ae TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cyperus, 
it delights in a moist sandy soil, spat it grows ee 
every where. 
Root tuberous, with filiform fibres ; tubers about the size 
of filberts or acorns, of irregular deri; outwardly a dark 
brownish rust colour ; inwardly firm, tender, white, and very 
fragrant. Culms erect, from one to two feet high, naked, three- 
sided, smooth, with the angles rounded. Leaves radical, or 
only investing the base of the culm, sheathing, shorter than the 
culm, smooth, glossy. Umbels terminal, compound in very 
luxuriant plants, sometimes decompound, from two to three 
"inches each way. Umbellets from two to eight, all having pe- 
~ duncles of from one-fourth of an inch to two inches long. 
Involucre generally three-leaved, ‘unequal, smooth, the larg- 
est is only a little longer than the umbel, Spikes linear, sub- 
sessile. Seed obsoletely three-sided, brown, a little rugose. 
Obs. Cattle eat it. Hogs are remarkably fond of the roots. 
Dried and powdered they are used as a perfume at the wed- 
dings of the natives. It is by far the most troublesome weed 
we have in our gardens, there is no extirpating it, as every 
little bit of the root grows readily. 
25. C. cree, R, sis 
Culms from three to four feet ih, ‘eased at ‘he jon 
three-cornered above. Leaves few. Umbel compound and de- 
compound, Spikelets filiform, many-flowered, Rents three- 
sided. 
Beng. Nagur-Mootlia. | ee bake oem 
~ This most delicate, tall, slender species, Thave aly found 
in low wet places, in the vicinity of Calcutta, _ 
Root somewhat tuberous, with many dark-coloured villous 
fibres. Culms naked, except at the base, straight, generally 
three or four feet high, slender, tapering much, toward the 
base nearly round, becoming more and more three-sided, till 
pelea umbel, Leaves one or two at the 
mbel compound and decompound very sal fi 
