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Cyperus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. i =:205 
Ira. Rheed. mal. 19. p. 105. t. 56. does not very well agree with 
amy plant. : SAN , 
-. Gramen cyperoides, &c. Pluk. Almag £. 191. f. 7. is much 
more like this plant than the above-quoted plant of Van Rheede. 
& Beng. Bura-choocha. > ; ae : 
Is a native of moist, cultivated lands. ET 3 
_ Root fibrous.—Culms erect, from one-to two feet high, four-fifths 
naked, three-sided, sharp-angled.— Leaves sheathing, nearly thelen3th 
of the culm, keeled, smooth.—Umbe/ decompound, from two.to four 
inches high, umbellets from four to eight, one or two sessile, the 
test unequally peduncled ; partial umbellets lanceolate, raceme- 
like, being composed of alternate, linear, from six to twelve-flower- 
ed spikes.—Involucre from three to four-leaved, | the largesi. two or 
three times as loug as the umbel.—Scales imbricated, with mem- 
branaceous sides.— Style‘ two-cleft.—Seeds. three-sided, length of 
the scales. : 
Wes ci 
. 31. C. tnundatus. R. í 
—— Culins from two to four feet high, exactly triangular. Leaves as 
long as the«culms. uvolucre from four to five-leaved, one vei y long. 
Umbel decompound. Spikelets lanceolate. Stamens two. . Style 
two-cleft.. Seed obcordate, a little compressed. 
Benz. and Hind, Patee. c uide aaa ; 
~ Found in great abundance on the low banks of the Ganges and 
rivulets near Calcutta; where the tide rises high over it, it thrives 
most luxuriantly and helps much to bind, aud protect the banks 
from the rapidity of the water. ro 
Root jointed, creeping, stoloniferous, perennial.— Curs erect, 
from three to- four feet high, exactly three-sided, about as thick as 
