Tunna, triandria moxogytha. 1S-3 



TUNGA. R. 



Anient ovate, imbricated on all sides. Calyx ooe-val 

 one-flowered. Carol two-vaWed. -See rf naked. 



The plants which come under definition I cannot by any 

 mea ns He to the don c lei of > <: I ■ ■ ■ I . nor indeed I j 



anv genu known hi ma I have there: stil - 



of them, under the Telin^ananie Tmtga. which is «p\ 

 to the whole rami' Linn, t -<b. Joss. 



Una genus n probably the « ■ - V . '- // rh/ptum, 



1. T. /W^c. j?. 



I fata from four to eight inches high; a little uufwuw i il ; 



tfihk i ihree. terminal ■ inrobicre Iwi 



A native ot Coromandel. growing with other cyperi. 

 Root fitmmw, I bu ens r . mostly naked, from four to 



eight inches fcugh, a little com; - ' . /-- 



sheathmo-. brand, nearly as long n the culm. ISfika tern. 



rail v three, sessile, oval, nabii ^ith innumerable 



small rust-c uloured lowon I here tw o l e aved, the] . 



e^t is often erect, and looks like a continuation of the cuhn. it 



is. from two to three inches long: bed - -' leae there are 



two or more oval, lateral, scales. Calyx, a scale, single, 

 rlv as in the scirpi, one-flowered, wedge-shaped, striated. 



t alved. membranaceous, shorter than the scale. 



v iow three. s ia three-deft. N 



without bristl a 



2. T. . . R. 



< fens from one to two feet high, three-sided. § ■ ■ » se- 

 vtial. terminal. Jmmlman t hree - lea ved. 



A native of moist rallies. 



Root fibrous. Culms erect, from one to two feel high, near- 

 Iv naked, three-sideil. smooth. L-.ivz< numerous, sheathing 

 half as long as the culm. lOead terminal, generally compos- 

 ed of about Bevel oval, sessile, closely imbricated Bf 



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