-iG2 IIORTUS JASIAICENSIS. sedges 



3. ril.lFORM.'S. FILIFORM. 



Cuhn three-sided, naked, filiform; leaves setaceous, spikes terminal, sessile, 

 crowded, round-subulate. Sw. 



4. CONFERTUS. CLOSE. 



Culm raked; umbel simple, leafy; ppikelets ovate, conglomerate ; glumes-re- 

 curved, and pointed ;.t the tip. Sw. 



5. VISCOSE'S. CLAMMY. 



. subtcres maritimus, spicillis compreisisconglobatis 

 et radialis.- Browne, p. 129. 



Culm three-sided, clammy ; leaver rough, triangular at the tip. 



gr >ws in many savannas jn great plenty, as also near the sen, and has a strong 

 but agreeable smell. It grows to the height of two f et or better. The clamminess of 

 the leaves renders it verv remarkable, l> >th they and the stem appearing as if they had 



be< ; in thin turpentine or I which does not harden or become dry in the 



hottest weather. 



C. ELECANS. ELEGANT. 



Cyverus, panicida marime sparsa, ferruginea cempressa, eleganlfssi- 

 /''. Sloane, v. 1, p. 117, t. 75, f. l. Major umbi cults 



hixis, spicillis terctibus, culmo Iriquelro. Browne, p. 12 s. C. 4. 

 Cube naked, umbel leafy, peduncles i iliferous, spikes crowded, with 



sp ading points. 

 Tloot-lenves from two to three feet ; ; stalk two feel and a half 



1,', (. with i leaves i ofisafootlon . Panicles ry 



spar lanv spiki I uncles three or four inches 



long, some on none, an I otl itei nediate ! i ; !, broad, 



one-third of an inch in length, made up of two rovi ginous imbricate scales. It 



a-n ics on De'acree pen, Liguanea. oYi 



7. OPORATUS. ( . 



(' itus, pan ' s viridi- 



v. l. p 1 16, t. 7 k f. i. and t. 8, f. l. Maxima - 

 'ens, cuhno rolundtori, paniatta quandoque monstrosa; 



pressis disticfie catis. Browne, p. US. C. .;. 



Culm naked, u impound, simply leafy, pedicels spiked in a double 



i i- . 



Rootlong, roundish, hs: ,1, reddish on the outside, very odoriferous, 



crei ig a large t ice rise many leaves with a prominent sharp 



cutting keel. Stalkstwoon high, with several smaller leav< Isthetop 



under the panicle, which is very sparse, having* besides some shorter spikes, mS 

 on peduncles, above some whereof are a foot high, earh of the spikes be- 



long', v i. roundish, pale green : seed oblong, of a pale yellowish colour. 



]t prows by river sides, Sloa?iB. The largest foliaceous cyperus grows in all the low- 

 Is. near the Cayman nas, rising five feet or more Ft seeds "but seldom; but, in the 

 . . j.n of these, it bears a large foliated top that is divided an.! subdivided into two or 



three 



