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203  "TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. —— Cyperus; 
in very luxuriant plants, sometimes decompound, from two to three 
inches each way. Unmbellets from two to eight, all having peduncles 
“of from one-fourth of an inch to two inches long.— Involucre general- 
Jy three-leaved, unequal, smooth, the largest is only a little longer 
than the utnbel.—Spikes linear, sub-sessile.— Serd obsoletely eis. 
sided: brown, a little rugose.. 
Obs. Cattle eat it. Hogs are remarkably fond of the roots. Meo 
and powdered they are used as a prefume at the weddings of the na- 
tives. Itis by far the most troublesome weed we have in our gardens, 
- there is uo extirpating it as every little bit of the root grows rea - 
dily. . 
25. C. panic R. 
Culms from three to four feet high, sub-rotund at the base, three» 
. cernered above. Leaves few. Umbel compound and decompound. 
: Spikelets filiform, many-flowered. Seeds See seer. 
Beng. Nagur-Mootha. 
"Ihis most delicate, tall, slender species, I have only found in 
low wet places, in the vicinity of Calcutta. 
Root somewhat tuberous, with many dark-coloured villous fibres. 
—Culms naked, except at the base, straight, generally three or four 
feet high, slender, tapering much, toward the base nearly round, 
becoming more and more three-sided, till they are acutely so at the 
umbel.— Leaves one or two at the base of each culm, slender, about 
` one third the length of the culm.—Umbel compound and decom- 
pound, very smail for the height of the plant, generally composed 
of one sub-sessile umbellet, and three or four, on.naked, smooth, 
filiform peduncles, of different length, and these again composed of : 
from four to twélve, most slender, long, filiform, many-flow 
spikelets.— fnzolucre three-leaved, the longest about the length of the 
umbel, the other two shorter, all slender, and tapering to most acute 
points.— Scales membranaceous.— Stamens map erc three 
— Seed ihree-sided. — ; 
Qis. {ts naked delicate form, smal and compound umbel, short 
