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smooth ; leaves radical for the most part, longer than the culm, 

 very shortly sheathing the base of the culm ; involucre 2-leaved, 

 shorter than the umbel, which is compound or decompound ; 

 umbels globose, 1 to 2 sessile, 2 to 8 unequally peduncled ; peduncle 

 very long ; spikelets crowded, lanceolate monandrous, chesnut- 

 coloured; seed obcordate, triangular, roughish, short. The Deccan. 

 Easily recognised by its yellow hue. 



2. ELEOCHARIS, Brown. 



1. E CAPITATA, Br. Prod. 225. Three inches high, root 

 fibrous ; culms cespitose, capillary, sulcate, sheathing at the base, 

 leafless ; spike solitary, erect, ovato-subglobose, obtuse, without 

 bracts; scales elliptic rounded at the apex, convex, I -nerved, of 

 a pale-straw colour, ferruginous above ; style deeply bifid ; seed 

 obovate, thickly lenticular, smooth, shining, terminated by a small 

 tubercle. Swampy places in the Deccan ; a native also of the West 

 Indies, Mexico, Mauritius, and New Holland. Syn. Scirpus capi- 

 tatus, Willd. Eleogenus capitatus, Nees in Wight Contr. 112. 



3. MARISCUS, Vahl. 



1. UMBELLATUS, Vahl. Enum. ii, 376. Culm triangular, gla- 

 brous ; leaves longer than the culm, membranaceous, margins and 

 keel hispid and rough; spikes compound, 11 to 16, unequally 

 peduncled and sessile, umbelled ; involucre many-leaved, very 

 long) Syn. Scirpus cyperoides, Linn. Mant. 181 ; Kyllingia 

 umbellata, Linn. Suppl. 105. 



4. COURT01SIA, N. ab E. 



1. CYPEROIDES, N. ab E. in Edin. Phil. Jour. 1834, No. 34. 

 Culm slender, triangular, striated, glabrous, leafy at the base; 

 leaves elongated, linear, flat, membranaceous, scabrous on the 

 margin ; umbel compound, with many rays ; heads subglobose, 

 with many spikes; involucre very long, about 4-leaved ; scales 

 ferruginous, mucronate. Syn. Kyllingia cyperoides, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i, 187; IVIariscus cyperoides, Dictr. sp. ii, 348; Cyperus 

 glomeratus, Klein. 



5. KYLLINGIA, Rottl. 



1. MONOCEPHALA, Linn. Suppl. 104. Creeping; culm erect 

 triangular, leafy at the base ; leaves membranaceous, flat towards 

 the apex, ciliated with minute bristles on the margin and keel ; 

 head solitary, globose, dense ; involucre 3 to 4-leaved, very long ; 



