566 MONOECIA TRIANDRIA, Tl/phn. 



3. L. cruciata. R. 



Leaves petioled, lanceolate, proliferous, flat on both sides. 

 Root solitary or wanting". 



Found in Bengal, and generally under the surface of the 

 water in tanks, in most extensive interwoven masses. 



MONOECIA TRIANDRIA. 



TYPHA. Schreb. gen. N. 1401. 



Jtfa/ett/new? cylindric, compact. Perion^A filiform. Corol 

 none. Female ament cylindric, beneath that of the male. 

 Penan/A of several fine filaments. Coro/ none. Seed one. 



1. T. elephantina. Roxb. 



Leaves ensiform, obtuse, flat on the inside, the length of the 

 stems. Male ament from two to three inches above the fe- 

 male. Pi/amewis solitary, with from one to three anthers; 

 neuter corollets mixed with the fertile female ones. 



Beng. Hogla. 



Telhig. Emiga Junum. 



Elephant grass. 



It grows in standing sweet water, or sIoav running rivers 

 and brooks, which do not dry up during the hot season. 

 Flowers during the wet and cold seasons. 



Root stoloniferous, perennial. Culms straight, round, 

 smooth, glossy, jointed at the insertion of the leaves, and in- 

 volved, except near the ament, in their sheaths, the naked 

 part near the ament is about the thickness of a common black 

 lead pencil ; substance spongy, from six to twelve feet high. 

 Leaves long, ensiform, very smooth in every part, below near 

 the sheath a little convex on the outside and concave within, 

 from four to six feet long above the sheaths, and three quar- 

 ters of an inch broad; sheath smooth, embracing the culm, 

 and the sheaths of the inner leaves. Male ament from two to 

 three inches above i\\e female one and terminating the culm, 

 cylindric, about a foot long and scarcely as thick as the litde 



