Schenus. IRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 189 
respect to the calyx, and smaller than it.— Filaments two, one 
rising laterally from the bosom of each valve of the corol; an- 
thers linear. Germ oblong, style deeply two-cleft. ^ Seed oval, 
rather longer than the calyx. Boos 
| SCH(NUS. Schreb: Gen. N. 92. 
Calyz, or Corol, glumes several; seed one, naked. 
1. S. articulatus. R. 
Culms three-sided, erect, from four to five feet high, jointed, leafy. 
| Corymbs terminal and axillary, compound and decompound, Style 
undivided. Seed obovate, beset with bristles, and crowned with the 
conic base of the Style. ' lin Tne aD 
Teting. Konda-tunga. 451 
A naive of marshy places up amongst the Circar mountains. It 
may be referred to Vahl.’s Rynchospora Enum. Pl. 9. 229. 
à Culms erect, three-sidea, leafy, jointed, smooth, from four to five 
feet high, angles sharp, between the joints fistulous.— Leaves ofthe | 
toot as long as the-culm, smooth, except that the margins are a 
little hispid, slender considering their great length, those of the culm 
from five to eight, sheathing, shorter than those of the root.—Um- 
bels the terminal one decompound, those only from the exterior ax- 
ils compound.— /nvolucre of the terminal umbel, from three to 
ut-lea ed, about as long as the umbel, leaf-like; the axillary um- 
bels have no involucre, or, at most, a very trifling one.— Flowers 
sub-solitary, chesnut-coloured.—Calyz none. Corol; petals four. 
Style undivided, with a permanent conical base.— Stigma entire, 
Tete. Brisiles, six permanent ones surrounding the germ.— Seed. 
* little compressed, crowned with a large brown, spongy, conical - 
body, the base of the style. ^ sz j 
` Obs. There is frequently a very slender male flower within 
large or inner glume of the corol ; it consists of one glume o1 
- ES stameus. The plant is so very coarse that cattle 
