Tunga. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 187 
unequal; the largest leaf often as long as the culm; partial, none. 
Calyx and corol, &c. as in the genus. Seeds three-sided. 
_ Obs. As this plant wants the partial involucre it may be K. sue 
matrensis of Retzius. 
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4. K. cyperoides. R. | 
~ Culins from six to- eight inches high, three-sided. Umbel com- 
pound, consisting of globular heads of numerous spikelets, involucre 
three-leaved. Seed oblong, three-sided. 2 
An elegant cyperus looking small species, a native of moist pasa 
ture ground. : š So m 
, Atvot fibrous. — Culms erect, twosthirds naked, from six to eight 
inches higb, three-sided, smooth.— Leaves sheathing, as long as the 
culm. Involucre ; universal, three-leaved, very unequal, the largest - 
leaf being as long as the culm, and the smallest one inch, partial, 
minute.— Calyr, corol, &c. as in the genus, excepting that there are 
sometimes two flowers in thé same calyx. 
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TUNGA. R, 
Ament ovate, imbricated on all sides. Calyx one-valved, one- 
flowered. Corol two-valved. Seed naked. i 
The plants which come under this definition I cannot by any 
means reconcile to the character of Schaaus, nor indeed to Any genus 
; m to me. I have therefore constituted a new one of them, un- 
der th Telinga name Tunga, which is applied to the whole family 
; of Calamarie. Linn. Cypervidee. Juss. This genus is probably the 
same as Vahl’s Hypaelyptum. pi s uc : 
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VT. triceps Re | 271 aibi 
` Culms from four to eight inches high, a little compressed; spth E 
d ° or three, terminal ; 4nzolucre two-leaved, ee ot 
-T A native ‘og Coromandel, growing with other cyperi. 
S. Root fibrous. — Culms erect, mostly naked, from four to 
shes high, a little compressed, smooth.— Leaves she thing, 
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