Kyllinga.] CYPERACE. 1135 
1032. Kyllinga Rottb. 
Perennial herbs, tufted or with a creeping rootstock; stem 
trigonous; leaves narrow, chiefly radical. tkelets minute, 
ternate, involucrate e spikes; rachis short, naked after the fall of 
the spikelets, or squarrosely covered with the more or less per- 
sistent lowest glumes; bracts leaflike; spikelets green, se! 
laterally compressed, 1-2-flowered; rachilla very minute, 
articulating above the two lowest glumes. Glwmes 4, distichous ; 
I, hyaline, lanceolate ; II. orbicular or lanceolate, much shorter 
are ee ee 
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cuspidate. Stamens 1-3; anthers long or short. Ovary sub- 
| orbicular ; style long or short; base not swollen; stigmas 
7 capillary. Fruit a strongly laterally pst aloet smooth nut, 
Sometimes apiculate by the persistent style-base 
Nut- leary glume winged in upper half of keel; er ae creeping, 
elo hala 
Nut! fealtig edie not winged in upper half of keel :— 
| Rhizome creeping, Lie BOG widiaiceess cee brevifolia. 
t Rhizome ver ry shor 
: Nut yellow- sees whew ripe triceps 
Nut black when ri ipe cylindrica 
2382. Kynninca MICROCEPHALA Rottb.; F. B. I. vi. 588. 
In all the provinces. zs 
A small herb; stem *3-2 feet high; rhizome 4-10 in. 
lon 
2383, Baws BREVIFOLIA Rottb.; F. B. I. vi. 588, 
In all the provinces. ‘ 
A vee herb; stem *3-2 feet high; rhizome 4-10 in. 
lon 
2384, tsa TRICEPS Rottb.; F. B. I. vi. 587. 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnath; Chittagong. 
A small herb, ‘3-1 foot high. 
