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rays unequal, with 4 to 15 spikelets at the apex, the longer ones 

 3-divided ; involucre 3 to 4-leaved, longer than the umbel ; spikelets 

 spicato-fascicled, oblong-lanceolate acute, compressed, shining and 

 almost black ; scales ovate-elliptic, obtuse. Syn. C pumilus, llottb. 

 Gram. t. 9, /. 4. The Deccan. 



14. C ARENARIUS, Retz. Stem long descending (into the 

 sand), covered with the brown fibrous remains of withered sheaths ; 

 branches solitary, lateral, their bases covered with many-nerved 

 mucronate sheaths ; culms (above) round, short, smooth, with 3 to 

 4 glaucous, retro-curved, canaliculate mucronate leaves, much 

 longer than the culm ; sheaths a delicate white membrane, uniting 

 the margins of the leaf, and truncate at the apex; spiculse \'2 to 15 

 in a dense head, ovate-obtuse, subtended by bracts, of which the 

 2 lower are long and leafy ; seed obovate, smooth, trigonal. In 

 sand on the sea-shore; scales ovate, mucronate, membranous, with 

 reddish brown striae ; styles 3, long and pointed. 



15. C BULBOSUS, Vahl. Root with a little oval-pointed, brown 

 bulb ; culm filiform, obtusely triangular, shorter than the leaves ; 

 leaves 3 to 4, with long sheaths, very narrow, coming to a long 

 slender fine point, channeled on the inner surface, convex on the 

 other ; spiculee 2 to 3 lines long, about 6, reddish-brown, alternate, 

 solitary or twin, linear lanceolate, composed of about 7 scales, the 

 2 lowermost spiculae subtended by leafy bracts, of which the 

 lowermost is very long, 1 to 3 inches, and like the leaves ; stamens 

 3, long linear ; scales ovate, with a little mucro. Sandy soil near 

 the sea. 



16. C TENUIFLORUS, Rottb. Gram. t. ]4,fig. 1. Root creep- 

 ing ; culms acutely triangular, 2 feet high, smooth, leafy below ; 

 leaves flat, nerved, roughish on the margins, shorter than the 

 culm ; involucre about 4-leaved, longer than the compound 

 umbel ; rays about 7, branched in a brachiate manner above ; 

 spikelets 2 to 8 between, spiked and fascicled, narrow-linear com- 

 pressed, of a rich chesnut colour, 16 to 24-flowered ; scales ovate 

 obtuse, 7 to 9-nerved, with the keel green ; style very long ; seed 

 oval, 3-cornered, smooth. Syn. C incurvatus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 

 200. The Deccan. 



17. C UMBELLATUS, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 208. Root fibrous ; 

 culms erect, 4 to 6 feet high, smooth, bluntly angled, leafy at the 

 base ; leaves elongated, one as long as the culm ; involucre 3 to 6- 

 leaved ; leaflets unequal, the largest 2 to 3 feet long ; umbel 

 decompound, with many unequal rays ; spikelets numerous spiked, 

 alternate, 3 to 4-flowered ; seed elliptic, triangular, smooth. The 

 Deccan. 



18. C FLAVIDUS, Retz. Obs. v, 13. Root fibrous, of a dark- 

 purple colour; culm triangular, erect, 6 to 8 inches high, naked, 



