Cyperus, © TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, o- SE 
very short, embracing the base of the culm. Umbel com- 
pound, or decompound, from one to two inches high ; um- 
bellets one or two sessile, and from two to eight on peduncles 
of various lengths; the highest sometimes bears a small par- 
tial umbellet. Involucre two-leaved, shorter than the umbel. 
Spikes lanceolate, chesnut-coloured, Flowers monandrous, 
Seeds white, short, three-sided, a little rough, 
30. C. Iria, Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 286. Vahl, enum, 
2. 360. . 
Culms from one to two feet high; angles sharp; umbels de- 
compound, shorter than the involucres; spikelets alternate ; 
flowers rather distinct; scales cabricted: Seeds obuvaige 
‘angular. | | | 
Tra, Rheed, Mal. 12. p. 105, t. 56. Gow. not very well 
agree with my plant. 
Gramen cyperoides, &c. Pluck. Almag. t. 191. ff 7.is- 
much more like this plant than the peers plat, of Ae 
Rheede, | 
Beng. Bura-choocha. 
Is a native of moist, cultivated innde: 
Root fibrous. Culms erect, from one to two feet high, 
four-fifths naked, three-sided, sharp- angled. Leaves sheath- 
ing, nearly the length of the culm, keeled, smooth, Umbel. 
ieee pond. from two to four inches high ; umbellets from. 
four to eight, one or two sessile, the rest som y peduncled ; 
partial umbellets lanceolate, raceme-like, being composed of 
alternate, linear, from six to twelve-flowered spikes. Invo- 
lucre from three to four-leaved, the largest two or three times, 
aslong astheumbel. Scales jiabiriestod: with membrai “id 
oun eieden: Style two-cleft, Seeds Uncoated eae z 
cals. 
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ie from two to ier feet high, aly triangular | 
Leaves 28 long as the culms, Enpotucrs from fone to fal ; a 
