200 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, - . Cyperus, 
spreading, composed of alternate, sessile, lanceolate, from 
twenty to thirty-flowered spikes, Tnwoluere three or. four- 
leaved, very unequal, the largest being from one to two feet 
long, and the shortest about one or two inches, Scales obtuse, 
apex often emarginate and membranaceous. Seeds three-sid- — 
ed, obovate. 
28. C. sérictus. R. 
Culms about twelve inches high, stiff and straight, shorter 
than theleaves; angles sharp. Umbel decompound, straight; 
flowers diandrous. Seeds obovate, compressed, without 
~ angles, | 
Delights in a moist uncultivated ca. 
Root fibrous. Culm straight, rigid, about a foot high, 
obtusely three-angled, three-fourths naked, smooth. Leaves 
mostly radical, sheathing, many of them longer than the 
culm, erect, rigid, much keeled, smooth, Umbel erect, linear, 
thin, sometimes decompound, though in general only com- — 
pound, Umbellets, one or two sessile; and from three to — 
eight with peduncles of unequal lengths; the largest pedun- 
cles are compound. Jnvolucre from three to five-leaved, 
very unequal; the largest nearly as long as the culm, the, 
smallest not more than an inch long. Spikes sessile, lanceo- 
late in small plants, in large ones linear. Stamens two.. Style 2 
two-cleft. Seed compressed, obcordate. Te ae 
29, C flavidus. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd.1. 279, Retz. Obs, | 
5, 13. Vahl. enum. pl. 2.334, egies 
Culms from six to eight inches high, generally eral ‘ 
than the leaves. Umbel decompound, Jonger than the in- 
volucre ; wmbellets globular ; spikelets crowded ; flowers mo-. _ 
oii Seeds obcordate, three-sided. 
This is a small delicate species, a native of moist pleess on 
the coast of Coromandel. oe 
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