^00 ^ TlilAKDEiA WONO&YNIA. CtJiycrUS. 



20. C. pumilus. Lmn. Sp. PI. eel JVilld. 1. 282. Uottb. gram. 

 29. t. 9./. 4. Fahl. Entim. PI. 2. 336. 



Culms about six inches high, angles bhint. Umbels compound ; 

 umbellets sub-globular. Spikelets, Scales daggered. 



Delights in a moist soil. 



itoo; fibrous. — Culms erect, six inches high, half naked, obsolete- 

 ly three-sided, smooth, angles rounded. — Leaves sheathing, sliorter 

 than the culm. — Vaibel compound, umhellets from three to six, shorter 

 or longer pedunclcJ, globular, composed of ten or twelve linear, ma- 

 ny-flowered spikes. — Involucre three or four-leaved, unequal, the 

 largest as long as the cuhu. Scales acute. 



21. C. cruentus. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. 1. 275. Rottb. gram, 

 21. t. 5./. 1. 



Culms tljree-sided, from six to twelve inches long. Leaves sub-radi- 

 cal, ?//72^e/ compound, involucre throe or four-leaved. Scales obtuse, 

 Jf.)W2rs Jiandrous. Stj/le two-cleft. Seed round and smooth. 



A native oi low pasture land all over Bengal, &c. where it is found 

 growing in tufts during the rainy season. Like most of this natural 

 order. 



0^5. Cattle rarely eat it, except when pressed by hunger. 



22. C. incurvatus. R. 



Culms triangular, base leafy, incurvate. Umbel compound. Invo- 

 lucres two or three, incurvate. Spikes needle-shaped, incurved. 

 Scales oblong, obtuse. Stigma three-cleft. 



A native of the moist banks of the Ganges. Flowers during the 

 cool season. 



Roots creeping, stoloniferous, with dark-coloured fibres. — Leaves 

 ensiform, polishe.l, si or er than the culms.— Cw/m? slightly incurv- 

 ed, leafy rr^n.i i uii base, triangular, with sharp angles, concave 

 sides, aiid from one tu iwo iett high.— Livulucre two; or three- 

 leaved, incurved, one of them two or three times longer than the 

 umbel-- l/./iJe/ compound, spikes needle-shaped, incurved — Scales 



