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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Contributions to the botany of India / By Robert Wight. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![caryopsi obovata mucronata plano-convexa punctulato-striata, involucro uni¬ versali monophyllo erecto culmum continuante foliisque complicato-filiformi- bus margine scaberrimis, culmo filiformi rigido irregulariter quadrangulari basi folioso.—Cyperus, Wall. eat. n. 8324. a, b.-In Nepalia et Ava; Wallich. Ex affinitate quidem est C. mucronati et lateralis, sed spicularam indole et situ longe distat. 5. C. stramineus (N. ab E.:) spiculis spicatis imbricatis in spicam simplicem geminasve oligostachyas dispositis lanceolatis utrinque convexulis totis pal¬ lide flavescentibus multifloris, squamis ovatis mucronato-acutis lsevibus dorso tri carinatis, stylo bifido, caryopsi lenticulari marginata rugulosa, involucri 2- 3-phylli foliolis umbella longioribus foliisque lineari-filiformibus apice sca¬ bris, culmis incurvis geminis, altero triquetro, altero compresso hinc canali¬ culato.—Cyperus, Wall. cat. n. 3320.-In Silhet; Wallicli. 6. C. pumilus (Linn.:) umbelloe compositae radiis strictis, spiculis in spicas ovatas confertis reflexo-patentibus oblongis compressiusculis 8-18-floris, squamis ovatis latere pallidis nervosis carina viridibus mucronatis mucrone patulo, stylo bifido, caryopsi obovata compressa retusa punctulata, involucri 3- 5-phylli foliolis 2-3 umbella longioribus latiusculis planis caulinisque cul¬ mum aequantibus aut superantibus laevibus, culmo basi folioso triquetro laevi, radice fibrosa.—Linn. amoen. acad. 4. p. 302 ; sp. pl. ed. 2. p. 69 (exci. syn. Pluken.) ; R. et Sch. s. v. 2. p. 188. n. 92 (exci, omnibus synon. praeter Lin- neanum) ; Wight. cat. n. 1808.—C. membranaceus, Vahl. en. 2. p. 330; R. et Sch. I. c.—Cyperus, Wall. cat. n. 3336. c ? (ex Arnott).-Peninsula Indiae orientalis ; Wight. Yerba Linnaei rem acu tangunt: similis Cypero compresso, sed brevior ; dis¬ tinctus : glumis minus imbricatis et apice mucronatis; spiculae vix alternae, fere digitatae.—Spiculae 8-10 in summitate radiorum ita spicatim approxima- tae, ut fere capitulum constituant, 3-4 lineas longae, lineas latae, 7-10 florae; inferiores reflexae, saepe geminatae. Squamae imbricatae, mucrone viridi patulo, lateribus late albo-membranaceis nervis ternis incurvis prominulis; carina viri¬ dis, nervuloso-striata; mucro validus, viridis, obtusius culus. Stamina duo. Caryopsis pallide brunnea, compressa, retusa, punctulato-striata. Radii prae¬ ter umbellulam sessilem 4-5, quorum longior 2-pollicaris. Involucri folium longius 6 poli, longum, duas lineas latum, incurvum. Folium radicale in nostro unum, culmum aequans, paulo angustius; omnia folia laevia plana, aut complicato-carinata. Culmus in nostro haud strictus, basi incurvus, vix pedalis. [Huic etiam folia tam radicalia quam involucri planiuscula et ad speciem flaccida, et subpatula: radii umbellae porro sunt patuli. C. strictus autem Roxb. (fl. Ind. 1. p. 200; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 203, vel C. rigidus, Roxb. in coet. mere. angi. Ind. or. mus. tab. piet. 721) differre videtur culmis foliis angustis radicalibus et involucralibus atque umbellae radiis, rigide ac strictim erectis : discrimen tamen aliud vix ullum indicare possum. C. pumilo, Linn., valde affinis est C. pumilus, Roxb. (C. flavescens, Roxb. in coet. mere. I. O. mus. tab. 717), nec forsan differt.—Arn.] 7. C. pulvinatus (N. et M.:) spiculis globoso-capitatis lanceolatis compres¬ sis multifloris pallidis, capitulis solitariis aut aggregatis, squamis late ovatis ex apice obtuso patulo brevimucronatis dorso quinquinervibus, rachilla com¬ pressa foveolis bifariam insculpta, stylo bifido, caryopsi obovata truncata com¬ pressa utrinque convexula punctulis exasperata, involucri triphylli foliolis binis umbellam superantibus foliisque linearibus angustis culmo longioribus lmvibus, culmo humili triquetro.—/3; culmis humillimis, pulvinatis.—N. et M. in Mey. it. ined.; Wight. cat.n. 1809.—Cyperus, Wall. cat. n. 3312.—C. punc¬ tatus, Roocb.fl. Ind. 1. p. 193; (ed Wall.) 1. p. 197 (ex Wall. cat. L. n. 3312, et Arn. in litt. tab. pictam Roxb. in coet. mere. Ind. or. mus. n. 712 citante). —Peninsula Ind. or.; Roxburgh ; Wight.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297023_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
