ork 
: many-flowered. 
208 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cyperus. 
. 40. C. tegetum, R- 
litle culms from three to six feet high, angles founded 
umbel decompound. Jnvolucre as long, and longer than © 
the umbel ; izvolucels chaffy, Spikelets linear-lanced, altar: 
nate. Seed clavate, three-sided. 
- Hind..and Beng. Madoor-kati. 
Is common in ditches, borders of lakes, &c. in the vicinity 
of Calcutta during the rains. 
Root creeping under ground, perennial. Culms naked, 
generally from three to six feet high, obsoletely three-sided, 
smooth, Leaves no other than two or three sheaths embrac- 
ing the base of the culms. Umbei decompound; umbellets 
sub-sessile, and on peduncles of various lengths, sub-ereet. 
Involucre about four-leaved, one or two of them longer than * 
the umbel. Involucels minute. Spikelets alternate, linear- 
lanceolate, many-flowered. Seeds eliptically triangular. — 
Obs, Those elegant, useful, durable, large mats so com- 
mon.on the floors of rooms in and about Calcutta, are made 
of the culm of this plant. When green they are split into 
three or four pieces, which in drying contract so much as to 
bring the margins in contact, or to overlap’ each other; m 
_ this state they are woven. 
41. C. alopecuroidus, Rottb. agri 38. t. 8. 77 2, Vall 
enum, pl, 2. 368. 
A Culms from four to five feet high. Umbet dslesipniind’ 
re ‘three-leaved ; spies pease bp 3 
Wara-pulla. Rheed. Mal. 12. p. 77. a 42, 
Cyperus glomeratus, Linn, sp, pl. ed. Willd. 12. 277. és 
This is also a large species, and a native of the same places. — 
Root fibrous. Culms erect, from four to five feet high, 
except at the bases three-sided, smooth, Leaves as in the 
other species. Umbel decompound, drooping, from six to res 
_ ‘twelve inches high. Umbellets one or two sub-sessile, Lame a 
nee tp eeiniet seta oa ~~ 
