200 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cyperus. 
20. C. pumilus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 282. Rottb. gram. 
99. t. 9. f. 4. Vahl. Enum. Pl. 2. 336. : 
Culms about six inches high, angles blunt. Umbels compound; 
umbellets sub-globular. Spikelets, Scales daggered. 
Delights in a moist soil. : 
Root fibrous.— Culms erect, six inches high, half naked, obsolete- 
ly three-sided, smooth, angles rounded.— Leaves sheathing, shorter 
than the culm.—Umbel compound, umbellets from three to six, shorter ` 
or longer peduncled, globular, composed of ten or twelve linear, ma- 
ny-flowered spikes.—Invoducre three or four-leaved, unequal, the 
largest as long as the culm. Scales acute. 
91. C. cruentus. Lian. Sp. Pi: ed. Willd. 1. 975. Rottb. gram. 
21. t. 5. f. 1. x : 
Culms three-sided, from sixto twelveincheslong. Leaves sub-radi- 
cal, umbel compound, involucre three or four-leaved. Scales obtuse, 
flowers diaudrous. ' Style two-cleft. Seed round and smooth. 
A native of low pasture land all over Bengal, &c. where it is found 
growing in tufts during the rainy season. - Like most of this natural 
order. 
Obs. Cattle rarely eat it, except when pressed by hunger. 
99. C. incurvatus. R. : 
Culms triangular, base leafy, incurvate. Umbel compound. , Invo- 
lucres two or three, incurvate. Spikes needle-shaped, inc 
Scales oblong, obtuse. Stigma three-cleft. — — N-r-- a. 
A native of the moist banks of the Ganges. Flowers: during the 
cool season. ' ji | 
Roots creeping, stoloniferous, with dark-coloured fibres.— Leaves : 
ensiform, polished, shor'er than tbe.culms.— Culms slightly incurv 
ed, leafy round the base, triangular, with sharp angles, concave 
Sides, and from one to two feet high.— Jnvolucre two; OF "three*. 
leaved, incurved, one of them two or three times longer than ae | 
umbel—Umbel compound, spikes needle-shaped, incurved.— 
