jperus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 207 
Obs. In Bengal this plant, or one exceedingly like it, (for it differs 
from it only in having three stamens, the culm, leaves, umbels, 
scales, and seeds being the same) grows on the banks of the Ganzes 
and so low as frequently to be entirely under water during the high 
tides ; yet it thrives and helps to bind the banks of the rivers where 
it grows and is one of those plants that prevent their giving way 
so much to the rapidity of the streain as they otherwise would do. 
34. C. spinulosus. R. : 
Cuims fom three to five feet high, rigid. Umbel scarcely decom- 
pound; spikes long, and short-peduncled, globular, spikelets rigid, 
from three to four-tlowered ; involucre and involucels mareg 
Teling. Kurra-tunga. 
A large strong coarse species, grows in ditches and water courses, 
Root fibrous. —Culms erect, from two to five feet high, very rigid, 
‘obsoletely three-sided, smooth, four-fifths naked.— Leaves sheathing, 
length of the culm, rigid, striated, margins hispid.—Umbe terminal, 
decompound, from six to eight inches each way. Umbellets with pe- 
duncles of various lengths, composed of peduncled, globular heads, 
and these again of numerous small, sessile, linear, lanceolate, rigid, 
spinulous-pointed, from three to four-flowered spil.elets.— nvolu« 
tre from four to six-leaved, unequal, the largest being from two to 
three feet long, and the shortest about the same number of inches, 
margins hispid, like those of the leaves. Involucel from three to six- 
- leaved, length of the umbellets.— Scales linear. 
Obs. [have mot seen the pistil nor seed. It is a remarkably coarse 
species ; no animal eats it. 
-. 95. C. elatus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 987. Vahl. Enum. 2. 363. 
~~ Culms from six to twenty feet long, sharp-angled. Umbel scarce- 
ly decompound. Spikes all sub-sessile, linear, erect. Spikelets most 
humerous, alternate, from six to eighteen-flowered, anthers ending 
in a thread. Seeds oblong, three-sided. gm 
Beng. Gol-mulunga. 
Teling. Rakisha. 
