10() TRIANORIA MONOGYN1A. CyperUS. 



three-leaved, very unequal, the longer being half as long- as 

 the culm; and the third (when present) less than an inch. 

 Scales imbricated, margins membranaceous. Seed three- 

 sided. 



20. C. pumilus. Linn. sp. pi ed. Willd. 1 . 282. Rottb. 

 (/ram. 2.9. t. 9./. 4. Vahl. enum. pl.2. -J:J0. 



Culms about six inches high, angles blunt. Umbels com- 

 pound ; umbeflets sub-globular. Spikelets ; scales daggered. 



Delights in a moist soil- 



Root fibrous. Culms erect, six inches high, half naked, 

 obsoletely three-sided, smooth, angles rounded. Leaves 

 sheathing, shorter than the culm. Umbel compound ; umbel- 

 lets from three to six, shorter or longer peduncled, globular, 

 composed often or twelve linear, many-flowered spikes. In- 

 volucre three or four-leaved, unequal, the largest as long as 

 the culm. Scales acute. 



21. C. cruentus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 275. Rottb. 

 gram. 21. t. h.f. 1. 



Culms three-sided, from six to twelve inches long. Leaves 

 sub-radical ; umbel compound ; involucre three or four-leav- 

 ed. Scales obtuse. Flowers diandrous. Style two-cleft. Seed 

 round and smooth. 



A native of low pasture land all over Bengal, &c. where it 

 is found growing in tufts during the rainy season, like most of 

 this natural order. 



Obs. Cattle rarely eat it except when pressed by hunger. 



22. C. incnrvalns. R. 



Culms triangular, base leafy, incurvate. Umbel compound. 

 Involucres two or three, incurvate. Spikes needle-shaped, 

 incurved. Scales oblong, obtuse. Stiyma three-cleft. 



A native of the moist banks of the Ganges. Flowers dur- 

 ing- the cool season. 



Roots creeping, stoloniferous, with dark-coloured fibres. 



