232 = dFANDHIA MONDOYNTA. «Sa 
- Root fibrous. Culms erect, from one tc two feet high, seven- 
eighths naked, generally round, though sometimes alittle compress- 
ed, and chiefly near the apex striated, um smooth.— Umbel de. 
. compound, very thin.—Involticre three or five-leaved, unequal, but ` 
the largest is seldom so long asthe umbel. — Incofucels like the invo- 
lucre, but much smaller.—Spikes sessile, or peduncled, oval, ruste — 
coloured, many-flowered.— Scales broad, alittle pointed, very con- ` 
cave.—Stamens two or three.— Style enlarged at the base, broad, 
with hairy margins. Stigma two-cleft.— Seed obcordate, compress- - 
ed, pearl;coloured, striated, without bristles. 
42. S. complanatus. Vahl. Enum. ii, 279. Retz. Obs. 5. 14. 
Culms sub-erect, from one to two feet high, edged. - Umbel from 
compound tosuper-decompound. Involucre two-leaved, erect; scales. 
lanceolate. Seed obcordate, dotted. iir 
Hind. Kuratéya-juvani, Put 
_A native of moist or wet sim ; ; 
- Root fibrous.—Culms nearly erect, but waving a little, (soil one 
to two feet high, naked, except at the base, compressed, two-edged j. | 
edges sharp, and turned different ways, striated, smooth, often a- 
little twisted.— Leaves radical, or embracing the base of the culm, 
nearly as long as the culm, linear, wayed, often a little twisted, . 
apex abrupt.— Umbel super-decompound, dense.— nzolucre two- Ln 
leaved, opposite, erect, unequal, the longest about the length of 
the umbel. Involuceis chaffy, ending like bristles.— Spikes. sessile, pi. 
or short-pedicelled, oblong, few-flowered .— Scales sust-coloured, E 
gir ek obcordate, rugose, wit << G 
43. S. tetragonus. R. z 
Culms from one to two feet high, four-angled. Uribel decom- : 
pound and super-decompound. Involucre and involucels | | bis 
scales roundish, diandrous. Seeds round. 
Hind. Baraj is 
Teling. Murcushalee. ~ 
Grows with the other species on moist pasture ground. 
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