504 



compreesed, 16 — 24-flowered: scales broadly ovate, obtuse, muticous, 

 keeled boat-shaped, margins brightly or chestnut sanguineous, keel 

 green : style very long : achenium roundish, compressed at the 

 sides, apiculate, very finely dotted, chestnut or dark-brown, 2 — 4 

 times shorter than tiie scale. 



ITathpur. Bengal. 



(5) C. ATEE. yVaU.j 



Ident. Vahl. 1. c— -Kunth 1. c— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 283. 



Syn. C. pumilus, Rotth. gram. 



Spec. Chae. Culm triangulajr, smooth : leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 smooth on the margin : umbel about 6-rayed : rays unequal with 

 4^15 spikelets at the top, the longer ones 3-divided: involucre 3 — 

 4-leaved, longer than the umbel : spikelets spicately fascicled, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, compressed, shining and almost black : 

 scales ovate-elliptic, obtuse, muticous, keeled boat-shaped, sides 

 chestnut sanguineous above. 



Deocan. 



(6) C. siEAMncEus. (N. ah. E.) 

 Ident. N. ab. E. in "Wight Contrib. p. 74. 



Spec. Chab. Culm filiform, compressed, glabrous : leaves 

 almost equalling the culm, narrow, flat, scabrous at the upper 

 margin : spikes 5 — 6, alternately and spicately arranged at the apex 

 of the culm, Hnear or oblong-linear, acute, compressed, 20 — 40- 

 flowered, straw yellow : involucre 2 — 3-leaved, very long : scales 

 broadly ovate, keeled, acutely sub-mucronate : stamens 2 :- achenium 

 roTind obovate, compressed at the sides, transversely wrinkled, 

 chestnut, slightly shining, nearly 3 times shorter than tiie scale. 



Silhet. 



(7) C. POLTSTACHYXJS. (Rottl.) 



Ident. Kottb. gram. 39, t. xi. fig. 1. — Kunth 1. c. p. 13. — Eoxb. 

 flor. Ind. I. 193.— N. ab. E. in Wight p. 75. 



C. fasciculajis, Lam. III. — C. paniculatus, Rotth. I. c. 40. — 

 C. oiidus, Vahl. Mium. II. 333. 



Spec. Chab. Culm triangular, glabrous, leafy at the base : leaves 

 shorter than the culm, flat and keeled, rough on the margias : 

 umbel several rayed, rays branched, corymbiform at the apex, 

 many-spiked, most frequently abbreviated : iavolucre 3 — 6 leaved : 

 epikes fascicled corymbiform, linear-lanceolate, compressed, 20 — 22- 

 flowered : scales ovate-elliptic, keeled, shortly mucronate : keel 

 3-nerved, green : stamens 2. 



Common everywhere. 



