184 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA« | JFuirentt, 
just long enough to raise their expanding, oval, crenate borders above 
the scales.— Nectary, three filaments inserted, alternately with the pes 
tals, round the base of the germ ; apex two-cleft, each division end» 
ingin a pencil of fine yellow hairs ; adhering firmly at the cleft to 
the edges of the petals, near the apex of the claws.— Filaments 
three, short, broad, erect, inserted on the inside of the apex of the 
claws of the petals. | Anthers twin, erect, united by a continuation 
of the filament.—Gerzi superior, three-sided. Style length of the claws’ 
of the petals, from thence three-cleft. Stigmas torn.— Capsule three- 
valved, one-celled. Seeds numerous, attached to a heel down the 
inside of each valve. : 
Obs. The following account of the virtues of this plant I have been 
favoured with, by the Honourable John Hyde, whoinforms me that 
“the natives of Bengal esteeia it a plant of great value because 
they think it an easy, speedy, and certain cure for the troublesome 
irruption called ring worms." This accords with what Van Rheede 
says of it, at page 139 of the 9th volume of the Hortus Malabaricus, 
viz. Foliorum succus cum aceto mixtus impetigini resistit. Folia 
cum radice oleo incocta contra lepram sumuntur. | 
FUIRENA. Schreb. Gen. N. 90. 
Ament imbricated on all sides with tailed scales. Coral threes 
petalled. Seed naked. j^ 
3. F. ciliaris. R. 
"Dil: erect, about twelve inches, columnar, jointed; leafy. Leaves 
hairy. Heads axillary and terminal. Scales very hairy. — 
three. Seeds three-sided. Be c 
Scirpus ciliaris. ae Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 309; Rottb. gram. hr | 
t. 17- f. 1. 
Teling. Elagabora gaddi. 
A native of moist places on the Coast of "Coromandel, aia - 
_ Scirpi, &c. 
- Root. fibrous.— Culyis nearly abet, about a foot high rout 
