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ei^ 7C FRIAKDRIA MONOGTYNIA: cr 
at the bases three-sided, smooth i— Leaves/as in the other species — —— 
Umbel decompound, drooping, from six to twelve inches high. . Um- 
bellets one or two sub-sessile, and from four to eight with peduncles” 
of various lengths. Partial umbellets peduncled and composed of 
beautiful, linear, bowing, compound racemes of lanceolate; many- 
flowered, chesnut-coloured spikelets. — Involucre three- leaved, une- 
qual. Involucels, small, frequently only — scales.— Seed three” 
sided, smooth. ii 
Obs. i have seen small plants with the umbellets small, dense T 
and globular. m 
49. C. nudus. R. : 
Leafless, Culms from four to six feet high, three-cornered. thai 
bels super-decompound, naked. — Involucres, and involucels chaffy 5 
spikelets idee. ——— Seed Taming, compressed without an=- 
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. Beng. Goola-Methhi. T dé ones 
A native of low wet Peut over i Bep Flowers during the 
rains. oe 
‘Root perennial, somewhat tuberous.— Leaves no other than a 
short sheath or two, whick envelope the base of the culm, the up- 
permost one sometimes ends in a short ensiform: leaflet.—Culm _ 
- about five feet high, ‘naked, smooth, bright-green, three-cornered, | 
with the angles rounded. MEUM three or four, sub-lanceolate, : 
erect, about one-fourth thé length of the umbel.— Umbels decom- 
` pound and super-decompound, with the sub-divisions, and slender, - 2 
smooth, compressed peduncles of various length. — Spikelets. alter- F 
nate, subulate, of a bright brown colour, each bearing from. twenty Iu 
to thirty flowers.— Stamens peter — — Seed E A 
compressed, without angles. Hs 
Obs. This species is very like C. idm and about the same size, 
though I am informed, never used for mats, as that is. To know it 
| from. C. tegetum attend to the involucre, which in this is only about 
fnr. the length of the. umbel, but in that as long or longer. 
