555 



Spec. Chae. Spikelets somewliat in threes, very distant, one 

 sub-radical and! one intermediate androgynous, linear, males above, 

 long-peduncled, short-sheathed, uppermost one naked : stigmas 3 : 

 fruit coarse, ventricosely 3-oomered, beaked, densely and finely 

 striated, twice longer than the rhomb-ovate, obtuse scales : culm 

 3-cornered : leaves broadish-linear, flat, very acute, longer than 

 the culm. 



Eajmahal. 



(9) C. MYOSUHUS. fN. ah E.J 



Ident. Nees ab Esenb. in Wight Contrib. p. 122. 



Spec. Chae. Spikes compound, axillary, exserted, peduncled : 

 spikelets alternate, elongated, curved, many-flowered, above males : 

 stigmas 3 : ^uit trigonal, gibbous, attenuated at the base : beak 

 short, 2-cleft : segments praemorse : scales conformable, ovate, 

 membranaceous at the margin, lower ones quadrifarious, upper 

 ones from the middle males : leaves linear, long, scabrous at the 

 edges. 



Dindigul hiUs. 



(10) C. EAUOSA. (Schkuhr.j 



Ident. Schkuhr. Car. II. 40. 



Syn. C. cruciata, Wight Contrib. p. 124. 



Spec. Chae. Corymbs supra-decompound, divaricate, andro- 

 gynous, peduncled, remote : spikes fiUform, slender, above males : 

 stigmas 2 : finut lanceolate-triquetrous, beaked, bipartite, pubescent, 

 larger than the lanceolate mucronate scale. 



Peninsula. 



(11) C. MEIOSTNA. (N.ahE.) 



Ident. Nees ab Esenb. in Wight Contrib. p. 125. 



Spec. Chae. Spikes compound, axillary, lower ones exserted- 

 peduncled : spikelets alternate, approximated, terete, acute, loosely 

 scaly at the base, female : stigmas 3 : female scales smaller, ovate- 

 lanceolate, sub-acute, males more, closely imbricated, ovate, 

 obtuse, brown : leaves broadish linear, flat, floral ones usually 

 exceeding their own spikes. 



Peninsula. 



(12) C. Inmca. fZinn.J 

 Ident. Linn. Mant. 574.— Willd.— Wight Contrib. p. 123. 



