518 



one leaflet almost twice longer than the capitule : leaves narrow- 

 linear, plaited and channelled: culm flaccid, triquetrous, longer than 

 the leaves : root flbrous. 



Peninsula. 



(49) C. PEETENTIIS. fEoxb.J 



Bent. Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. 202.— "Wight Contrib. p. 83. 



Spec. Chae. Culm 3 — 4-feet, trigonal above : leaves few, 

 radical, shorter than the culm : umbel compound and decompound : 

 involucre nearly equalling the umbel : spikelets lanceolate, many- 

 flowered : caryopsis 3-cornered. 



Near Calcutta. 



(60) C. EoxBtmomi. (N. ah. E ) 



Ident. Nees ab. Esenb. in Wight Contrib. p. 84. 



Syn. C. elatus, Rosol. 



Spec. Chah. TJmbel decompound and supra-decompound, con- 

 tracted : rays elongated, compressed and trigonal, fascicled and 

 umbelled from many fastigiate cylindric sub-sessile spikes : spikelets 

 imbricated, linear, ebracteolate, 12 — 16-flowered : scales closely 

 imbricated, embracing, roundish-ovate, obtuse with a small mucro : 

 caryopsis rfblong, 3-comered, acute at both ends, smooth : leaflets 

 of the many-leaved involucre twin, outer ones largest and with the 

 radical leaves broad : involucels narrow, shorter than the umbellet : 

 culm triquetrous, angles rough above, sides concave. 



Coromandel. Bengal. 



(51) C. EoTLEi. fW. Amott.J 



Ident. Am. in Wight Contrib. p, 85. 



Syn. C. digitatus, Nees ah. JSsenh. in Wight I. c. 



Spec. Chae. Umbel corapound, many-rayed, rays compressed, 

 straight, umbelled at the apex by 5 — 6 nearly equal erect, terete, 

 densely imbricated spikes •: spikelets lanceolate, compressed, ebrac- 

 teate, 4 — 14-flowered: scales ovate, obtuse, mucronate, yellow, 

 3-nerved at the back: caryopsis oval, smooth, triquetrous: involucels 

 2-leaved, shorter than the umbellet : involucre 6-leaved : leaflets 4, 

 longer than the umbel, linear : culm trigonal, smooth, 



Silhet. 



(52) C. NUAGiEicDS. (HocTist.) 



Ident. Hochst in Herb. Hohenhack, No. 945. — Steudel syn. pi. 

 Cyp.'p. 2. 



