186 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. — Cyperus. 
» Culms from six to eight inches high, round, incurved, half- 
naked. Spikes lateral, sessile. Involucre one-leaved, besides 
the continuation of the culm. Seed oval, rounded. 
-»A native of moist sandy places, over various parts of 
. India. 
Root creeping, invested in brown sheaths. Culms half 
naked, issuing singly from the root at some distance from 
each other, nearly round, ascending, from six to eight inches 
long;, the lower half is involved in the sheath of a single, 
short leaf. Leaf sheathing, generally one to each culm, 
which is only about half its length. Head about an inch 
and a half below the extremity of the culm, it consists of five 
_ or six small, oval, ten or twelve-flowered spikes. Jnvolucre 
one-leaved, about as long as the spikes; besides these there 
are some small, chaffy, calyx-like scales, Seed na a : 
compressed, white. ponds 
- 3. C. lateralis, Forst. descript. 13. N. 28. | 
Culms erect, columnar, from eight to twelve inches long, 
~ naked ; > head of five or six sessile spikes beneath the straight 
apees of the culm ; stigma bifid; seed oval, compressed. — 
- A native of Coromandel. 
Root creeping, dark rusty brown. Cudms straight and per- 
fectly erect, from eight to twelve inches high, roundand naked. 
Leaves no other than a short sheath or two, embracing the 
base of each culm. Spikes sessile, five or six, forming a 
small head on one side of the culm about an inch and a half 
below its apex. Involucre, a minute, subulate leaflet imme- 
diately under the spikes, and of the same length with them. 
Scales of the spikes numerous, ovate-oblong, white, smooth 
and rather obtuse, Stamina three. | Stigma bifid, Seed 
oval, flat on the inside, and convex on the preemie lead-co- 
jour or grey, and smooth, 
| see This differs from the plant which I coli J to vihe 
us of Retz. fasc..5. p.10. in being perfectly 
erctand destitute offline; whereas tat species hs eaves ey 
