224 | qRIANDRIA MONOGYN TAs p Seirpus; | 
large, with a large keél and sharp point. —Style enlarged at the basé. 
Stigma three-cleft. — Seed three-sided, very scabrous, pearl-coloured. 
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06. S. tristachyos. Vahl. Enum. ii: 954. 
Culms from six to eight inches long, slender, curved, ‘striated. 
-. Leaves shorter than the culms. Spikes from two to four, oblong. In- 
volucre two-leaved, one longer than the spikes, apparently a conti- - 
nuation of the culms. Style two-cleft, villous. Seed obcordate. 
A native of Bengal, appears during the cool season in low moist. ; 
places. 
Root fibrous, brown. —Culms numerous, in tufts, slender, Vale 
ously bent, though nearly erect, slender, grooved, particularly dep | 
on the opposite sides, from six to eight inches high.— Leaves few, 5 
subulate, hard, half the length of the culms.— Spikes generally dier 
varying bowever from one to five, sometimes short-peduncled, ob- 
long.—{nvolucre, two-leaved; one erect, longer than the spikes, 
seems a continuation of the culm.—Scales oval, somewhat mue 
cronate.—Germ cordate. Style villous. Stigma two-cleft. 
Obs- It differs from Rottboell’s plant in having the scales mucro- 
: nate, and the signe two-cleft ; yet I think ur must be the same. 
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P S. squarrosus: Linn. Sp. Pl.ed. Willd. i. 308. Rottb. gram, 
40. t. 17. f. 5. IN 
Culms from three to six inches long. Spikes three ; involucre ; 
bic Scales — in a "€ recurved ind horn. Sak ane 
- Motta-pullu. Rheed. mal. 12. P 72. ü 58. 
Beng. Goo. 
A small delicate species, growing in distinct tufts on dry sandy | ; 
pasture ground, 
Root fibrous.— Culms numerous, bent in various Fr Dans from 4 
three to six inches long, four-fifths naked, round, smooth, filiform. 
; — Leaves a few only, sheathing, shorter considerably than the culm. | x 
_ Spikes terminal, generally three, sessile, oval. —Involucre t two | 
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