228 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Scirpus. 
Spikes sessile, or peduncled, oval, rust-eoloured, many-flow- 
ered. Scales broad, a little pointed, very concave. Siamens 
two or three. Style enlarged at the base, broad, with hairy. 
margins. Stigma two-cleft, Seed obcordate, compressed, 
pearl-coloured, striated, without bristles. 
40. S. complanatus. Vahl. enum. ii. 279, Retz. Obs. 5.14. 
Culms sub-erect, from one to two feet high, edged, Umbel 
from compound to super-decompound. Involucre two-leav- 
ed, erect; scales lanceolate, Seed obcordate, dotted. : 
Hind. Kuratiya juvani, .- 
A native of moist or wet places. i 
Root fibrous. Culms nearly erect, but waving a x: lites 
from one to two feet high, naked except at the base, compress- 
ed, two-edged; edges sharp, and turned different ways; _ 
striated, smooth, often a little twisted. Leaves radical, or em 
bracing the base of the culm, nearly as long as the culm, linear, 
waved, often a litile twisted, apex abrupt. Umbel super- 
decompound, dense. Involucre two-leaved, opposite, erect, 
unequal, the longest about the length of the umbel. Jnvolu- 
cels chafty, alin like bristles, Spikes sessile, or short+ 
pedicelled, oblong, few-flowered. Scales rust-coloured, acute. 
Seeds obcordate, nen’ ga 
Al. S. saieiloees R. | 
ey from one to two feet hicks jomnanaielic Vabel de. 
\d and super-decompound, Involgers and i lee 
bristly ; scales roundish, diandrous, Seed round, = 
Hind, Bura-juvani. 
Teling. Murcushalee. 
Grows with the other species on moist pasture ground, 
Root fibrous, Culms nearly erect, from one to. two feet 
high, naked, except at the base, four-sided, smooth. Leaves 
radical, and about the base of the culm, bifarious, aperina 7 
Sap canis «9 the calm. Rapier: le | 
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