184 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Schonus, 
Involucre two or three-leaved, very unequal, the largest from 
five to eight inches, the shortest one, or one and a half, Calyx 
as in T. triceps, only sometimes three-lobed at the apex. The 
rest as in T. triceps. lee 
8. T. diandra. R, 
Culms leafy, two or more feet high, three-sided ;_ cor: ymbs 
terminal; involucres alternate, Flowers sins lniehs Siyle 
two-cleft, . . 
A stout, erect, smooth, Jong-leaved species; a native of 
Amboyna. . 
Culm jointed, three-sided, smooth. eaves one at each 
joint, sheathing, rismg much higher than the culm, linear, 
smooth, acute, three-nerved, about three feet long. . Corymbs 
terminal, decompound or more, Jnvolucres several, the larg- 
est at the first division of the corymbs, and like the leaves of 
the culm, but smaller; spikelets oval, minute, composed of 
many sma}| brown imbricated flowers as in the seripi, Calyx, 
a glume, roundish, smooth, Corol ; the two valves, small, 
placed transversely with respect to the calyx, and smaller 
than it, Filaments two, one rising laterally from the bosom 
of each valve of the corol; anthers linear. Germ oblong; 
style deeply two-cleft. Reed ahr rather ae than the 
calyx. ; 
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| SCHENUS. Schreb. gen. N. 92. 
Calyx, or Corol, glumes several ; seed one, naked. 
“1S. articulatus, R. 
Culms three-sided, erect, from four to five feet high, joint- 
ed, leafy. Corymbs terminal and axillary, compound and _ 
decompound. Style undivided. Seed obovate, beset with 
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