Cyperus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 193 
equal, some of them longer than the culm.— Seed three-sided, point- 
ed, dark rust.coloured, smooth. 
Obs. Cattle eat it. 
7. C. monocephalus. R- 
— Culms from twelve to eighteen inches high, straight; Head ter- 
minal, ovate, compound; Involucre, from three to four-leaved ; spikelets 
ovate. Style undivided. Seed three-sided, Sates on a spongy re- 
ceptacle. 
Beng. Gothoobi. pup T 
A native of low wet places over Tani Vidi ec c 
Root fibrous.—Culns straight, three-sided, nucon height 
from twelve to eighteen inches.— Leaves three, four, or five, inves. 
ting with their sheaths, the lower part of the culms straight and 
smooth, length various, the longest about as long as the culm. In- 
volucre, leaves several, diverging, of very unequal lengths, the long- 
est as long as the culm, and the shortest about an inch.— Heads 
terminal, composed of a larger one in the centre, and four or five 
smaller ones in the circumference, all rigidly sessile.— Spikelets ovate, 
incurved, ten or twelve-scaled, each spikelet embraced on the under 
Side by an ovate-cordate, smooth, dark brown, bracte.— Scales boat- 
Shaped, pointed ; keel greenish ; sides deep, polished, chesnut colour. 
—Stamens three. Style simple and undivided to the extremity. — 
Seed three-sided, elevated on a spongy whitish receptacle. 
Obs. The undivided style and spongy receptacle of the seed dis- 
tinguish this from all the other species I have yet found i in India. 
.. 8. C. diffusus. R. 
Diffuse, from two to four inches bigh. Heads MET. glomerate, 
sessile ; spikeletsincurved. Scales daggered. Involucre méy eOe 
‘Mulen-pullu. Rheed. Hort. mal. 12. p. 101. t. 54. — 
A native of moist pasture ground. l a 
. Root fibrous.—Culms three-sided, several, diffuse, from w 
four inches long, smooth, — the base leafy, and 
