SdrpUf. IRIANDRIA MONOSYNIA. 5JS 



— Involuceh consisting of a few chaffy, brown, subulate scales.— 

 Spikes very numerous, about three hues long, terminal, or lateral, 

 sessile, geminate, sometimes ternate; some single pedicelled ones are 

 crowded iu the centre of the general and partial umbels. — Scales 

 lanceolate, keeled, brown, with short subulate pomts; the lowermost 

 broader and sub-aristate, barren. — Ovarium linear, oblong, surround- 

 ed at the base by about twelve silvery, shining straight hairs, which 

 are twice as long as the scales. Slyk trifid, scabrous, shorter than 

 the hairs, 



Obs. This beautiful grass, which I have received both from Kat- 

 mandu and Gossein-Than, an uninhabited place at the foot of the 

 Hnnahfya mountains, from whence Mr. Gardner, the Honourable 

 Company's Resident at Nepalrt, has sent me the most rare plants, 

 comes near Sc. eriophorm and like that connects the genus Scirpus 

 with Eriop/iorum, It differs in its shorter and smaller stature, and 

 in having oblong sub-cylindric spikes. Perhaps it n only a variety 

 of that species. — N. W. 



48. 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. 



JBeug. Kesoor or Kesooree. 



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

 of fresh water, in flouer during the latter part of the rains. 



Root tuberous, with numerous ferruginous fibres. — Cm /ws straight, 

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

 and the angles very sharp, and backwardly hispid. — Leates se- 

 veral 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-decompound — Involucres about three, 

 very unequal, tlie largest from one to two feet long, and the shortest 

 as Biany inches j resembling tl^e leaves ia form. — Spikes ovate, 



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