186 TSiAKrniA KONdsYiriA. KyUingia* 



2. K. triceps. Linn. Sp. PI ed. Willd. 1. 256. 



Culms from six fo twelve inches liigh, three-cornered. Heads 

 terminal, sessile, from three to six ; involucres ihree or four \Jlorets 

 diandrous ; Seed oblong, without angles. 



Motjtenga. Rheed. Hart. mal. 12. p. 97. t. 52. 



A native of low shady pasture ground. 



liool. somewhat tuberous, with capillary fibres. — Culms straight, 

 from six to twelve inch^^s high, smooth, naked, except at the base, ob- 

 tusely three-sided ; angler,, rounded. — Leaves sheathing, nearly as long 

 as tlie culm, smooth. — Head terminal, composed of from three to six 

 sessile, oval, white spikes, die largest one is in the centre, the rest in 

 the circumference.— /»ro/«(Te as in K. mo/iocephala. — Stamens sel- 

 dom more than two. — Stigma two-cleft. — Seed o'ulong, much com- 

 pressed, white, no angles. 



Obs. It differs from K. monocephala not only in having a com- 

 pound head but in being diandrous, witli a bifid style, and oblong lan- 

 ceolate seed. I have found luxuriant plants with more than one 

 tlovver in the calyx» 



3. K. nmhellata. Linn. Sp. PL ed. IVilld. 1. 257. Uottb. gram. 

 15. t. 4./. 2. 



Culms from o^ie to two-feet high, three-sided, umbel of sessile 

 and peduncled, cylindrical, ragged spikes, involucres many ; invo- 

 lucels none. Seeds three-sided, linear-oblono^. 



Kol puUu. Rheed. Hort. mat. 12. t. G3. 



Mariscus umbellatus. Valil. Enuni. PL 2. 37o. 



£eng. i^Mra-goihoobi. 



A native of wet or marshy places. 



Root tuberous, rust-coloured, with rust^coloured fibres. — Culms 

 erect, from one to two feet high, three-fourths naked, three-sided, 

 Bmooth. — Leaves sheathing nearly as long as the culm. — Umbel ter- 

 minal, sessile, composed of sessile and peduncled, cylindrical spikes 

 of fluuaerous diverging flowers. — Involucre i universal, many leaved, 



