Cyperus. trtandria monogynia. 19J 



A native of Coromandel. 



Culms erect, straight, three-sided, leafy toward the base ; 

 from eight to twelve inches high. Umbel terminal, simple, 

 sessile, globular, composed of about twelve sessile, linear, 

 diverging- spikes. Involucre from two to three-leaved, the 

 longest leaflet about as long 1 as the umbel. Scales with long-, 

 acute, recurved apices. Stamina three. Style with a three- 

 cleft apex. Seed obovate, three-sided, smooth, dark ash-co- 

 loured. 



12. C. niveus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 273. Retz. Obs. 

 5. p. 12. 



Culms from five to eighteen inches high. Umbels or ra- 

 ther heads, sessile. Involucre two-leaved. Style three-cleft. 

 Seed three-sided. 



A native of shady moist pasture land. 



Root creeping-, fibrous. Culms erect, from five to ten inches 

 high, mostly naked, three-sided, smooth. Leaves surround- 

 ing- the base of the culm, sheathing, those that are nearest the 

 root are little more than sheaths, those within are nearly as 

 long as the culm, and waved. Umbel terminal, simple, ses- 

 sile, about an inch each May, composed of linear, many flow- 

 ered, sessile spikes. Involucre two-leaved, length of the 

 spikes. Seed three-sided. 



13. C. jemenicus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 281. 



Culms from two to four inches high, obscurely three-cor- 

 nered ; base bulbij'erous. Umbels simple. Involucres and 

 spi/celets alternate. Scales acute. Seed roundish, three- 

 sided. 



Puri-gaddi is the Telinga name of the plant,' and Puri- 

 dumpa that of the roots. 



A native of dry sandy pasture ground near the sea. 



Root bulbiferous, stoloniferous. When the small oval 

 bulbs are taken up entire they appear covered and entirely 

 surrounded with two, three, or four black and brown, longi- 



