obtuse 
or mucronate, boat-shaped, conspicuously 5-9-nerved, varying in colour 
from almost white to red-brown. Stamens 1 or 2. Style-branches 3, 
linear. Nut rather more than 4 the length of the glume, elliptical, 
acutely trigonous, smooth—Hook. f. Handb. N Z. Fl. (1864) 745; Benth. 
Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 265; C. B. Clarke in Fl. Cap. vii (1897) 164; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 765. 
Norra Istanp: From the North Cape southwards to Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay, 
abundant. Sea-level to 1500 ft. November—December. 
he ent teed APntman  alawh.deathtfalleindiasanonsinatemnerate. Australia 
Stems 
shorter 
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vol. 57, p. 63. (Ckn. & Allan). née 
Cyperus vecetus, Willd. G: 
not native to N.Z. see T.N.Z.1. 
mn. 
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vol. 57, pe 64, (Ckn. & Allan). as 
fact / 
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be taken as such by any one unacquainted with its origin. en see G&S 
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Stems erect, simple below the inflorescence, leafy at the base. Inflores- 
cence of the same forms as in Cyperus. Spikelets oblong or linear, com- 
pressed ; rhachilla disarticulating above the two lowest empty glumes, and 
falling away in one piece, leaving a terminal rounded boss or knob. All 
other characters as in Oyperus. 
Species about 180, found in all tropical and subtropical regions, but not extending 
into Europe. The single New Zealand species is endemic. 
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1. M. ustulatus,C. B. Clarke MS.—Very robust, 2-4 ft. high. Stem 
smooth, striate, trigonous, din. diam, Leaves crowded at the base of the 
stem, long, keeled, coriaceous, spongy towards the base, 3-lin. broad ; 
