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to four-leaved, of the length of the umbellets — Involucre from three 

 to six-leaved, unequal ; the longest from two to three feet, the short- 

 est as many mches. — Seeds three-sided, smooth, 



37. C. digitatm. 7?. 



Culms from one to six feet high. Umbel decompound, fastigiate. 

 Involucre and involuceh many-leaved ; spikes digitate, linear, spike- 

 lels diverging, many-Howeredj^ Ka/^s with long recurved points. 



A middle sized species ; grows in marshy places, ditches, &.c. 



J?oo^, a somewhat tuberous head wiih many fibres— C/<//;2 erect, 

 from one to six feet high, mostly naked, smooth, three-sided.— 

 Leaves sheathing as in the other species, their margins slightly armed 

 \viih minute prickles— (7w6e/ compound, or decompound, from two 

 to four inches high — C'mie//e/s sessile, and peduncled, composed of 

 erect, compound spikes, of small diverging, linear, acute, from four 

 to six-ftowered spikelets; — Iniulucre maay-leaveJ, unequal, most oi: 

 them longer by far than the umbel, margins armed like th^ leaves. 

 —Involucel many-leaved, length of the umbellets.— 6'gec? three-sided, 

 oblong, with grooved sides. 



Obs. In Bengal I have met with this species six feet high, with 

 a decompound umbel, a foot or more every way, and with from 

 twelve to tM'enty-four flowers to the spikelets, the culm between 

 round and three-sided, and in the largest almost entirely round. 



38. C. verticillatus. R. 



Culms four feet high, three-cornered, leafy at the base. Umbel de> 

 compound ; involucre many-leaved, invohicels filiform, spikes of the 

 umbellets verticelied ; spikelets lanceolate. Scales with a blunt 

 point. Seed linear, oblong, three-sided. 



Beng. Bwrethi. 



Found during the rains, in wet low places, in the vicinity of Cal- 

 cutta. 



Root perennial, somewhat tuberous, with numerous dark-co- 

 loured, thick, spongy fibres. — Culms naked, except just at lhe,base, 



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