l{)0 rRiANDaiA MONOGYWiA= Lt/perus. 



CYPERUS. 



Glunm chaffy, bifariously imbricated. Corol none. Seed one, 

 naked. 



Sect, \st, with culumnar Culms. 



l.C.sefaceus. Linn. Sp, PI ed- Willd. l.£69. Rett. Obs.S.p. 10. 



Culms setaceous, from two to three inches high ; spike terminal, 

 solitary, tiaked. 



A naiive of Coromandcl, appears and flowers during the raiuy 

 season chiefly. 



2. C. mncronatus. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. 1. 273. Retz. Ohs. 5. 10. 



Culms from six to eight inches high, round, incurved, half naked. 

 Spikes lateral, sessile. Involucre one-leaved, besides the continua- 

 tion of the culm. Seed oval, rounded. 



A native of moist sandy places, over various parts of India. 



Root creepuig, invested in brown sheaths— (7«/ms hulf naked, issu- 

 ing singly from the root at some small distance from each other, nearly 

 round, ascending, from six to eiglit inches long; the lower half is in- 

 volved in the sheath of a single, short leaf. — Leq/" sheathing, generally 

 one to each culm, which is only about half its length. — Head 

 about an inch and a half below the extremity of the culm, it 

 consists of five or six small, oval, ten or twelve-flowered spikes. 

 — Involucre une-leaved, about as long as the spikes; besides these 

 there are some small, chaffy, calyx-like scales. — Seed naked, oval, 

 compressed, white. 



3. C. lateralis. Forst. descript. 13. N. 28. 

 * Culms erect, columnar, from eight to twelve" inches long, naked; 

 Head of Ave or six sessile spikes beneath the straight apex of the 

 culm ; Stigma bifid ; Seed oval, compressed. 



A native of Coromandel. 



Root creeping, dark rusty brown. — Culms straight and perfectly 

 erect, from eight to twelve inches high, round, and naked. — Leaves 

 no other than a short sheath or two, embracing the base of each culm^ 



