519 



Spec. Chab. Eoot ascending, fibrous : culm 1| foot, triquetrous, 

 striated, smooth, thin, leafy below: leaves linear, narrow, flat, 

 smooth, shorter than the culm : involucre few-leaved, leaflets 

 resembling the stem ones, many times longer than the contracted 

 umbel, one or the other ray elongated, rest more or less sessile, 

 floriferous from the base : spikelets linear, flattened, 20 — 30- 

 flowered : scales ovale, concave, obtuse at the apex, muticous or 

 terminated by a veiy short mucronule, brown-rusty, nerveless 

 except the keel, white-membranaceous at the margin, at length 

 lacinulate-dentate : achenium three times shorter than the scale, 

 ovate, scarcely triquetrous, a little dotted' and warty. 



Neilgherries. 



(53) C. ATEOPEBEUGHfETTS. (StevAel.) 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Culm triquetrous, slender, erect, smooth, leafy 

 below : leaves narrow, shorter than or longer than the culm, 

 sKghtly scabrous above at the margin, rest smooth : leaflets of the 

 few-leaved involucre twin, many times exceeding the umbel, third 

 (when present) equalling it: umbel few-rayed, somewhat close 

 packed, rays from the base or more above somewhat distichously 

 spiked: spiketets somewhat linear-lanceolate, 8 — 15-flowered: 

 scales ovate, obtuse, dark-rusty, a little shining, nerveless except 

 the dark greenish keel: achenium somewhat compressed, ovate, 

 brownish, very thinly dotted. 



Neilgherries. 



(54) C. TENTTispiCA. fSteudel.J 

 Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 11. 



Spec Chae. Koot cisspitiferous : culms erect, flat-compressed, 

 striated: leaves 1 — 2 towards the base of the culm, sheathed, flat, 

 smooth, striated, shorter than the culm : leaflets of the 2 — 3-leaved 

 involucre unequal, shorter than the umbel, rays of the many- 

 nerved umbel unequal, umbelluliferous at the apex, raylets simple 

 or again umbeUulate, rays and raylets compressed, smooth : spike- 

 Jets very thin, many-flowered: scales yellowish-rusty, linear, 

 truncated, obtuse, muticous, easily deciduous : achenium some- 

 what spherical, slightly dotted, wrinkled, white. 



Near Mangalore. 



(55) C. PETEa)us. fHochst.J 



Ident. Hochst in Herb. Hohenhack, No. 1293.~Steudel 1. c. 

 p. 29. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot csespitiferous : culms very low, compressed 

 and triquetrous, scales at the base membranaceous, thin, ovate, 



