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195 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cyperus. — 
top, naked. Leavesnone. Umbels decompound, with an involucre ! 
half its height. Stigma three-cleft; Seed three-sided. 
Beng. Gola-methee. 
Teling. Godoo tungz kooda. _ . 
This species is with the former a native of wet places. 
_. Root perennial, creeping, fibrous.—Cudms erect, from two to six 
feet high, round, smooth, naked, except at the base, which 1s embra- 
ced by three or four sheaths.—Leaves no other than the sheaths 
just mentioned.—Umbels generally decompound, erect.— Iuzolucre 
three-leaved, equal, shorter than the umbel, sides and keel hispid, 
—Unmbellets and partial umbellets peduncled, composed of linear- — 
lanceolate, yellowish spikes. Seed three-sided, smooth. 
— Obs. Cattle are not fend ofit, and itis only eaten occasionally 
by buffaloes. | 
— Sect. ed, with a three-sided Culm. 
6. C. dubins. Rottb. gram. 20. t 4. f. 5. Linn, Sp. Pl.ed. Willd. 
1.973. 
Cuim from six to twelve inches high. Head terminal, rouse 
dildo. Involucre of four or five long leaves, some of them longer 
than the culm, & 
Cyperus longus, Rumph. amb. 6. p: 5. 1. 9. f. 1. AC 
C. kyllingeoides. Vahl. Enum. Pi. 2. 319. 
« Teling. Tagada tunga. 
__ Beng. Chhota-gotboob?, > . ! 
"This species is much like Kyllingia mouocephala, and is with it it 
a native of shady, moist pasture lands. 
Root, a somewhat tuberous head, with many utei b 
dary fibres.—Culms erect, from six to twelve inches high, three-side - 
, ved, smooth, the lower died or fourth part involved iu the sheaths of ; 
the leaves.— Leaves sheathing, radical, embracing the base of the 
culm, very smooth, many of them longer than the culm.- — Head glo- 
bular, size of a large cherry, composed of humerous, lanceolate, 
sessile, white-pointed spikes.—Incolucre four or five-leaved, 
