1^4 TRI ANURIA MONOGYN1A. SchceTlUS. 



Involucre two or three-leaved, very unequal, the largest from 

 five to eioht inches, the shortest one, or one and a half. Calyx 



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as in T. triceps, only sometimes three-lobed at the apex. The 

 rest as in T. triceps. 



3. T. diandra. R. 



Culms leafy, two or more feet high, three-sided; corymbs 

 terminal; involucres alternate. Flowers diandrous. Style 

 two-cleft. 



A stout, erect, smooth, long-leaved species ; a native of 

 Amboyna. 



Culm jointed, three-sided, smooth. Leaves one at each 

 joint, sheathing, rising much higher than the culm, linear, 

 smooth, acute, three-nerved, about three feet long. Corymbs 

 terminal, decompound or more. Involucres several, the larg- 

 est at the first division of the corymbs, and like the leaves of 

 the culm, but smaller; spikelets oval, minute, composed of 

 many small brown imbricated flowers as in the scripi. Calyx, 

 a glume, roundish, smooth. Corel j the two valves, small, 

 placed transversely with respect to the calyx, and smaller 

 than it. Filaments two, one rising laterally from the bosom 

 of each valve of the corol; anthers linear. Germ oblong-; 

 style deeply two-cleft. Seed oval, rather longer than the 

 calyx. i 



SCHCENUS. Schreb. gen. N. 92. 

 Calyx, or Corol, glumes several ; seed one, naked. 



1. S. articulatus. R. 



Culms three-sided, erect, from four to five feet high, joint- 

 ed, leafy. Corymbs terminal and axillary, compound and 

 decompound. Style undivided. Seed obovate, beset with 

 bristles, and crowned with the conic base of the style. 



Teliny. Konda-twngff. 



A native of marshy places up amongst the Circar moun- 



