~ 906 - FRIANDRIA MONOBYNIA. Cyperus.. 
: s erect, about a span long.— Spikelets sessile, diverging, 
lanceolate, rigid, obtuse.— Style two-cleft.— Seeds obcordate, a little 
: — smooth. 
se. C. Pree Rottb. gram. 31. t. 7. f. 3. Linn. Sp. Pl e 
Willd. 1. 984. 
Culms from three to four feet high, naked. Leaves scarcely any. 
Umbels decompound; involucre three or four-leaved ; involucels seia- . 
ceous. Spikelets filiform. Seeds oblong, compressed. . X 
Beng. Chumati Patee. a 
Is common on the banks of the Ganges, and serves, with C. inum- 
datus, the same useful purposes, though in an inferior degree. - - 
Root jointed, creeping, stoloniferous, perennial—Cudms erect, 
naked, smooth, three-sided towards the apex, sides concave, from 
two to four feet high, and about as thick as a goose quill. Leaves 
one or two, sword-shaped, very short, involving with their sheaths, 
the base of the culm.. Universal involucre three or four-leaved, very 
smooth, the longest twice the length of the umbel ; partial : minute, 
setaceous.—Umbel decompound, composed of one sessile umbel- 
let in the centre, and from four to eight spreading, compound ones 
-in the circumference, supported on fine, compressed peduncles 
of unequal lengths.— Spikelets filiform, from ten to twenty-flowered. 
— Scales obtuse.—Stamens three.— Seed. oblong, compressed. - 
Obs. Its naked, exactly three-sided culms, and scarcity of short 
leaves readily distinguish it from all the other species I have jene. 
scribed. C. tegetum has the angles rounded, and no leaves. 
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33. C. procerus. Rottb. gram. 99. t. 5. f 3. 
Culms from three to six feet high, angles sharp. Umbel decom- 
pound.  Involucres none ; spikelets alternate, linear, flowers ¢ dian- 
drous. Seeds obcordate, compressed, without angles. — 
Pota-pullu. Rheed. mal. 18. p. 93. t. 50. 
Is a native of moist vallies, rivulets, See amongst the moun- 
tains. | 
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