188 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ClJperUS. 



the umbel, sides and keel hispid. Umbeltets and partial um- 

 beltets peduncled, composed of linear-lanceolate, yellowish 

 spikes. Seed three-sided, smooth. 



Obs. Cattle are not fond of it, and it is only eaten occasion- 

 ally by buffaloes;. 



SECT. II. with a three-sided Culm. 



C. C. dubius. Rottb. gram. 20. t. i.f. 5. Linn. sp. pi. ed, 

 Willd, 1. 273. 



Culm from six to twelve inches high. Head terminal, 

 roundish, sessile. Involucre of four or five long leaves, some 

 of them longer than the culm. 



Cyperus longus. Rumph. Amb. 6. p. 5. t. 2.J\ 1. 



C. kyUingatoides. Vahl. enum. pi. 2. 312. 



Telhuj. Tagada twnga. 



Beng. Chhota-gothoob*'. 



This species in much like Kyllingia monocephala, and is 

 with it, a native of shady, moist pasture lands. 



Root, a somewhat tuberous head, with many rust-coloured 

 capillary fibres. Culms erect, from six to twelve inches high, 

 three-sided, smooth, the lower third or fourth part involved 

 in the sheaths of the leaves. Leaves sheathing, radical, em- 

 bracing the base of the culm, very smooth, many of them 

 longer than the culm. Ifead globular, size of a large cherry, 

 composed of numerous, lanceolate, sessile, white-pointed 

 spikes. Involucre four or five-leaved, unequal, some of them 

 longer than the culm. Seed three-sided, pointed, dark rust- 

 coloured, smooth. 



Obs. Cattle eat it. 



7. C. monocephalus. R. 



Culms from twelve to eighteen inches high, straight ; head 

 terminal, ovate, compound ; involucre, from three to four- 

 leaved ; spikelets ovate. Style undivided. Seed three-sided, 

 elevated on a spongy receptacle. 



