Cyperus, TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, | 209 
tial umbellets peduncled and composed of beautiful, linear, 
bowing, compound racemes of lanceolate, many-flowered, 
chesnut-coloured spikelets, Jnvolucre three-leaved, unequal. 
Envolucels small, frequently only perdi scales. Seed three- 
sided, smooth, 
Obs, I have seen small plants with the umbellets sina, 
dense and globular, ~ 
42, C. nudus, R. 
Leafless. Culms from four to six feet high, three-cornered. 
Umbels super-decompound, naked. Jailoleciins and involu- 
cels chaffy ; spikelets subulate, alternate. Seed oblong, 
compressed without angles. 
_ Beng. Goola-Methhi. rb 
A native of low wet places over Bengal. Flowers during 
the rains, | Lage 
Root perennial, somewhat tuberous. Leaves no other than 
a short sheath or two, which envelope the base of the culm, 
the uppermost one sometimes ends in a short ensiform leaflet. 
Culm about five feet high, naked, smooth, bright-green 
_ three-comered, with the angles rounded. Involucres thirée 
or four, sub-lanceolate, erect, about one-fourth the length of 
the umbel. Umbels decompound and super deabahipeniil : 
with the sub-divisions, and slender, smooth, compressed pe- 
duncles of various length. Spikelets alternate, subulate, of a 
bright brown colour, each bearing from twenty to thirty 
flowers. .Stamens three, Style three-cleft, Seed —_ 
compresied,; without angles. | : 
Obs, This species is very like C. tegetum, and about the « 
same sgsss though lam reprise never Dew for mats, as__ 
