H. O. 0YPE1U0E®. 
1353 
N. 0. CYPERACEiE. 
1324. Kylinga triceps Rottb., vi. 587. 
Sans.: — Nirvislia. 
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 shorter than; the 
stem, j in. broad, linear, acute. Spikes ovoid-oblong or 
subcylindric, usually 3 together (rarely solitary), the middle one 
the largest, 4-1 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 3in. long. Two lower glumes 
hyaline, the lowest lanceolate, acuminate, ^in. 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, rVrh' n - long. Stamens 2. Nut oblong or ellipsoid- 
oblong, yellowish-brown, much compressed, ^in. long ; style 
with 2 filiform stigmas, together nearly as long as the nut. 
(Cooke). 
1325. K. monocephala, Rottb. ii.f.b.i., vi. 588, 
Roxb. 61. 
Habitat Common throughout India. 
Sparsely hairy, stems 2-12in., usuully solitary, erect from a 
creeping rootstock. Leaves shorter than the ste m, T Vi in- broad. 
Spikes solitary rarely, two or three, the lateral very small, medium 
£-|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 join., 1-fid ; glumes : I, lanceo- 
late, very variable in length and venation acuminate, with 
sometimes a capillary point. II, broadly ovate, tip Tounded, 
veins few. Ill and IV, green, sparingly speckled with brown, 
cuspidately acuminate, keel dorsally winged about the middle, 
wings spinulose, veins 6-8 in each, upper longest, more or less 
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