n o. cypeiuoej:. 1353 



N. 0. CYPERACEiE. 



1324. Kylinga triceps Botib., h.f.b.i., VI. 587. 

 Sans.: — Nirvisha. 



Vern. :— Nirbisi (H.) ; Svetagothubi, nirbishi (B.) ; Mottenga, 

 peemottenga (Mai).; Mustu (Mar.). 



Habitat -From N-W. India and Sind to Bengal, Burma and 

 Ceylon. 



Leaves as long as (rarely longer), but usually shortei than, the 

 stem, T a -i in. broad, linear, acute. Spikes ovoid-oblong or 

 subcylindric, usually 3 together (rarely solitary), the middle one 

 the largest, -g-i in. in diam.; rhachis clothed, after the fall of 

 the spikelets, with the persistent lower glumes ; bracts beneath 

 the head 3-4, leaf-like, up to Sin. long. Two lower glumes 

 hyaline, the lowest lanceolate, acuminate, soin. long, the second 

 ,anceolate or suborbicular, the third and fourth herbaceous 

 membranous, green, not speckled with brown, ovate-lanceolate, 

 obtusely apiculate, strongly nerved, the uppermost (fourth) rather 

 the longest, rViV 11 - long. Stamens 2. Nut oblong or ellipsoid- 

 oblong, yellowish-brown, much compressed, T V n - long ; style 

 with 2 filiform stigmas, together nearly as long as the nut. 

 (Cooke). 



1325. K. monocephala, Eottb. h.f.b.i., vi. 588, 

 Roxb. 61. 



Habitat : — Common throughout India. 



Sparsely hair} 7 , stems 2-12in., usuully solitary, erect from a 

 creeping rootstock. Leaves shorter than the ste m, T V"6 i n - broad. 

 Spikes solitary rarely, two or three, the lateral very small, medium 

 i-|in. diam ; rhachis naked or pitted after the fall of the 

 spikelets, the lowest glumes being for the most part deciduous ; 

 bracts long, narrow ; spikelets lain., 1-fid ; glumes : I, lanceo- 

 late, very variable in length and venation acuminate, with 

 sometimes a capillary point. II, broadly ovate, tip rounded, 

 veins few. Ill and IV, green, sparingly speckled with biown, 

 cuspidately acuminate, keel dorsally winged about the middle, 

 wings spinulose, veins 6-8 in each, upper longest, more or less 

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