Cyperus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 205 
sessile and from eight to ten peduncled, composed of erect, 
Imear, short-pedicelled, compound spikes, of simple, sessile, 
lanceolate, from six to ten-flowered spikelets which surround 
every part of the compound spikes, * Involucre three-leaved, 
with some smaller within these three, margins and keel as in 
the leaves. Involucels small, one-third the length of the 
umbellets, Scales membrane-bordered, acute. Filaments 
three, membranaceous. .Anthers ending in a thread. Seeds 
three-sided, 
36. C.. vaibetdites, Vahl, enum. pl. 2. 362. 
Culms from four to six feet, blunt-angled. Umbel de- 
compound ; spikes all sub-sessile, linear,spreading ; spikelets 
numerous, alternate, from three to four-flowered. Seed 
elliptic, three-sided, ‘ 
Teling. Pedda shaka. pee 
A large species, growing in standing fresh weirs, ide os 
Root fibrous. _ Culms erect, from four to six feet high, 
pretty ‘smooth, naked, except at the base, obsoletely three- 
sided, angles rounded, sides hollowed. Leaves mostly radi- 
_ cal, sheathing, the longest of them about as long as the culm. 
Umbel decompound, spreading, about six inches each way, 
Umbellets, two or three sub-sessile, and from five to ten on 
pretty long peduncles of unequal lengths ; they are compos- 
ed. of small partial, short-pedicelled umbellets of three to six 
linear compound spikes, composed of numerous, small, ses- 
sile, from three to four-flowered, simple spikelets, Involucel 
from three to four-leaved, of the length of the umbellets, 
_ Involucre from three to six-leaved, unequal ; the longest from 
two to three feet, the gacnabrousas inches. | 
23 ; t high. Umbel Seka pola, fas. 
| igi, “ frecbheare aud seteldsen many-leaved ; spikes digi- 
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