212 TRiANnRiA MONOGYNIA. Ct/pCrUS, 



at the bases three-sided, smooth. — Leaves as in the other species. — 

 Vmbeldccow.poiwid, drooping, from six to twelve inches high. U/iL" 

 beliefs one or two sub-sessile, ar.d from four to eight with peduncles 

 of various lengths. Partial umiellets peduncled and composed of 

 beautiful, linear, bowing, compound racemes of lanceolate, many- 

 flowered, chesimt-coloured spikeleis. — Involucre three-leaved, une- 

 qual, liivolncels, small, frequently only chaffy scales. — Seed three- 

 sided, smooth. 



Ohs. I have seen small plants with the umbellets small, dense 

 and globular. 



42. C. midus. R, 



Leafless. Culms from four to six feet high, three-comere'd. Um- 

 bels super-decompound, naked. Involucres, Sind involucels chaffy; 

 spikekts subulate, alternate. Seed oblong, compressed without an- 

 gles. 



'Beiig. Goola-Methhi. 



A. native of low wet places over Bengal. Flowers during the 

 rains. 



Roof perennial, somewhat tuberous. — Leaves no other than a 

 short sheath or two, which envelope the base of the culm, the up- 

 permost' one sometimes ends in a short ensiform leaflet.— Cm^/7» 

 about five feet high, naked, smooth, bright-green, three-cornered, 

 with the angles rounded. Involucres three or four, sub lanceolate, 

 erpct, about one-fourth the length of the umbel. — r7/?i6e/5 decom- 

 pound and super-decompound, with the sub-divisions, and slender, 

 smooth, compressed peduncles of various length.— Spikekts alter- 

 nate, subulate, of a bright brown colour, each bearing from twenty 

 to thirty flowers. — Stamens three. — 6Yj//e three-cleft. — Seed oblong, 

 compressed, without angles. 



Obs. This species is very like G. tegetuvif and about the same size, 

 though I am informed, never used for mats, as that is. To know it 

 from C. tegetum attend to the involucre, which in this is only about 

 one-fourth the length of the umbel, but in that as long or longer. 



