574 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA, Seleria. 4 
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Culm three-sided, leafy. Leaves with bispid margins, Pa- 
nicles axillary and terminal, patent. Male and female spikes 
distinct and sessile. Female flowers with the rudiments of 
one or two male corollets. Seed round, ovate, dotted. 
Carex lithosperma, Linn. 
Kaden-pullu. Rheed, Mal. xii. ¢. 48. 
Teling. Konda-shaka-tonga. 
A native of the valleys amongst the mountains of Coro- 
mandel. 
2. S. lithosperma, Willd. iv. 316. 
3. S. tenuis. Willd. iv. 316. 
Culms slender, acutely three-angled, smooth, Leaves long, 
slender and smooth. Panicles slender, Flowers in remote 
fascicles. Seed obovate, obsoletely three-sided, polished, 
white. 
A native of the Moluccas, from two to three feet high, ie 
and simple, the axillary panicles excepted. _ 
ACS. devia. Willd, iv. 314. 
Culms erect, three-sided, smooth, eaves slender and 
smooth. Panicles oblong, divided by various sized involu- 
_ eres, Female flowers sessile. Seed oblately spheroidical, — 
even and polished. g 
__ Anative of the Malay Archipelago. | 
Culm ‘erect, from fouy)'t tore: feet high, reconigedle 
aie leafy. Leaves smooth, three-nerved. Corymbs axil- 
lary, compouud. Seeds ovate, somewhat acute, shite, 
white, obscurely three-cornered. 
A native of the moist valleys of Chittagong, want grors 
to the height of from four-to six feet. Stout in proportions 
smooth in every part, and replete with very Jog inet 
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