2oa 



TRIANDRIA MOKOGYMlA. Cl/perut. 



compound, erect, about a span \on^.~ Spikehfs sessile, diverging, 

 lanceolate, rigid, obtuse. — Stt/le two-cleft. — Seeds ubcordate, a little 

 compressed, smooth. 



32. C. Pangorei. Uottb. grnm. 31. t. l.f. 3. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 

 Mllld. 1.284. 



Culms from three to four feet liigh, naked. Leaves scarcely any. 

 Umbels decompound ; involucre three or four-leaved ; involucels seta- 

 ceous. Spikeiets riliform. Seeds oblong, compressed. 



Beiig. Chauia'z Patee. 



Is cojamou on the banlisoflhe Ganges, and serves, with C. inun- 

 datus, the same useful purposes, tiiough in an inferior degree. 



i^oof jointed, creeping, stoloniferous, perennial. — Culms erect, 

 naked, smooth, three-sided towards the apex, sides concave, from 

 two to four feet high, and about as thick as a goose quill. — Leaves 

 one or two, sword- shaped, very short, involving with their sheaths, 

 the base of the culm. Universal involucre three or four-leaved, very 

 smooth, the longest twice the length of the umbel ; partial minute, 

 setaceous.— l7/«ie/ decompound, composed of one sessile umbel- 

 let in the centre, and from four to eight spreading, compound ones, 

 in the circumference, supported on line, compressed peduncles 

 of unequal lengths. — Spikelcts tiiifoim, from ten to tweuty-ilowered. 



—Scales obtuse Stamens three.— Seed ublong, compressed. 



Obs. Its naked, exactly three-sided culms, and scarcity of short 

 leaves readily distmguish it from all the other species I have yet de- 

 scribed. C. tegetuni has the angles rounded, and no leaves. 



33. C procerus. Rottb. gram, 29. t. 5.f. 3. 



Culms from three to six feet high, angles sharp. Umbel decom- 

 pound. Involucres none ; spikeleis alternate, linear, Jiowers dian- 

 drous. Seeds obcordate, compressed, widiout angles. 



Pota-pulla. Rheed. mal 12. /). 93. ?. 50. 



Is a native of moist vallies, rivulels, &c. amongst the moun- 

 tain?:. 



