510 



(24) C. ABENAEIT7S. (Rett.) 



Ident. Eetz. obs. iv. 9. — Wight Contrib. p. 77. — Dalz. 1. c. p. 

 284. 



Spec. Chae. Stem long, descending, covered with brown fibrous 

 remains of withered sheaths : branches solitary, lateral, their bases 

 covered with many-nerved mucronate sheaths : culms round, short, 

 smooth with 3 — 4 glaucous retro-curved channelled mucronate 

 leaves, much longer than the culm : sheaths a white thin mem- 

 brane uniting the margins of the leaf, truncated at the apex : 

 spikelets 12 — 15 in a dense head, ovate-obtuse, subtended by 

 bracts of which two lower ones long and leafy : seed obovate, 

 smooth, trigonal : scales ovate, mucronate, membranous, with 

 reddish brown strise : styles three, long, pointed. 



Sands on the sea-shores of the Peninsula. 



(25) C. CEPHALOIES. fVaU.J 



Vahl. 1. c. 311.— Kunth 1. c. p. 48. 



C. monocephalus, Eoxb. Anosporum monocephalum, iV. 

 ab. E. in Wight Contrib. p. 92. 



Spec. Chae. Creeping : culm triangular, glabrous, 2-leaved at 

 the base : leaves equalling the culm, stiff, flat, scabrous at the 

 margin: capitule solitary, ovate-sub-globose, many-spiked: invo- 

 lucre 3 — 4-leaved, much exceeding the capitulum : ^iies numerous, 

 compact, ovate, compressed, 14 — 16-flowered : scales much ap- 

 proximated, and closely imbricated, ovate, acutely sub-mucronate, 

 compressed and boat-shaped, keeled above (keel a little scabrous), 

 many -nerved, brownish :: fruit (unripe) ovate-oblong, attenuated at 

 the apex into the style, internally flat, outwardly convex angular, 

 chestnut brown, spongy and whitish below. 



Bengal. SUhet. Peninsula. 



(26) C. TUBEEOSTJS. (Rottl.J 

 Ident. Eottb. Gram. 28.— Vahl. 1. c. 340. — Eoxb. 1. c. p. 203. 



8yn. C. stoloniferus, Ret%. Wight Contrib. p. %\. C. spadiceus 

 Lam. III. 



Migram. Eottb. 1. c. t. 7, fig. 1. 



Spec. Chae. Glaucous : root tuberous, stoloniferous : culm 

 triangular, glabrous, leafy at the base: leaves as long as the culm, 

 rigid, flat, keel and margin rough : umbel simple, about 8-rayed, 

 rays 3 — 9-spiked, involucre 3-leaved, very long: spikes fascicled, 

 linear-compressed, 18 — 24-flowered: scales ovate-obtuse, 7-nerved: 



