505 



(8) C. PUNCTrcuiATUS. fVahl.J 



Ident. VaU. 1. c. 348. — Kunth. 1. o. p. 15. 



C. iaundatus, Boxh. JUT. ah. K in Wight, p. 76. — C. 



diluvialis, Sehult. — C. procerus, Roxb. 



Spec. Chab. Tall: oulm triangular, glabrous: leaves stiff, 

 keeled flat, somewliat scabrous on the margin, and keel : nmbel 

 decompound, somevbat S-rayed, large, diffuse: rays bracteately 

 3 — 5-cleft, branches many-spiked : spikes spicately arranged, much, 

 spreading, broadly Hnear, 20 — 26-flo-wered: involucre 3-leaved, 

 very long : scales roundish-elliptic, shortly mucronate, keeled : 

 stamens 2 : acheniuta obliquely sub-cordate, compressed at the 

 sides, dotted and sUghtly scabrous, bright chestnut, shorter by half 

 than the scale. 



Peninsula. Bengal. 



(9) C. TOETijosus. (Kom.) 



Keen, in Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. p. 197.— Eunth 1. c— "Wight 

 Contrib. p. 75. 



Spec. Chab. Umbel compound: spikelets linear, incurved, 

 20 — 40-flo'wered : scales oval, mucronulate, chestnut : stamens 2 : 

 caryopsis obovate, lenticular, compressed, smooth : involucre 

 3-leaved, exceeding the umbel, leaflets spreading : leaves sub- 

 radical, shorter than the smooth triangular oulm, keeled, spirally 

 sheathing the base of the culm; 



Ciroars, in moist meadows. 



(10) C. MUCKONATTrS. (Rotth.) 



Ident. Eottb. gram. xLx. t. 8, flg. 4. — Eoxb. 1. c. — N. ab. E. in 

 "Wight p. 72.— Kunth 1. c. p. 17. 



Syn. G. lateralis, Roxh. — JV. ah. U. I. e. p. 73, fVm-.J — C. 

 laevigatus, Linn. Mant. — Rotth. I. c. ( Var.J — C. pleuranthus, 2V. ah. 

 E. I. c. p. 73. 



Spec. Chae. Creeping, stoloniferous : culms terete, 3-comered 

 at the apex, 1 -leaved at the base : leaf erect, short, flat : spikes 

 2 — 30, fascicled and congested, seldom solitary, ^ broadly linear, 

 sometimes oblong, 15 — 30-flowered, sometimes arched : involucre 

 somewhat 2-leaved, one leaflet erect, continuing the culm, exceeding 

 the spikes : scales broadly ovate, concave, obtuse, upper ones 

 acutish :' stamens 3 : achenia compressed, plano-convex, oblong, 

 elliptic or sub-rotund, dotted, strawy-brown, one-third shorter than 

 the scale. 



Coromandel, and other moist localities in the Peninsula. 



