186 — : XRiAKDRIA HONOGYNIA. Kylingád. 
o. K. triceps. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 256. 
Culms from six to twelve inches high, three-cornered. Heads 
terminal, sessile, from three to six ; involucres three or four; i florets 
 diandrous ; ; Seed oblong, without angles. 
Mottenga. Rheed. Hort. mal. 19. p. 97. t. 59. 
A native of low shady pasture ground. 
Root somewhat tuberous, with capillary fibres.— C pide straight, 
from six to twelve inches high, smooth, naked, except at tle base, ob. - 
tusely three-sided ; angles, rounded. — Leaves sheathing, nearly as long 
as the culm, snióoth.— Head terminal, composed of from three to six 
sessile, oval, white spikes, the largest one is in the centre, the rest in 
the circumference.—Jnvolucre as in K. monocephala. — Stamens sel 
dom more than two.—Stigma two-cleft.— Seed oblong, much com- 
pressed, white, no angles. hs 
Obs. It differs from K. fimocepkela. not only in hand a com- 
pound bead but in being diandrous, with a bifid style, and oblong lan: 
ceolate seed. I have found luxuriant plants with more than ene 
foward the calyx, 
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S. K. umbellata. Lina. Sp. Pi. ed. Willd. 1. 257. Rottb. ame 
15. t. 4. f. 9. 
Culms from one to two-feet high, tiiéei iiid: umbel of disti 
and peduncled, cyliùdrical, ragged spikes, involucres — inves d 
Jucels none. Seeds three-sided, linear-oblong. E 
-Kol pullu. Rheed. Hort. mal. 12. t. 63. - 
© Mariscus umbellatus. Vahl. Enum. ÁN 2. 376." 
Beng. Bura-gothoobi. 
A native of wet or marshy places. ^s 
- Root tuberous, rust-coloured, with rust-coloured 1 fibres. "o 3 
‘erect, from one to two feet high, three-fourths naked, three-sided, 
smooth.— Leaves sheathing nearly asilong as the culm.—Umbel ter- 
minal, sessile, composed of sessile and peduneled, cylindrical spikes 
f numerous diverging divae heen ents many leased, ji 
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