520 



pellucid, muticous, or terminated by a leaf : leaves shorter than the 

 culm, Unear, sub-cartilaginous at the margin, very minutely ser- 

 rulate and slightly scabrous, more or less eqiialling the culm : 

 leaflets of the involucre 2 — 4, shorter than the few-spiked 

 umbel: spikes sessile, compressed, 4 — 8, oblong-linear, 16 — 30- 

 flowered: scales many- (7 — 11) -nerved, keeled, red-rusty, mucro- 

 nulate : style 3-cleft : achenium triquetrous, chestnut brown, many 

 times shorter than the scales. 



NeUgherries. 



(56) C. OETZEXicoLA. (SteuAel.) 

 Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 37-. 



Spec. Chae. Culm lofty, acutely triquetrous : involucre many- 

 leaved : leaflets exceeding or nearly so the very large compound 

 umbel, remotely serrulate-scabrous at the keel and margin : rays 

 sessile and very long peduncled, umbellate at the apex : involucels 

 linear, remotely scabrous, shorter than the umbellet, raylets alter- 

 nately braohiate-spike-beariiig : spikelets narrow linear, elongated, 

 30 — 60-flowered, furnished at the base with 2 — 3 acute or bristly- 

 acuminate bracteoles : scales ovate, rusty yellow, sharp pointed : 

 achenium triquetrous, 2 — 3-times shorter than the scale. 



Eice-fields near Mangalore. 



(57) C. RACEMOSTJS.. (Ret%.) 



Ident. Eetz. obs. vi. 20.— Vahl. Enum. II. 355.— Wight Contrib. 

 p. 85. 



Syn. C. digitatus Roxb. 



Spec. Chae. Umbel decompound, fastigiate, many-rayed, rays 

 half-terete, straight, common and partial ones umbelled at the apex 

 from many sessile, linear, straight spikes : spikelets imbricated, 

 linear-lanceolate, compressed, somewhat ebracteolate, 5 — 10- 

 flowered : scales ovate, mucronate, tawny or rufous at the back : 

 caryopsis oval, white, inner side concave: involucre 10_-leaved, 

 erect : leaflets attenuated from a broader base, scabrous at the 

 margin, longer than the umbel : involucels leafy, exceeding or 

 equalling the umbel : radical leaflets broad-linear, longer than the 

 firm and taU culm. 



Peninsula. 



(58) C. MiTis. (BUudel.) . 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 316. 



Spec. Chae. . Culm leafy at the base, naked upwards, all parts 

 smooth : leaves sheathed linear, acute, quite glabrous, shorter than 



