523 



late-oblong, triangular, beaked with the persistent pyi-amidate 

 continuous base of the style. — Culm slender, triangular, striated, 

 leafy at the base : leaves long, linear, flat, membranaceous, scabrous 

 at the margin: umbel compound, many rayed: capitules sub- 

 globose, many-spiked: involucre 4-leaved, very long: scales rusty, 

 mueronate at the apex. 



(1) C. CYPEEoroEs. (JV. ah. E.) 



Jdmt. Nees ab. Esenb. in Wight Contrib. p. 92. 



Syn. KyUingia cyperoides, Roxb. — Mariscus cyperoides, Bietr. 

 Spec. II., 348. 



Peninsula. 



GENUS IV. KTLLINGIA. 



Vvlandria. Iflonog'yiiia. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. Named after P. Eylling, a Danish botanist, who died in 

 1696. 



Gen. Chas. Spikes compressed, 1 — 2-flowered, upper flower 

 male, seldom 3-flowered : scales distichous, fertile ones keeled, 

 sterile (2 lower ones) smaU : bristles and small scales none : stamens 

 1 — 3 : ovary compressed at the sides : style 2-cleft, deciduous : 

 achenium compressed at the sides, pointed. — Culms leafy at the 

 base, very seldom leafless : leaves grassy : capitules solitary, seldom 

 twin or in threes, ccfmpact, involucrate. 



(1) K. MOJTOCEPHALA. (Imn.) 



Ident. Linn. Suppl. 104.— Vahl. II. 379.— Koxb. flor. Ind. I. 

 185.— Wight Contrib. p. 91. 



Syn. Schoenus coloratus, i«»».-^Scirpus cephalotes, Vind. 

 Jacq. I. 42. 



Engrm. Eottb. Gram. 13, t. 4, fig. 4. 



Spec. Chae. Creeping : culms erect, triangular, leafy at the 

 base : leaves membranaceous, flat, ciliolate with fine spines at the 

 margin and keel : capitule solitary, globose, dense : involucre 

 3 — 4-leaved, very long : spikes 1-flowered : upper scales equal, 

 compressed and boat-shaped, thick and crested above, crest ciliated, 

 sharply mueronate, purple-dotted, 7-nerved, upper one more deeply 

 inserted : stamens 2 : achenium elliptic, straw-yellow. 



Peninsula. 



(2) K. BEEVIFOLIA. (Rottl.J 



Ident. Eottb. Gram. 13.— Vahl. Enum. II. 380.— Wight 

 Contrib. p. 91. 



