230 TRIANDR1A MONOGYNIA. SchpuS. 



44. So. anceps, R. 



Culm erect, twelve inches high, two-edged. Involucre 

 two-leaved, shorter than the super-decompound, four or five 

 times-divided umbel. 



Benfj. Joop?. 



A native of Bengal. 



45. Sc. Kysoor. R. 



Culms from five to six feet high, triangular, and hispid. 

 Umbel super-decompound. Spikes ovate. Seed oblong, 

 three-sided, crowned, and beset with five villous bristles. 



Benfj. Kesoor or Kesooree. 



Common in Bengal, growing on the borders of lakes, ponds, 

 &c. of fresh water, in flower during the latter part of the 

 rains. 



Root tuberous, with numerous ferruginous fibres. Culms 

 straight, from four to six feet high, three-angled, the sides 

 deeply grooved and the angles very sharp, and backwardly 

 hispid. Leaves several to each culm, and about their length, 

 sheathing at the base, above that part deeply channelled, 

 with the margins and keel while young, somewhat hispid, and 

 the points long and subulate. Umbel terminal, super-de- 

 compound. Involucre about three, very unequal, the larg- 

 est from one to two feet Jong, and the shortest as many 

 inches ; resembling the leaves in form. Spikes ovate, brown. 

 Scales roundish oval, concave, chaffy, brown, smooth ; the 

 rib or nerve ending in a subulate point beyond the rounded 

 apex. Stamens three on the exterior side of the genu, one- 

 bearded bristle between each filament, and three on the back, 

 making in all five. Germ novate. Style with swelled, per- 

 manent, cordate base. Stigma three-Heft. Seed oblong, 

 three-sided, surrounded by the five-bearded bristles. 



Obs. It approaches Sc. (jrossns. Vahl. emim. ii. 270 ; the 

 best marks to distinguish them by, are the bristles whirh em- 

 brace the germ, and continue with the seed; here they are 

 five in number and villous, there six, and barbed, or armed 



