|94 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CypertlS. 



16. C. capillaris. Kim. Mss. 



Culm filiform, from one to two feet high. Umbel of one ses- 

 sile, and two pedicelled umbellete. Involucre three-leaved, 

 filiform, florets diandrons. Style two-cleft. Seed obovate, 

 without angles. 



A native of moist pasture ground. 



Root fibrous. Culms erect, from twelve to eighteen in- 

 ches high, three-sided, filiform, three-fourths or more naked, 

 Leaves sheathing, generally two to each culm ; the lower one 

 short, superior one as long as the culm, very slender and 

 smooth. Umbel small, compound, generally composed of one 

 sessile, and two peduncled umbellets, these are again compos- 

 ed of linear, many-flowered spikes. Involucre three-leaved, 

 filiform, the largest is longer than the culm ; the shortest about 

 an inch long, and the other between the two. Scales mem- 

 branaceous, obtuse. Stamens two. Style two-cleft. Seed obo- 

 vate, compressed, brown, pretty smooth, half hid intherachis. 



17. C. compressus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 282. Vahf. 

 mum. pi. 2. 324. 



Culms from six to ten inches high, shorter than the leaves, 

 angles blunt. Umbel simple or compound. Involucre three- 

 leaved. Scales daggered. Seed obcordate, triangular. 



Graincn cyperoides rarius, &c. Pluck, t. \92.f. 1. 



Beng. Choonchtf. 



Telinxf. Sah't?mgff. 



Delights in a moist soil. 



Root fibrous. Culms erect, from six to ten inches high, two- 

 thirds naked, three-sided, smooth ; angles blunt. Leaves nu- 

 merous, sheathing, many of them longer than the culms, smooth 

 and glossy. Umbel terminal, simple, or compound; when 

 compound the umbellets are peduncled, from one to three, 

 and consist of from three to six, green, linear, sessile, many- 

 flowered spikes. Involucre three-leaved, smooth, the largest ol 

 them is nearly as long as the culm. Scales acute. Seed turbi- 

 nate, three-sided, smooth, dark-brown colour. 



