028 TRIANDR1A MONOGYNIA. ScirpUS, 



Spikes sessile, or pedunclcd, oval, rust-coloured, many-fiW- 

 ered. Scales broad, a little pointed, very concave. Stamens 

 two or three. Style enlarged at the base, broad, with hairy 

 margins. Stigma two-cleft. Seed obcordate, compressed, 

 pearl-coloured, striated, without bristles. 



40. S. complanatus. Vahl. enum. ii. 279. Retz. Obs. 5. 14. 



Culms sub-erect, from one to two feet high, edged. Umbel 

 from compound to super decompound. Involucre two-leav- 

 ed, erect; scales lanceolate. Seed obcordate, dotted. 



Hind. Kmatiya JMvam. 



A native of moist or wet places. 



Root fibrous. Culms nearly erect, but waving a little, 

 from one to two feet high, naked except at the base, compress- 

 ed, two-edged; edges sharp, and turned different ways, 

 striated, smooth, often a little twisted. Leaves radical, or em- 

 bracing the base of the culm, nearly as long as the culm, linear, 

 waved, often a little twisted, apex abrupt. Umbel super- 

 decompound, dense. Involucre two-leaved, opposite, erect, 

 unequal, the longest about the length of the umbel. Inuolu- 

 cels chaffy, ending like bristles. Spike* sessile, or short- 

 pedicelled, oblong, few-flowered. Scales rust- coloured, acute. 

 Seeds obcordate, rugose, white. 



41. S. tetragonus. R. % 



Culms from one to two feet high, four-angled. Umbel de- 

 compound and super-decompound. Involucre and involucels 

 bristly ; scales roundish, diandrous. Seed round. 



Hind. B?/m JMvani. 



Teliny. Murcushalee. 



Grows with the other species on moist pasture ground. 



Root fibrous. Culms nearly erect, from one to two feet 

 high, naked, except at the base, four-sided, smooth. Leaves 

 radical, and about the base of the culm, bifarious, tapering, 

 nearly as long as the culm. Umbel super-decompound, ra- 

 ther thin, and of an irregular form. Involucre and involu- 



