507 



involucre, rays many-spiked: spikes linear, compressed, 14 — 20- 

 flowered : scales sharply keeled, recurved and mucronately awned : 

 flowers diandrous : achenium obovate, triangular, very finely 

 tubercled and dotted, brown, a half shorter than the scale. 



Lower Bengal. 



, (15) SQUAEEOSUS. (Lkm.) 



Ident. Linn. Am. Acad. iv. 303. — Wight I.e. p. 75. 



St/n. C. Maderaspatanus, TViUd. 



Engrav. Eottb. gram. 25, t. 6, fig. 3. 



Spec. Chak. Leaves linear, keeled, glabrous, longer than the 

 culm : umbel 3 — 5-rpyed, rays very unequal, many-spiked : spikes 

 clustered, 10 — 11-flowered: involucre very long: scales sharply 

 keeled, 3-nerved, mucronate : flowers monandrous :' achenium linear, 

 triangiilar, 1 -third shorter than the scale. 



Peninsula. 



(16) C. AusTATUs. (Motth.j 



Ident. Eottb. gram. 23. — Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. 190. — Wight 

 Contrib. p. 78. 



Syn. C. capitatus, Burm. Ind. 21. — C. iatricatus, Zm». J(f«w^ 

 182. — Scirpus Lappaceus, Lam. III. I. 139. — C. versicolor, ' ^^A< 

 Contrib. p. 78. 



Engrcm. Eottb. 1. c. t. 6, flg. I. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves linear, keeled, glabrous, almost equalling 

 the triquetrous culm : umbel depauperated, 1 — 4-rayed, rays very 

 unequal, many-spiked: spikes fasciculato-capitate, 8 — 10-flowered: 

 capitules oblong or elliptic-globose : involucre 3 — 4-leaved, very 

 long : scales 7 — 8 -nerved, acuminately awned, awns hooked : 

 achenium oblong, , triangular, brown, very finely dotted, 3-times 

 shorter than the scale. 



Moist pastures of the Peninsula. Sandy places at Ifegapatam. 



(17) C. coMPEESsus. (Linn J. 



Ident. Linn. sp. 68. — ^Kuuth 1. c. p. 23. — Eoxb. I. c. 194. — 

 Wight Contrib. p. 76. 



Syn. C. pectinatus, Roxb. — C. Coromandelianus, Spreng. — C. 

 pectiniformis, Schult. Mamt. Wight I. e. p. 77. 



JEkgrwo. Eottb. gram. 27, t. 9, fig. 3. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves glabrous, fiat, longer than the triangular 

 culm, younger ones serrulated on the margin : umbel 1-^6-rayed, 



