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respect to the calyx, and smaller than it — Filaments two, oim 

 rising laterally from the bosom of each valve of the corof ; an* 

 t hers liriQ^r. Ce/m oblong, sti/le deeply two-cleft. Seed owa], 

 rather longer than the calyx. 



SCHCEyUS. Sckreb. Gen. N. 92. 

 Calyx, or Corol, glumes several; seed one, naked. 



1. S. articulatus. R. 



Culms three-sided, erect, from four to five feet high, jointed, leafy. 

 Corymbs terminal and axillary, con)pound and decompound. Stt/fe 

 undivided. Seed obovate, hbSct wiih bristles, and crowned with the 

 conic base of the S^j//e. 



Tei'ing. Konda-tuiiga. 



A native of marshy places up amongst the Circar mountains. It 

 may be referred to Vahl.'s Rynchospora Enum. Fl. 2. 229- 



Culms erect, three-sided, leafy, jonited, smooth, from four to five 

 feet high, angles sharp, between the joints fistulous.— ieaies of the 

 root as long as the culm, smooth, except that the marg^ps are a 

 little hispid, slender considering their great length, those of the culm 

 from five to eight, sheathing, shorter than those of the root. — Um» 

 bels the terminal one decompound, those only from the exterior ax- 

 ils compound. — Involucre of the terminal urnbel, from three to 

 four-leaved, about as long as the umbel, leaf like; the axillary uni- 

 bels have no involucre, or, at most, a very trifling one. — Flowers 

 sub-solitary, chesnut-coloured. — C(Jyx nuue. Corol; petals four. 

 Style undivided, with a permanent conical base. — Sligma entire, 

 acute. Bristles, six permanent ones suirounding the germ.—Seed 

 a little compressed, crowned Widi a lar^e brown, spongy, conical 

 body, the base of the style. 



Obs. Tlrere is frequently a very slender male flower within the 

 large or inner glume of the corol ; it consists of one glume or scale, 

 and three stamens. The plant is so very coarse that cattle will not 

 eat it. 



