50G 



(11) C. PTeMCEUs. fRottb.J 



Ident. Eottb. gram. xx. t. 14, fig. 4, 5.-— Kimth 1., c. p. 18. — 

 N. ab. E. in Wight p. 72. 



Syn. C. sq[uarrosus, Roxb, — C. diffusus, Roxh, 



Mngrm Rottb. 1. c. — Eteede Mai. xii. t. 54. 



Spec. Chab. Culms csespitose, triangular, glabrous, leafy at the 

 base : leaves longer than the culm, keeled and flat, scabrous at 

 .the margin: heads of flowers solitary, ovate-globose, glonierate 

 (sometimes in threes or fours) : involucre 4 — 7-leaved, very long : 

 spikes lanceolate, 10 — 16 — 24-flowered: scales oblong, acutely 

 mucronate, convex and keeled, 3-nerved : achenium oblong, termi- 

 nated by the persistent style, convex and obtusely angled externally, 

 bro-wnish, one-third shorter than ffie scale. 



Peninsula, 



(12) C. AIOPECTTEOrDES. (Botth.J 



Ident. Eottb. gram, xxxviii. — E. Brown prod. 217. — Eunth 

 1. c. p. 19.— Wight Contrib. p. 76.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 282. 



Migrcw. Eottb. 1. c. t. 8, fig. 2. 



Spec. CtttR. Culms triangular, glabrous : leaves fla,t, scabrous 

 on the margin : umbel decompound, about 9-rayed, rays 

 very ' unequal : umbellets 3 — 7 -rayed, partial rays densely 

 covered with spikes on every side, fo'rming elongated cylindricsJ. 

 compound spikes : involucre 3 — 5-leaved, longer than the umbel, 

 partial about 18-flowered: scales broad- eUiptie, mucronate, obso- 

 letely 7-nerved. 



Western coast. 



(13) C. CASTANETTS. (WUU.) 



Rent. "WiUd. sp. I. 278.— Wight Contrib. p. 79.— Eoxb. flor. 

 Ind. I. 195. 



Spec. Chab. Culms triangular and. with the leaves glabrous, 

 convolute and bristly : umbel many-rayed : rays of many spikes : 

 involucre many-leaved, equalling the umbel : scales sharply keeled, 

 recurved mucronate : flow«rs monandrous : achenium oblong, fai- 

 angular, very finely tuberceled and dotted, brown, a half shorter 

 than the scale. 



In moist sandy pastures of the Peninsula. 



(14) C. ANaTJSiiFOLnjs. {fSamilt.) 



Ident. Wight Contrib. 1. c— Kunth 1. c. p. 21. 



Spec. Chae. Culms furrowed and with the leaves glabrous, 

 narrow, convolute : umbels few-rayed, shorter than the 5-leaved 



