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230° TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Scirpus, 
AA, Sc. anceps. Rs — ‘ 
Culm erect, twelve inches high, Seewdepnds Tincinot 
two-leaved, shorter than the miperutenetay ena a or five 
times-divided umbel. 
Beng. Joopi. 
A native of Bengal. . 
45. Se. Kysoor. R. 
Culms from five to six feet high, triangular, and biepid: 
Umbel super-decompoand, Spikes ovate, Seed oblong, 
three-sided, crowned; and beset with five villous bristles, 
Beng. Kesoor or Kesooree. 
Common in Bengal, growing on the borders of biked; onal 
&e. of fresh water, in flower on the latter ee of the 
rains, i 
‘Root tuberous, with numerous ferruginous fibres. Culms 
straight, from four to six feet high, three-angled, the sides 
deeply grooved and the angles very sharp, and backwardly: 
hispid. Leaves several to each culm, and about their length, 
sheathing at the base, above that part deeply channelled, 
with the margins and keel while young, somewhat hispid, and 
the points Sesig and subulate. Umbel terminal, super-de-. 
compound, —Involucre about three, very unequal, the larg- 
est from one to two feet long, and the shortest as many 
inches; resembling the leaves in form. Spikes ovate, brown. 
_ Scales roundish oval, concave, chafiy, brown, smooth; the _ 
rib’ or nerve ending in a subulate point beyond the rounded 
apex. Stamens three-on the exterior side of the germ, one- 
bearded bristle between each filament, and three on the back, 
making in all five. Germ ovate. Style with swelled; per- 
manent, cordate base. Stigma  three-cleft. Seed oben? 
three-sided, surrounded by the five-bearded bristles, — 
‘Obs, It approaches Sc. grossus. Vahl, enum, ii, 270; the 
} test marks to distinguish them by, are the bristles which em- 
brace’ the germ, and continue with the. seedsheretheyare 
five in numb 
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