354A. mmüpm oiov. © Rliberllia. 
prid ed à as long as s the joints ‘of the rachis .— Calyx one-flower- 
ed, two-valyed, smooth, cartilaginous. ` The exterior valve of one 
of the pair obliquely emarginate, the other acute —Corol, the her- 
Ps maphrodite and male three-valved, one valve on the inside, and two 
on the outside ; all tinged with —€ red at the base. 
2. R. compressa. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 465. Corom. Pri ii EL 
156. Retz. Obs. ii; 19. — , 
Culms climbing, from five to twenty feet high, smooth, compress- 
ed; spikes axillary and terminal; rachis jointed ; flowers opposite, 
- hermaphrodite calyces one-flowered. ^ Corol three-valved. 
Beng. Pansheroo. ; 
- Teling. Shervoo, i. e. lake panookoo. 
Is found on the borders of lakes, amongst other roots of long grass, 
and brush wood. . | f = 
Culms” several, creeping or Neng ramous, compressed, from 
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x: ive to twenty feet long, ‘piped, smooth, ~about as thick as a com- 
mon quill, and very hard.— Leaves numerous, bifarious, small for the 
size of the plant, smooth and soft ; sheaths short, compressed, and 
smooth.—Spikes peduncled, terminal, and from the exterior axills, 
generally from two to five together, compressed, a little smooth, from 
two to four inches long.— Peduncles articulated at the middle and 
there bracted, lanceolate, chaffy, bractes also surround their inser- 
tion. —Flowers all hermaphrodite, opposite, decussated, lodged in 
the excavations of the jointed rachis. — Calyx one-flowered, two- 
valved, valves nearly equal; the flowers have alternately their valves 
_ pointed and somewhat longer than the excavation in the rachis, both 
cartilaginous;—and obtuse, equal to the pits in the rachis, with the ex- 
terior one only cartilaginous.—Corol three-valved, valves membrana- 
ceous. Nectary, two triangular bodies: embracing the base of the 
stamens and germ.— —Stamens three.— Styles es — p 
E c. R. exaltata. Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. Willd.i i. 466. Corom: Pi.2. N. 157. 
Polygamoas. Culms erect, hirsute, from six to ten feet high. 
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