— lary, and terminal, ,long-peduncted, o' al 
572 ° MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. Carex. 
Germ oblong, round it are three short, abortive stamina, 
Style two-cleft. Ma re rLowers three-fold, the two lateral. 
ones sessile, the middle one pedicelled, all have a two-valved 
calyx with two-valved flowers in each, Seed turbinate, 
smooth, of a dull pearl colour, the size of a pea. 
5, C. heteroclita. R. - 
Erect, ramous, hairy, Spikes terminal, single, or paired, | 
when two one is male, the other androgynous, with a jointed : 
rachis and the five or six female flowers thereof bracted.. | 
A native of theeastern partsof Bengal, where it flowers and 
ripens its seed toward the close of the rains, It is the smallest 
of the five species, being only about two, or at most three 
feet high, but very ramous. rte , 
B4: pumila, R. 
Leaves bifarious, linear-lanceolar, smooth. Pedunele ter- 
minal, naked, and not jointed, Male spikes with from three“ 
to four pairs of flowers ; female corol five-valved, ovate. — 
‘ Introduced from the Mauritius into the Botanic garden 
where it grows to be about eighteen inches high, every ait 
smooth, leaves nearly as long as the culms. a 
: CAREX. Schreb. gen. N. 1407. ad 
Ament imbricated on all sides, with one-flowered weld: f a8 
none, Male calyx, the superior scales of the ament. 
: me. . Female calyx, the inferior scales of the ament. 
Coral fask shaped. permanent, one-flowered. Stigma from _ 
two to three, Seed solitary, three-sided, enclosed in the. ease 
manent corol. ., 
LG i ceaacnioneia R. r 
Spikes sessile, androgynous, shu: ienaies Panicle 2 ani ae 
“es seed. three-cornered, Sagas m the ; bbed, 
