178 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Xyris. 
sules erect, three-sided, Clavate ; pedicel included, about half — 
an inch long, three-celled, opening at the apex. Seeds very 
numerous, and too minute to admit of my ascertaining their 
internal structure. 
2.8. emaculata, Roxb. 
Leaves opposite, unequally narrow-cordate, acute, bristly, 
but void of spots, serrulate, ciliate. 
_ A native of the Khassee mountains on the iiirth ott 
border of Bengal, where it flowers in July, and differs from 
the preceding species, in the leaves being destitute of the 
little round white spots, into which the bristles are inserted, 
(viz. one in the centre of each spot.) It is also less robust 
than that plant, with longer peduncles to the racemes, which 
are sometimes leaflet-bracted at the middle, £98 
The flowers and seed vessels are alike. Qos asia 
3. 8S. angustifolia. Roxb. piees 
Leaves opposite, unequally oblong: ance, — 
hairy, 
A native of the mountains on the sisi eee of 
Bengal, and like the two former species in habit, but the 
— of the leaves = a —. a little hairy. 
ALS, soiteeciink R, PSY fit ; 3 
_ Sub-caulescent. Leaves in pairs, sate; So; tg one minute 
atid nearly’ round, the oo ee cordate, = 
umbelled, — . AX an 
A native of the Sebo Islands, 
XYRIS. Schreb. gen. N.89. _. 
Head with roundish one-flowered scales, Perianth uicaill 
‘three-leaved. Corol three-petalled, equal, waved. Nectaries 
; bats neh coe one-celled, eotysahetaae 3 Seeds 1 nu 
