Scfei'iff. MONOECIA TRIANDUIA. 573 



A native of Silliet, and the only species I have ever met 

 wilh in India. The culms are Ions', slender, smooth, and 

 three sided, leaves very long and slender with a sheathing tu- 

 bular base. 



SCLERIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1408. 

 jyia/e spikelets imbricated, many-flowered. Female flow- 

 em soWtAvy, or with one or two male ones in the same two to 

 six-valved calyx. Coro/ three-parted. Seed o\ nut g\oh\x\QX . 



1. S. hi flora. R. 



Culm three sided, leafly. Leaves ensiform, smooth. Pa- 

 nicles axillary and ternn'nal, contracted. Flowers of both 

 six-pedicelled. Female calyx two-flowered, one of them 

 male. 



A native of Bengal. Flowers durincf the rains. 



Root of numerous, rust-coloured fibres. Culms from 

 one to two feet long, leafy, smooth, three-sided with the an- 

 gles sharp. Leaves very numerous, shorter than the culms, 

 sheatliing-, sword-shaped, much keeled, smooth. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, small. Male .s/)?A:e/c7s short-pedicel- 

 led, oblong, imbricated with oblong concave scales, the low- 

 er two or three abortive, and may be called a common calyx ; 

 the rest containing three stamens each; beside these there 

 are some others which embrace the base of each pedicel like 

 the perechetitirn of Hypnum, Filaments permanent, form- 

 ing a pencil from the spires of the spikelets. Anthers li- 

 near, incumbent, caducous. Female floavers short-pedi- 

 celled, with scales at the base of the pedicels as in the male. 

 Calyx three-valved, two-flowered, one of which is a small 

 male corollet with a two-valved corol, and three stamens. 

 Coro/ of the female flower, small, three-paited ; divisions 

 acute. Germ round. Style single. Stiymas three. Peri- 

 carp ; nut globular, wrinkled, villous. 6'eerf solitary, in the 

 . cavity of the nut. 



