1138 BENGAL PLANTS. [Juncellus. 
1-2; anthers linear or oblong. Ovary ovoid; style distinct; 
stigmas 2. Fruit a plano-convex, dorsally compressed nut. 
Stem with an umbellate inflorescenc tnundatus. 
Stem with a capitate inflorescence pygmaeus 
2395. JUNCELLUS INUNDATUS Clarke; F. B. I. vi. 595. Cyperus 
anundatus F. I. i. 201; E. D. C. 260 
C.B 
e ; Sundribuns. 
A stout herb, Vernac. Pati. 
2396. JUNCELLUS PYGMAUS Clarke; F. B. I. vi. 596. Cyperus 
squarrosus i. 190. 
n all the provinces. 
A dwarf, annual herb. 
1035. Cyperus Linn. 
Perennial, rarely annual, glabrous rootstock creeping, 
short or long, or 0; leaves all towards e of stem, or sometimes 
a few cauline, occasionally the leaves sedutbd to sheaths. Spike- 
lets in solitary or umbelled heads or spikes of linear or oblong 
spikelets ; with one or more leafy, involucrate bracts, and with 
Glumes distichous ; the lowest two empty, those above 2-sexual, 
all nearly equal, deciduous from below upwards, the uppermost 
1-8 sterile or empty ; hypogynous scales or bristles 0. Stamens 
83, rarely 2; anthers linear or oblong. Ovary compressed ; style 
short or long or obsolete; stigmas 3, rarely 2. Fruit a trigonous 
or triquetrous nut. 
Floating in still water ; nut corky below 
Inflorescence capitate ; styles long, mantiyiiea or obscurely ets toothed 
stamens 3-2 halotes. 
Inflorescence umbellate ; style branches linear-lanceolate ; sane 3 
latystylis. 
Rooting in soil or mud; nut not corky at base; inflorescence usually 
a — 
*Spikelets digitate or clustered, not spicate or racemose :—( p. 1139] 
Annuals, or if perennial (C. Haspan) the roots fibrous, the rhizome 
not woody, and the stamens often 2; inflorescence umbellate, oF if 
reduced to a single head the stamens usually 1, rarely 2:—[p. 1139] 
