3190. |. — TXRIANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Cyperus. 
ges E aly bom | CY P ER US. 
dise ehaffy, bifariously imbricated. Coro? none. Seed em 
naked. 
Sect. lst, WU culumnar Culms. os 
1. C. setaceus. Linn. Sp. Pl.ed. Willd. 1.269. Retz. Obs. 5. p. 10. 
Culms setaceous, from two to three inches high; spike terminal, 
solitary, naked. — 
A native of Coromandel, appears and flowers _during the rainy ` 
season chiefly. 
© Q. C. mucronatus. Linn. Sp Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 273. Retz. Obs. 5. 10. 
Cuíms from six to. eight inches high, round, į incurved, half naked. 
Spikes lateral, sessile. | Zncolucre one-leaved, beides ihe conunüas 
tion of the culm. Seed oval, rounded. 
__A native of moist sandy places, over various parts of India. 
"Root creeping, invested in brown sheaths.—Culms half naked, issu- 
= singly from the root atsome small distance from each. other, neatly | 
round, ascending, from six to eight inches long; the lower half is in- 
volved in the aaah ‘of a single, short leaf. — Leaf sheathing , generally 
one to each culm, which is only about half its length —Head 
about an-inch and a half below the extremity of the culm, it 
consists of five or ‘six small, oval, ten or twelve-flowered spikes. - 
—Involucre one-leaved, aont as long as the spikes; -besides these, 
there are some. small, chaffy, calyx-like scales,— Seed naked, oval, 
compressed, white, 
S: 6, Witerals: Forst. dune 13. N. 48:777 yc 
-Culms erect, columnar, from eight to twelve inches long, naked; 
Shed of five or six sessile spikes beneath the Dub. iA 3 of the 
culm; Stigma bifid ; Seed oval, compressed, | : 
A native of Cooma | 
Root creeping, dark rusty. brown — Culms straight d uet 
erect, from eight to twelve inches high, round, and naked.— Leaves 
no other than a short sheath or two, embracing the base of each culm, 
