Tunga, XRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 187 



unequal ; the largest leaf often as long as the culm ; partial, none. 

 Calyx and corol, &c. as in the genus. Seeds three-sided. 



Obs. As this plant \vants the partial involucre it may be K. s«- 

 matrensis of Retzius. 



4. K. cypercides. R. 



Culms iruin six to eight inches high, three-sided. Umbel com- 

 pound, consisting of gloL>ular heads of numerous spikelets, involucre 

 three-leaved, iiecd oblong, three-sided. 



An elegant cyperus looking small species, a native of moist pas- 

 ture ground. 



Root fibrous.— Cm/wis erec% two-thirds naked, from six to eight 

 inches high, three-sided, smooth. — Leaves sheathing, as long as the 

 culm. Involucre; universal, three-leaved, very unequal, the largest 

 leaf being as long as the culm, and the smallest cue inch, parlial, 

 minute.— Cali/x, corol, &c. as in the genus, excepting that there are 

 sometimes two llov/ers in the same calyx, 



TUNG A. R. 



Anient ovate, imbricated on all sides. Calyx one-valved, one- 

 iiowered. Corol tvvo-valved. S)ied naked. 



The plants which come under this definition I cannot by any 

 means reconcile to the character of 6VA«/?//s, nor indeed to any genus 

 known to me. I have therefore constituted a new one of them, un- 

 der the Telinga name Tunga, which is applied to the whole family 

 of Calamaria. Linn. Cyperoidea. Juss. This genus is probably the 

 same as Vahl's Hypaelyptum. 



1 . T. triceps. R. 



Culms from lour to eight inches high, a little compressed ; spikes 

 two or three, terminal ; involucre two-leaved. 



A native of Curomande!, growing with other cyperi. 



Root fibrous. — Culms erect, mostly naked, from four to eight in- 

 ches high, a little compressed, smooth. — Leaves sheadiing, broad, 



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