_ Cyperus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA,. 19} 
A native of Coromandel. wliderls 
Culns erect, straight, three-sided, leafy omc the nai 
from eight to twelve inches high. | Umbel terminal, simple, 
sessile, globular, composed of about twelve sessile, linear, 
diverging spikes, Involucre from two to three-leaved, the 
longest leaflet about as long as the umbel. Seales with long, 
acute, recurved apices. Stamina three. Style with a three- 
cleft apex. Seed obovate, three-sided, smooth, dark ash-co- 
loured. 
12. C. niveus. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 273. Retz. Obs, 
5. p. 12. 
Culms from five to eighteen inches high. Umbels or ra- 
ther heads, sessile, Tabotutts two-leaved. Style three-cleft, 
Seed three-sided. i tes 
A native of shady moist pasture land. 
Root creeping, fibrous. Culms erect, from five to ten ini 
high, mostly naked, three-sided, smooth, | Leaves surround- 
ing the base of the culm, sheathing, those that are nearest the 
root are little more than sheaths, those within are. nearly as 
long as the culm, and waved. Umbel terminal, simple, ses- _ 
sile, about an inch each way, composed of linear, many flow- 
ered, sessile spikes. Involucre two-leaved, length of om 
ume Seed three-sided. Bus sdxH) 
1. C. jemenicus, Linn, sp. pl. ed, Willd, 1. 281. 
_ Culms from two to-four inches high, obscurely three-cor- 
nered ; base bulbiferous, Umbels simple. Involucres and 
spikelets alternate. Scales acute. segues Eee three- 
sided, : iis gppnle= 
Pari-gaddi is the Telinga name of the pln and Pari. 3 
dumpa that of the roots. _ b. PsA? 
Nips. ohercticm astu - 
Gs cael elie ay Spacer tcleceah and enticty. poe 
surrounded with two, three, or four black and brown, longi- ; 
