193  TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. B. Cyperus, 
16. C. capillaris. Kön. Mss. : 
Culm filiform, from one to two feet high, umbel of one sessile, and 
(two pedicelled umbellets. Involucre three-leaved, filiform, florets 
diandrous. Style two-cleft. Seed obovate, without angles. 
A native of moist pasture ground. | 
Root fibrous.— Cul;ns erect, from twelve to eighteen inches high, 
three-sided, filiform, three-fourths or more naked, smooth.— Leaves 
sheathing, generally two to each culm; the lower one short, the su- 
perior one as long as the culm, very slender and smooth. —Umbel 
small, compound, generally composed of one sessile, and two pe-- 
duncled umbellets, these are again composed of linear, many-flow- 
ered spikes. — Involucre three-leaved, filiform, the largest is longer - 
‘than the culm ; the shortest about an inch long, and the other be- 
tween the two.—Scales membranaceous, obtuse.—Stamens two.— . 
Style two-cleft.—Seed obovate, compressed, brown, pretty smooth, 
half hid in the rachis. ioco | 
17. C. compressus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1.989. Vahl. Enum. 
Pl. 9. 394. 
-Culms from six to ten inches high} shorter than the leaves, ue 
blunt. Umbel simple or compound. Involucre three-leaved. Scales 
daggered, Seed obcordate, triangular. 
Gramen cyperoides rarius, &c. Pluck, t. 192. X: ^i 
Beng. Chooncha. 
Teling. Salitunga. 
- Delights in a moist soil. : 
Root fibrous.— Culms erect, from six to ten inches high, two-thirds 
naked, three-sided, smooth; angles blunt.— Leaves numerous sheath- 
ing; many of them longer than the culms, smooth and glossy.—Um- - 
bel terminal, simple, or compound ; when compound the umbellets. 
are peduncled ; from one to three ; and consist of from three to siX, 
green, linear, sessile, many-flowered spikes.— Involucre three-leaved, 
smooth, the largest of them is nearly as long as the culm.—Scales 
acute.— Seed turbinate, three-sided , smooth, dark-brown colour. 
Obs. The upper flowers of the spike are incomplete. 
