Cyperus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA,. 207 - 
short, sharp, aciculz, pointing forwards. _Umbel, compound 
and decompound. Umbedlets many on smooth somewhat an- 
. gular peduncles of various lengths, composed of from five to 
eight cylindric, spreading spikes in a verticel, with an erect, 
sessile, simple or pedicelled. compound one in the centre. 
Spikelets most numerous, imbricated, lanceolate, from eight 
to. twelve-flowered. Involucre many-leayed, some of them 
nearly as long as the culm, and like the radical leaves keel- 
ed and armed on the margins, Involucels scarcely so long 
as their respective umbellets. Scales of the spikelets boat- 
shaped, with membranaceous margins, and sharp thickened 
points. Stamens three. Seed oblong, obsoletely three-sided. 
Obs. This, species comes near Rottboel’s Cyperus alope- 
. curaidesy,. 
389. C.. distans. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 288. Yahi. 
enum. pl, 2, 362. . 
Culms about three feet high, ikea eccghaedh Umbel ie 
compound, with the involucre and involucels many-leaved ; 
spikelets linear, alternate ; lowers distant, wih obtuse scales. 
Seeds oblong, three-sided. pine - «1 
C, elatus. Rotib.'gram. 37. t. 10... 
Beng. Panee-mulunga. 
‘It is a native of wet places around Samulcota. 
Root fibrous. Culms erect, two feet high, four-fifths or 
more naked, three-sided, smooth; angles blunt, Leaves from 
two to four, embracing the base of the culm, and nearly as 
long, sheathing, deeply grooved above, and keeled below, 
smooth. Umbel decompound, from four to six inches high. 
Umbellets some sessile, and from four to eight, with erect pe- 
duncles of unequal lengths. Partial umbellets oblong, ra- - 
crane ee: being Ray aah et alternate , needle-like, diverging 
