Cyperus, TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 187 
is smaller, and always ascends in a curved direction ; in that 
the scales of the spike are acute, in this obtuse, in other res- 
pects they are very much alike, At present I am inclined. 
to think C. mucronatus of Vahl and Rottboel may be refer- 
red to this, consequently Willdenow’s C. mucronatus, sp. pl. 
Bi = includes these two species. 
A, C. nudus. R. 
~ Culm from three to four feet high, round, naked, intend 
intercepted. Leaves none; wmbel compound ; involucre 
chaffy. Stigma three-cleft. ‘Seed three-sided. 
A native of stagnating, or slowly running sweet water over. 
India, 
Root perennial, fibrous. Culms erect, round, naked, articu- 
lated, smooth, from three to four feet high, above as thick as a 
common large quill. Leaves no other than a rusty coloured. 
sheath or two embracing the base of each culm. Umbel ter- 
- Minal, generally compound, though sometimes decompound. 
Involucre several small, chaffy scales. Umbellets long, slen- 
der, peduncled, bowing, composed of from eight to twelve 
linear, sessile, rust-coloured spikes. Involucels like the invo- 
— Seed Pl oa three-sided, smooth, light brown, 
55 ©. elcid: R. : 
Culms from two to six feet high, round, tending to pee! 
gular at the top, naked. - Leaves none. Umbels decompound, 
with an involucre half its ——e Stigma three-cleft; seed 
three-sided. | 
Beng. Gola-methee. 
Teling. Godoo tunga kooda, 
_ This species is with the former a native of wet Rene © het 
Root perennial, toate, atienione poisined erect, from two 
eee iy ti - Umbels' Ppieetity iy diana Zs : a 
. und, erect, Involucre three-leaved, equal, pases: = : 
