511 



achenium somewhat rounded, elliptic, obsoletely dotted, half the 

 length of the scale. 



Peninsula. 



(27) C. PEOCEETJUTS. fN. al. E.) 



Ident. Nees ab. Esenb. in Wight Contrib. p. 82. 



Spec. Chae. Umbel decompound, contracted : rays very unequal, 

 larger ones 3-cleft : spikelets spicately approximated, spreading 

 lanceolate-linear, somewhat 30-flowered, compressed : scales ovate, 

 muticous : bracts in the place of iavolucels altemate, linear, ovate 

 at the base : caryopsis short, obovate, 3-oornered, muoronate, dotted 

 and -wTuikled : leaflets of the 3 — 5 -leaved involuorq 1-^2, longer 

 than the umbel and with the linear leaves equalling the culin, flat, 

 flaccid, scabrous at the margin : culm leafy at the base, trigonal, 

 smooth : root bulbous. 



Peninsula. 



(28) C. AETicuiATirs. (Linn. J 



Linn. sp. 66.— Eottb. Gram. 26. — Vahl. 1. c. 301.— 

 Wight Contrib. p. 80. 



Syn. C. articulatus et nodosus, Willd. — C. niloticus, Forah 

 Vahl. II. 302. — C. nudus, Roxh. I. p. 191 — C. gymnos, Boem. 

 and Schult. — C. flavescens, Sieh. Agrost. n. 107. 



Spec Chab. Culm terete, chequered with transverse dissepi- 

 ments, leafless, sheathing at the base, glabrous-: umbel compound, 

 many-rayed : involucre 2 — 3-scaled, very short : spikes 3 — 14, 

 spicately fascicled, elongated, linear, compressed, 30 — 40-flowered : 

 scales convex boat-shaped, obtuse, 6- — 7-nerved at the back : stamens 

 3 : style very long : achenium oblong, triangular, mucronate, three 

 tinies shorter than the scale : rhacheola winged. 



Peninsula. 



(29) C. sEMiinnms. (Roxh.) 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 187.— Wight Contrib. p. 80. 



Syn. C. Koenigii, Vahl. 



Spec. Chae. Culm terete, equal, leafless, sheathing at the base, 

 glabrous : umbel compound, somewhat corymbose, somewhat 10- 

 rayed : involucre somewhat 3-leaved, short : spikes 3 — 8, spicately 

 fascicled, elongated, linear, compressed, 28 — 33-flowered: scales 

 convex-navicular, obtuse, 5-nerved, rusty red: style very long: 

 rhacheola winged, wings at length loosening. 



Silhet. 



