515 



(39) C. PHOCEExrs. fFahl.J 



VaU. herb.— Kunth 1. c. p. 72.— Wight Contrib. p. 83 ? 



C. carnosus, Wight I. e. — C. tenuiflorus, Roxh. 



Spec. Chae. Culm triquetrous, leafy at the base : leaves longer 

 than the culm, keeled, spongy and thickish : umbel compound, 

 many -rayed, rays brachiately branched above, flexuose : spikes spi- 

 cately arranged, distichous, much spreading, linear, compressed, 

 many-flowered : involucre 3-leaved, leaflets scabrous on the margin 

 and keel, one very long : scales ovate, elliptic, rounded at the apex, 

 9 -nerved, keeled and navicular, pale-chestnut : aohenium obovate, 

 triangular : a half shorter than the scale. 



Peninsula. 



(40) C. Eetzii. fN. ah. E.) 



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



Syn. C. Pangorei, Keen, in Rett. ohs. ill. 10. 



Spec. Chae. Umbel decompound and supra-decompound, spread- 

 ing: larger rays 3-cleft at the apex: spifcelets spicate, approximated, 

 alternate, patent, lanceolate-linear, somewhat 20-flo'wered, com- 

 pressed: scales ovate, attenuated at the apex, acute, muticous, 

 rusty : bracts alternate instead of involucels, bristly from a broadish 

 base, exceeding the ochreolse : caryopsis oval-3-comered : one or the 

 other leaflet of the 3-leaved involucre longer than the umbel and 

 with the leaves linear, flattish, smooth : culm triquetrous, smooth, 

 leafy at the base. 



Peninsula. 



(41) C. WAiiicnn. fN. ah. E.) 



Ident. Nees. ab. E. 1. c. p. 83. 



Spec. Chae. Culm triquetrous, scabrous at the angles above, 

 leafless : umbel compound, many-rayed : rays brachiately 3 — 7- 

 cleft at the apex : involucre somewhat 4-leaved, exceeding the 

 umbel : spikes 5 — 15, spicately arranged, distichous, linear, com- 

 pressed, 11 — 1 5 -flowered : scales ovate-roundish, con vex-navicular, 

 5 — 7 -nerved at the back : achenium obovate-elliptic, triquetrous, 

 mucronate, almost a half shorter than the scale. 



. Lower Bengal. 



(42) C. PEiTNAius. (Lam.) 



Idmt. Lam. 111. I. 144. Vahl. Enum. II. 305. 

 Syn. C. canescens, Vahl. Wight. Contrih. p. 84. C. parviflorus, 

 Vahl. 



