ed.^^ikes very minute. —Scales oval, conczve. ^Stamens solitary. 

 — %/e two-cleft.— SeW obcordale, a little compressed, striated 

 longitudinally, and wrinkled transversely, 



46. Sc. anceps. R. 



Culm erect, twelve inches high, two-edged. Iittolncre two-leav- 

 ed, shorter than the super-decompound, four or five times-divided 

 umbel. 



Beng. Joopi. 



A native of Bengal. 



47. Sc. comosiis. Wall. 



Glaucous. Leaves, radical, together with those of the involucrum* 

 very long, channelled, ending in a triangular capillary acumen. 

 Co/-3^w6 super-decompound, nodding. Spi/ces geminate or ternate, ses- 

 •ile, oblong, crowned with the long straight silvery hairs of the seeds. 



A native of Nepala, where it is found among rocks during the 

 rains. 



Root fibrous — Culms many, tufted, erect, from six to twelve, or 

 more inches long, very slender, scarcely thicker than a crow-quill,, 

 ©bscurely three-cornered, smooth, naked. — Leaves radical, numerous,, 

 embracing the base of the culm with their short brownish, membra- 

 naceous sheaths, which burst on one side ; generally twice as long as 

 the culm, very narrow, slightly keeled, channelled above, the margins 

 ^nd keel scabrous, ending in a long three-cornered point. — Corymb< 

 terminal unilateral and slightly nodding, composed of about twelve 

 miequal, slendc'-, somewiuit ilattened, smooth rays from three to six. 

 inches long, surrounded at the base with a short, brown, narrow,, 

 two-keeled ochrea ; ihey end in partial, more or less compound um- 

 bellets, consisting in general of four or five simple or divided short 

 capillary peduncles-. — Livolucrum consisting of five very long leaves^ 

 resembling the radical ones, but somewhat broader at their base, 

 embracing the apex of the culm with their brown, membrane-wingj- 

 ed inscttioas j the largest measuring from twelve to eighteen incite.?* 



