206 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Cyperus 
tate, linear ; spikelets diverging, manaar cress scales with 
long recurved points. 
A middle sized species; grows in satay places, ditches 
&e..: 
- Root, a somewhat ‘hice head with many fibres. Culm 
erect, from one to six feet high, mostly naked, smooth, three- 
sided. Leaves sheathing as in the other species, their mar-— 
gins slightly armed: with minute prickles, Umbel compound — 
or decompound, from two to four inches high. _Umbellets 
sessile, and peduncled, composed of erect, compound spikes, 
of small diverging, linear, acute, from four to six-flowered 
spikelets. Involucre many-leaved, unequal, most: of them 
longer by far than the umbel, margins armed like the leaves. 
Involucel many-leaved, length of the umbellets. Seed three- 
sided, oblong, with grooved sides, 
Obs. In Bengal I have met with this species six feet + high, 
with a daconipeagd umbel, a foot or more’every way, and 
with from twelve to twenty-four flowers to the spikelets, the 
culm between round and three-sided, and im the largest al. 
most entirely round. 
' 88. C, verticillatus. R. : 
Culms four feet high, three-cornered, leafy at the base. Um- 
bel decompound; involucre many-leaved ; involucels filiform, 
spikes of the umbellets verticelled;’ ‘spikelets. ‘anceolate. 
eles with a hemes ee Seed Tinea, oblong, three-sided. — 
 Besad anip ‘ie’ rains, in n wet low eer the vig 
of Calcutta. 
' Root perennial, somewhat tuberous, with numerous datk:: oe 
coloured, thick, spongy fibres. Culms naked, except just at 
the base, from two to six feet high, and about as thick as a 
stout quill, absolutely thee sido smooth, shining, deep 
green, Leaves, one, two, or three at the base ofeach culm, 
and: about thes same hengthy keeled, somewhat, spe ve ee 
