350 
FLORA OF THE SUNDRIBUNS. 
A submerged aquatic; properties unimportant. 
Distrib —Europe ; Temp, and Trop. Asia. 
306 . Naias Linn. 
269. Naias minor All. ; F. B. L vi. 569. N. dichotoma F. I. iii. 749. 
Pond at Jeodhara, Prain\ 
Vernac. yiidngi, 
A submerged aquatic; properties unimportant. 
Distrib. — General in the Eastern Hemisphere. 
LXXXI.-CYPERACEdE. 
307 . Kyllin^a Rottb. 
270. Kyllin^a triceps Rottb. ; F. I. i. 181 ; F. B. I. vi. 587. 
Jatta, among ruins, Prain ! j 
Vernac. Nirbishi. j 
A small sedge ; properties unimportant. ! 
Distrib. — Africa; S.-E. Asia; Australia. | 
308 . Pycreus Beauv. I 
271. Pycreus polystachyus Beauv.; F. B. I. vi. 392. Cyperus \ 
polystachyus F. I. i 193. 
In all the northern cleared or partially cleared spaces, plentiful ; 
also at the sea-face among sand, Heinig ! Prain ! 
Vernac. Jangli Modhi. 
A small glabrous sedge; properties unimportant, except that it is a sand- 
binding species. 
Distrib. — Cosmopolitan on or near tropical and sub-tropical sea-shores. 
309 . Cyperus Linn. 
Fruit, a plano-coovex nut, with a flat face next the rachilla; 
umbels compound ; leaves and bracts long , . inundatus. 
Fruit, an equilaterally trigonous nut 
Stoloniferous sedges; — 
Stolons long, hardening at length into woody rootstocks ; 
leaves short or o ; stems stout : — 
Leaves very few, 2-3 in. (rarely as much as 6 in.) 
long; rachilla with a very narrow wing; glumes when 
dry with their margins crisply incurved all round 
malaccensis. 
Leaves hardly any ; rachilla distinctly winged ; glumes 
when dry with their margins recurved tegetiformis. 
Stolons short, slender, with very slender stems 
scariosus. 
