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Seleria. MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. * Sie 
A native of Silhet, and the only species I have ever met 
with in India. The culms are long, slender, smooth, and 
three-sided, leaves very long and slender with a sheathing tu- 
bular base. 
SCLERTA. Schreb. gen. N. 1408. 
Male spikelets imbricated, many-flowered. Female flow- 
ers solitary, or with one or two male ones in the same two to 
six-valved calyx. Corol three-parted. Seed or nut globular. 
LS. Stoves . : 
Culm three-sided, leafly. Leaves ensiform, smooth. Pa- 
‘+ nicles axillary and terminal, contracted. Flowers of both 
six-pedicelled. Female calyx two-flowered, one of them _ 
male, 
A native of Bengal. Flowers during the rains. 
* Root of numerous, rust-coloured fibres, Culms from 
one to two feet long, leafy, smooth, three-sided with the an- 
gles sharp. Leaves very numerous, shorter than the culms, 
sheathing, sword-shaped, much keeled, smooth. Panicles 
axillary and terminal, small. Male spikelets short-pedicel- 
led, oblong, imbricated with oblong concave scales, the low- 
er two or three abortive,and may be called a common calyx ; 
the rest containing three stamens each; beside these there 
are some others which embrace the base of each pedicel like 
the perechetium of Hypnum, Filaments permanent, form- 
ing a pencil from the spires of the spikelets. Anthers li- 
neat, incumbent, caducous, FeMALe FLoweERs short-pedi- 
celled, with scales at the base of the pedicels as in the male. 
Calyx three-valved, two-flowered, one of which isa small — 
male corollet with a two-valved corol, and three stamens. 
of the female flower, small, three-parted 5 “divisions 
: “Germ round. Style single. Stigmas three, -Peri- 
“ery nut Sr iy wrinkled, Sensis = solitary, i in the = 
