234 ZRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Scirpur, 
ed.—Spikes, very minute,— Scales oval, concave.— Stamens solitary. 
—Style two-cleft.—Seed obcordate, a little compressi, eis 
Rested, and wrinkled transversely, . 
46. Sc. anceps. R. 
Culm erect, twelve inches high, i tcd Iuvoluere tnde 
ed, shorter than the super-decompound, four or ave rg inet ae 
umbel. 
Beng. Joopi. 
A native of Bengal. 
47. Sc. comosus. Wall. 
Glaucous. Léaves radical, together with those of the involvert 
very long, channelled, ending in a triangular capillary acumen. 
Corymb super-decompound, nodding. Spikesgeminate or ternate, se5" 
apost crowned with the long straight silvery hairs of the seeds. 
sA native 2 of "Nepala, where it is found among rocks. during the 
rains. 
- Root fibrous a Gales many, SAR erect, Eo six. to en oe or 
more inches long, very slender, s scarcely thicker than. a crow-quill, 
obscurely three-cornered, smooth, naked.— Leaves radical, numerous, 
embracing the base of the culm with their short brownish, membra- 
naceous sheaths, which burst on one side ; generally twice as long 25 
the culm, very narrow, slightly keeled, channelled above, the margins 
and keel scabrous, ending ima long three-cornered point.—'^ 
thesiinal unilateral and slightly nodding, composed of about twelve 
— unequal, slender, somewhat flattened, smooth rays from three tosis 
inches Jong, surrounded at the base with a short, brown, narrow, 
ineshesld: ochrea ; they end i in partial, more or less compound um- 
bellets, consisting in general of four or five simple or. divided short- 
capillary peduncles.—Involucrum consisting of five very long leave» 
resembling the radical ones, but somewhat broader at their bases 
embracing the apex of the culm with their brown, membrane-winge 
ed insertions; the largest Hei from twelve jo: ighteen ince? 
