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Credit: Contributions to the botany of India / By Robert Wight. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Contributions to the botany of India / By Robert Wight. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![non nisi in dorso trinerves, in latere autem altero luteae, in altero pallide lu¬ tescentes. 50. C. verticillatus (Roxb.:) culmo folioso trigono, umbella decomposita ct supradecomposita, spiculis spicatis confertis lineari-subulatis 8-9-floris brevibracteolatis spicisque partialibus infimis patentissimis, squamis ovatis obtusiusculis cum mucrone dorso 7-nervibus lateribus luteis, involucellis li¬ nearibus umbellas subaequantibus, involucri polypliylli foliolis plerisque um¬ bellam superantibus foliisque lato-linearibus margine sermlato-scabris. — Roxb.fi. Ind. 1. p. 206; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 209 (exci, syn.) ; JV. ab E. in herb. Royle. cyp. n. 12.-In Peninsula Ind. or.; Roxburgh. Nepala; Royle. Squamee spicularam pro spiculse magnitudine sat magnse, alternae, arcte imbricatae, apicibus erecto-patulis. Spicula 3^-4 lineas longa. [In tabula ejus stirpis picta Roxburghiana (in ccet. mere. Ind. or. mus. t. 1819) radii universales apice spicas 5-8 cylindraceas imbricatas unciam lon¬ gas verticillatas patentes subsessiles gerant: e centro umbellulae seu verti¬ cilli oritur aut spica unica erecta subsessilis caeteris similis, aut radii 1-2 spi¬ cas subaequantes apice oligo- (2-8-) staebyi; spiculae adpressae lanceolatae 8- 12-florae lineam longae. Inflorescentia itaque diversissima differt a C. venusto, nec plantam supra a Neesio descriptam esse Roxburghianam credere possum. —Arn.] § 9. Caryopsis trigona, stylo trifido. Squamee spicularam obtusae, caryopsim aequantes. Spiculae lineares, laxae, capitatim aut digitatim dispositae, um¬ bella composita decompositave.—Irioidei, Lindi. 51. C.parvifiorus (Vahl:) umbella decomposita, radiis universalibus apice cymosis aut abbreviatis fastigiatis, spiculis spicatis alternis ovalibus obtusis tri-quinquefloris, squamis obovatis infra apicem obtusissimum retusumve mu¬ cronatis caryopsim aequantibus, stylo trifido, caryopsi triquetra, involucri subpentaphylli foliolis ternis foliisque linearibus elongatis margine serrulato- scabris, culmo trequetro.—«; umbella triquetro.—/3; umbella propter radios abbreviatos contracta, quasi e spicularam fasciculo constante.—Wight. eat. n. 1840.—C. parvifiorus, Vahl. en. 2. p. 352; R. et Sch. s. v. 2. p. 210.—C. umbellatus, Roxb. fi. Ind. 1. p. 205 ; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 208 (nec Burm.) ; IV. ab E. in cyp. Royl. n. 12.—Cyperus, Wall. cat. n. 3860. c (fide Arn.).-Pe¬ ninsula Ind. or.; Wight. Nepalia; Royle. Similis C. Iriae, praesertim quod ad squamas attinet obtusas, infra apicem mucronatas oblique 5-nerves latere flavicantes ; sed differt spiculis parvis al¬ ternis distantibus in spicas angustas fasciculatim subumbellatas dispositis. [C. umbellatus, Roxb. (in ccet. mere. Ind. o. mus. tab. 729) spiculae squa¬ marum forma et longitudine, aliisque multis notis valde differt. Plantam a Royleo lectam ignoro, at Wightiana C. Iriae nimis affinis est, et ex eadem ra¬ dice spiculas tam plurifloras quam paucifloras profert.—Arn.] 53. C. Iria (Linn.:) umbella supradecomposita, radiis spicatim compositis, spiculis imbricatis oblongo-linearibus pallidis plurifloris, squamis obova¬ tis obtusis submucronulatis oblique 3-5-nervibus caryopsin aequantibus, ca¬ ryopsi triquetra mucronulata, culmo triquetro, foliis linearibus laevibus cau¬ lem subaequantibus.—Linn.; Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1. p. 287 ; Link. hort. Ber. 1. p. 308; Roxb. fi. Ind. 1. p. 201; {ed. Wall.) 1. p. 204; Presl. rei. Haenk. 3. p. 174; Wight. cat. n. 1841.—Cyperus, Wall. cat. n. 3360.—C. Santonici, Rottb. gram. p. 41. t. 9./. 1.—Rheed. Mal. 12. t. 56 ; Pluk. t. 191./. 7.—/3; umbella rigidula contracta.—C, chrysomelinus, Link. h. Ber. 1. p. 305.—y, subtilis; culmo 4-6 poli, longo gracili, foliis involucrisque filiformibus, umbella parva contracta ovali aut obovata.—Wight. cat. n. 1841. b.—Cyperus, Wall, cat n. 3361.-«; Manila insula. Cinna, ad Macao; Vachell. Peninsula Ind. or.— 5 ; in hortis colitur, semine e Nepalia adlato.—y; in Mysore ; Wight.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297023_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
