572 MONOECIA TRIANDKIA. CuveX. 



Germ oblong-, roiiml it are three short, abortive stamina. 

 Style two cleft. Male flowers threefold, the two lateral 

 ones sessile, the middle one pedicelled, all have a two-valved 

 calyx with two-valved flowers in each. Seed turbinate, 

 smooth, of a dull pearl colour, the size of a pea. 



5. C. keteroclita. R. 



Erect, Famous, hairy. Spikes terminal, single, or paired, 

 when two one is male, the olher androg-ynous, with a jointed 

 rachis and the five or six female flowers thereof bracted. 



A native of fheeastern partsof Bengal, where it flowers and 

 ripens its seed toward the close of the rains. It is the smallest 

 of the five species, being only about two, or at most three 

 feet high, but very ramous. 



6. C. pnmila. R. 



Leaven bifarious, linear-lanceolar, smooth. Peduvcte ter- 

 minal, naked, and not jointed. Male spikes with from three 

 to four pairs of flowers ', female corol five-valved, ovate. 



Introduced from the Mauritius into the Botanic garden 

 where it grows to be about eighteen inches high, every part 

 smooth, leaves nearly as long as the culms. 



CJREX. Schreh. gen. N. 1407- 

 Ament imbricated on all sides, with one-flowered scales. 

 Corol none. Male calyx, the superior scales of the ament. 

 Corol none. Female calyx, the inferior scales of the ament. 

 Corol flask-shaped, permanent, one-flowered. Stigma from 

 two to three. Seed solitary, three-sided, enclosed in the per- 

 manent corol. 



1. C. Bengalensis. R. 



Spikes sessile, androgynous, below female. Panicles axil- 

 lary, and terminal, long-ped uncled, ovate, dense; sca/es ovate, 

 acute; seed three-cornered, within the ribbed, permanent, 

 flask-shaped corol. 



