Cyperus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 199 
‘the height of the plant, generally composed of one sub-sessile 
umbellet, and three or four, on naked, smooth, filiform pedun- 
cles, of different length, and these again composed of from 
four to twelve, most slender, long, filiform, many-flowered 
spikelets, Involucre three-leaved, the longest about thelength 
of the umbel, the other two shorter, all slender, and tapering 
_ to most acute points, Seales membranaceous. Stamens three. 
Style three-cleft, Seed three-sided. — 
~ Obs. Its naked delicate form, small and compound umbel, 
short slender leaves, and scanty involucre, immediately dis- 
tinguish it from all ue other Indian species I have Spe met 
bio 
26. C. tuberosus, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 281. a, 
gram, 28, t. 7. f. 1. Vahl. enum. pl. 2. 340. Par 
Root tuberous, Leaves linear, length of the culms, Um- 
bels compound, or decompound.- Jnvolucre  three- leaved, 
longer than the umbel. Style three-cleft. Seed Hea A ae 
sided. es 
This seems to me to be only a tuxtiriatit wba if so ide: 
of C. rotundus. It grows in the same places, the roots are tu- 
berous, &e, in short, can an “scarcely perceive any pees 
rae ae SES 5 Si 
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27. C. Dente: Linn. sp. pl, ed. Willd. 1. 284, ioate. 
gram, 30, t. 14. f. 1. Vahl. enum. pl. 2. 374, 
Culm from two to four feet high, sharp angled. Involu- 
ere three or four-leaved, much longer than the decompound 
~umbel. Spikelets alternate. Scales obtuse. — obcordate, 
three-sided. 2E tid : 
Teling. Gelleba-tunga. = ee Zh $8 
Grows in standing sweet water, ar 
Root iM im rector Crm ert, fom four 
| albeder’ thet vis Salis” idbply chia: 
a 
a inches each way. alse umbellets peduncled, oblong, 
~ Umbel terminal, decompound, from fourto 
