514 



(36) C. VENUSTTO. (B. Br.) 



Ident. Brown Prod. 217.— "Wight Contrib. p. 86. 



8yn. C. aurioorcuB, Spreng. syst. I. 230. — C. Xanthocomus, 

 Link. — C. fastigiaiuo, Rotth. — Papyrus venustus, Nees. ah. Eserib. in 

 Linncea x. 138. 



Engram. Eteede Mai. xii. t. 42. — Eottb. 1. c. t. 7, fig. 2. 



Spec. Chae. Culm triquetrous, leafy at the base, glabrous : 

 leaves S-nerved, flat, scabrous at the margia : umbel compound, 

 many-rayed, rays somewhat digitately branched at the apex : in- 

 volucre 5-leaved, very long : ' spikes spieately arranged in long 

 branches, patent, narrow Hnear, compressed, 10 — 16-flowered : 

 scales keeled and boat-shaped, ovate, mucronate, Uneolate : style 

 exserted : achenium oblong, slightly arched, externally convex- 

 angular, very finely dotted, a half shorter than the scale. 



Peninsula. 



(37) C. EXAiTATtrs. fBet%.J 



Ident. Eetz. obs. v. 11.— Vahl. Enum. II. 366.— Wight Contrib. 

 p. 84. 



Syn. C. altus, iV. aib. IS. in Wight I. e. — C. alopecuroides, Eoxh. 

 — C. CEinaliculatus, Setz. 



Spec. Chab. Culm triangular, glabrous, leafy at the base : leaves 

 flat, serrulate-scabrous at the margin : umbel compound or decom- 

 pound, many-rayed : involucre 3 — 4-leaved, very long : ochreae 

 2-cleft : spikes numerous, spieately arranged, lanceolate-Hnear, com- 

 pressed, 20 — 24-flowered : scales roundish-ovate, keeled and navi- 

 cular, mucronate, obsoletely 7-nerved : achenium elliptic, triangular, 

 2 — 3 times shorter than the scale. 



Peninsula. Lower Bengal. 



(38) C. TERTICILIAIUS. (BjOxh.) 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. 206.— Wight Contrib. p. 87. 



Spec. Chae. Culm leafy, trigonal : umbel decompound and 

 supra-decompound: spikelets spiked, packed together, Unear- 

 subulate, 8 — 9-flowered, shortly bracteolate, and with the lowest 

 partial spikes very patent : scales ovate, slightly obtuse with a 

 mucro, 7-nerved at the back, sides yellow : involucels linear, almost 

 equalling the umbel : leaflets of the many-leaved involucre com- 

 monly exceeding the umbel and with the leaves broad-linear, serru- 

 late-scabrous at the margin. 



Peninsula. 



