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.6. Eriocaulon xeranthkmum, Mart. 



F. B. I. vl. 584 ; B. P. 1 127 ; F. B. P. 11. 849.^ 

 A stemless tufted annual herb, up to 6 Inches, 

 Leave's linear lanceolate, many nerved. Peduncles 

 many, striated. Heads yellowish. Receptacle 

 villous. InvoliJcral bracts erect or spreading, star- 

 like, pale, shining, longer than head. Floral 

 bracts hairy. Seed narrow, yellow, covered with 

 ^mall^warts. Only collected near Seoni. 



II-.CYPERACE.^ 



.7. Kylunga triceps, Rottb. 



F.'B. I. vi 587; B. P. 1135 ; F. B. P. ii. 877. 



Tufted annual glabrous sedge, 2-10 inches high. 

 Stem thickened at base. Rhizome very short. 

 Leaves as long as stem. Stem terminated by 

 three (sometimes one) whitish heads. Middle. pne 

 largest, up to % inch. Bracts 3-4 up to 2 inches, 

 leaf-like. Nut oblong, compressed, i\j inch, 

 yellow-brown when ripe. 



,8. Kyllinga brf.vifolia. Rottb, 



F. B. I. vi. 588; B. P. 1 1 3.5. 



Perennial creeping glabrous sedge, 4 — 8 inches high. 

 Rhizome long,, creeping. Leaves variable. Stem 

 terminated by 3 — i ovoid greenish heads. Bracts 

 3 — 4 up to 2 inches, leaf-like Nut ellipsoid, 

 yellow -brown. Only collected near Seoni. 



j^. Pycreus sanguinolentus, Nees, 



F.B. L vi. 590 ; B. P. 11 37; Cyperus sangtiinolen- 

 tus, F. B. P. ii. 856. 



Perennial sedge, up to 18 inches. Stem leafy half 

 length. Umbel up' to 2 inches, simple or reduced 

 to a single head. Eracts 3—5 up to 4 inches, 

 leaf-like Spike lets reddish-brown. Mut obovoid, 

 biconvex, apiculate, biown. Common on the 

 Jufebu'pore-Raipur and Farms. 



10. Pycr&us nitens, Nees. 



F. B. I. vi. S91 ; B- P* 1137 5 Cyperus pumiliSf 



F. B. P. ii. 857. 

 Annual tufted slender glabrous sedge, 2-8 inches 

 high. Leaves as long as stem. Umbel up to i 

 inch, slender, simple. Bracts 3 — 4, leaf-like up tp 



