Scirpus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA- 297 
a little twisted, and nearly as long as the culms.—Umbel generally 
simple, of from four to six sessile, or pedicelled, ovate-oblong brown 
spikes; sometimes one of the pedicels supports two spikes.— In- 
volucre one or two-leaved, small and shorter than the umbel.— 
Scales of the spikes ovate, chaffy.— Stamens two.— Style thick at 
the base; aper two-cleft, and villous.— Seed abcordate, furrowed 
longitudiually, and dotted with white on a brownish ground. 
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Culms twelve inches high, leafy, sub-cylindric. — Umbels thin, 
scarcely compound. Involucres minute. Style with enlarged base. 
Stigma three-cleft. Seed obovate, dotted, pearl-coloured. 
. A native of Coromandel. Fine es E 
Culms many, uncommonly slender, erect, about a foot high, to- 
ward the base invested with the sheaths of a few slender leaves.— 
Umbel very thin, composed of one sessile, oblong spike, and of 
from six to twelve or about half the number of pedicells of various 
lengths.—Involucres minute, the longest scarcely exceeding the 
sessile spike.— Scales boat-shaped, scariose, with a short point.— 
Style swelled at the base to the full size of the germ ; this swelled 
part, however, is not more permanent than the rest of the style. Stig- 
ma trifid.— Seed obovate, obscurely three-sided, much dotted, pearl- 
Coloured. 
34. S. (Rhynchospora ?) mollis. Wall. — 
Culms roundish, erect, longer than the narrow, setaceous, villous 
leaves; umbel composed of about seven unequal, one to three-spiked 
tays; involucre about. five-leaved, shorter than the umbel, villous; 
‘Spikes oblong scales; ovate, sub-aristate; smooth. - eu 
À native of Nepala, where it is found during the rainy seasom . 
: creeping, brown.— Cu/ms one or two feet high, jointless, 
Slightly furrowed and hairy, somewhat compressed at the top.— Leaves. 
a few towards the base of the culm, five or six inches long, chan-: 
helled above, with long membrane-margined, very hairy sheaths.- 
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