188° TRIANDRIA MONOGYNTA. ~ Cyperus, 
the umbel, sides and keel hispid. Umbellets and partial wm- 
bellets peduncled, composed of linear-lanceolate, yellowish ’ 
ype a Seed three-sided, smooth. 
Obs, Cattle are not fond of it, and it is onl y eaten occasion- 
ally by buffaloes. 
SECT. I. with a three-sided Culm. 
6. C.. dubius. Rottb, gram. 20. t. A, f. 5. Linn, sp. pl. ad 
Willd. 1, 273. 3 
Culm from six to twelve inches high. Head sceiah, 
roundish, sessile. Jnvolucre of four or five long leaves, some 
of them longer than the culm. 
_ Cyperus longus, Rumph, Amb. 6. p, 5,4. 2. f..1. 
C. kylling@oides, Vahl. enum, pl. 2, 312. 
TFeling. Tagadatunga. 
Beng. Chhota-gothoobi, ' 
This species in mach like Kyllingia nonocephale, aml. is, 
with. it, a native of shady, moist pasture lands. __. a, 
Root, a somewhat tuberous head, with many net-soloured 
capillary fibres. Culms erect, from six to twelve inches high, 
three-sided, smooth, the lower third or fourth part involved: 
in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves sheathing, radical, em- 
bracing the base of the culm, very smooth, many . of them 
longer than the culm, Head globular, size of a larg. cherry, 
composed of numerous, lanceolate, sessile, white-pointed. 
spikes. Involuere four or five-leaved, unequal, some of them — 
longer than the culm, Seed three-sided, pointed, dark rust-. 
coloured, smooth, 
Obs. Cattle eat it, 
7, C. monocephalus, R. 
~ Culms from twelve to eighteen inches high, poseiia: 7 one : 
minal, ovate, compound ; involucre, from three to four-. 
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