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Glabrous. Rhizome creeping. Stem 1 ft. high, rather stout, at the top trigonous and smooth. Leaves 3/4 the length of the stem, 1/6– 1/5 in. broad. Umbel 6–8 in. in diam., very dense; bracts overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 40–60 together in dense spikes, dusky straw-coloured, 1 1/2 by 1/12 in., up to 60-flowered, slightly compressed; wings of the rhachilla linear-lanceolate, falcate. Glumes approximate on the rhachilla, scarcely 1/12 in. long, ovate, obtuse. Nut 1/2 the length of the glume, ovoid, chestnut-black; style as long as the nut; branches 3, linear, exserted.

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Glabrous. Rhizome creeping. Stem 1 ft. high, rather stout, at the top trigonous and smooth. Leaves 3/4 the length of the stem, 1/6– 1/5 in. broad. Umbel 6–8 in. in diam., very dense; bracts overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 40–60 together in dense spikes, dusky straw-coloured, 1 1/2 by 1/12 in., up to 60-flowered, slightly compressed; wings of the rhachilla linear-lanceolate, falcate. Glumes approximate on the rhachilla, scarcely 1/12 in. long, ovate, obtuse. Nut 1/2 the length of the glume, ovoid, chestnut-black; style as long as the nut; branches 3, linear, exserted.

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Glabrous. Rhizome creeping. Stem 1 ft. high, rather stout, at the top trigonous and smooth. Leaves 3/4 the length of the stem, 1/6– 1/5 in. broad. Umbel 6–8 in. in diam., very dense; bracts overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 40–60 together in dense spikes, dusky straw-coloured, 1 1/2 by 1/12 in., up to 60-flowered, slightly compressed; wings of the rhachilla linear-lanceolate, falcate. Glumes approximate on the rhachilla, scarcely 1/12 in. long, ovate, obtuse. Nut 1/2 the length of the glume, ovoid, chestnut-black; style as long as the nut; branches 3, linear, exserted.