Scirpus. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 239 
—Involacels consisting of a few chaffy, brown, subulate scales.. 
Spikes very numerous, about three lines long, terminal, or lateral, 
sessile, geminate, sometimes ternate ; some single  pedicelled ones are 
crowded in the centre of the general and partial umbels.— Scales’ 
lanceolate, keeled, brown, with short subulate points; the lowermost 
broader and sub-aristate, barren.— Ovarium linear, oblong, surround 
ed at the base by about twelve silvery, shining straight hairs, which’ 
are twice as long as the scales. — trifid, scabrous, shorter than 
the hairs. © 1 
Obs. 'This beautiful grass, which I have —R( both from vm 
mandu and Gossein-Than, an uninhabited place’ at the foot of the’ 
Himalaya mountains, from whence Mr. Gardner, the Honourable: 
Company’s Resident at Nepala, has sent me the most rare plants, 
comes near Sc. eriophorus and like that connects the genus Scirpus 
with Eriophorum. It differs in its shorter and smaller stature, and 
in haviag oblong sub-cylindric spikes. Perhaps it is only a variety 
of that species Pw. W. 
48. Sc. Kysoor. R. 
Culms from five to six feet high, triangular, and hispid. Umbet 
super-decompound. Spikes ovate. ` Seed tte ——— 
crowned, and beset with five villous bristles. ` ih 
eng. . Kesoor or Kesooree. ; | aes 
Common i Bengal, growing on the batter’ of lakes, ponds, a 
of fresh x water, in flower during the latter part of the rains. - 
vé to each ‘culm, and tick their length, i Was a it Ar pass; 
above that | part deeply channelled, with the margins and keel. 
while | young, somewhat hispid, and the points long and subuk og 
ete, ey og ee n about es & 
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