Cyperus, TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 185 
tains. It may be referred to Vahl’s paints enum, pl. 
251220; § su hueden 
Culms erect, three-sided, leafy, jee cate from fourto 
five feet high, angles sharp, between the joints fistulous. Leaves 
of the root as long as the culm, smooth, except that the mar- 
gins are a little hispid, slender considering their great length, 
those of the culm from five to eight, sheathing, shorter, than 
those of the root. Umbels the terminal: one decompound, 
those only from the exterior axills compound. Jnvolucre of 
the terminal umbel, from three to four-leaved, about as long 
as the umbel, leaf-like ; the axillary umbels have no involucre, 
or, at most, a very trifling one. lowers’ sub-solitary, ches- 
nut-coloured, Calyx none, Corol; petals four. Style un- 
divided, with a permanent conical base, Stigma entire, 
acute. Bristles, six permanent ones surrounding the germ. 
Seed a little compressed, crowned with a large’ — 
spongy, conical body, the base of the style. 
Obs. There is frequently a very slender male flower with. 
in the large or inner glume of the corol; it consists of ‘one 
glume or scale, and three stamens. The a coarse 
i fF nates ; s 
yoke iors Pp atest 
CYPERUS. 
- Glumes chaffy, bifariously imbricated. Corol none. Seed 
one, naked, , 
SECT. I. with culumnar Culms. fed 
1. C, setaceous, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd, 1. 269. Retz. Obs. 
5. p. 10. Culms setaceous, from two to slarpe hen ‘highs 
spike terminal, solitary, naked. 
_A native of es epee tin flowers = ding the 
2.6. Creche ee pled. wind. 1 1. 273. Ret ee 
Obs, 5. 10. an maggie 
