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24. Schoenus Cyperoides. Culm three-sided, leafy; umbel 

 terminating ; spikelets glomerate. Native of Jamaica. 



25. Schoenus Cymosus. Culm three-sided, leafy; umbel 

 terminating, compound ; spikelets ovate, striated, glomerate. 

 Native of North America. 



26. Schcenus Glomeratus; Cluster -headed Bog Rush. Culm 

 three-sided, leafy; flowers in bundles; leaves flat; peduncles 

 lateral, in pairs. Native of Jamaica and North America. 



27. Schoenus Cladium. Culm bluntly three-sided, leafy, 

 even ; leaves prickly in front ; panicles diffused ; spikelets 

 one-flowered, sessile, two-stamined. Native of the sea- 

 marshes in Jamaica. 



28. Schoenus Effasus. Culm leafy, bluntly three-sided, 

 even ; leaves prickly in front; panicles more erect; spikelets 

 one-flowered, sessile, two-stamined. Native of Jamaica, and 

 found also in the sea-marshes of Vera Cruz. 



29. Schoenus Restioides. Culms at the bottom compressed, 

 ancipital, and very smooth ; flowers panicled ; sheath lance- 

 olate at the top. This approaches very near to this genus, 

 but still is so singular, and so different in habit, that it might 

 make a distinct genus if sufficient characters could be found. 

 Native of the West Indies. 



30. Schcenus Sunnamensis ; Surinam Bog Rush. Culm 

 leafy, three-sided; peduncles corymbed, the lower ones alter- 

 nate, distant, the upper ones crowded. Native of Jamaica, 

 Surinam, the East Indies, and China. 



31. Schcenus Thermalis; Warm-bath Sag Rush. Culm 

 three-sided, leafy; heads lateral compound, subsessile; leaves 

 ensiform, keeled. Native of the Cape. 



32. Schoenus Lsevis. Culm triangular, leafy ; heads lateral ; 

 glumes mucronate; spikes ovate. Native of the Cape. 



33. Schoenus Lanceus. Culm three-cornered, leafy; spikes 

 panicled, lateral; glumes and spikelets lanceolate. Native of 

 the Cape. 



34. Schoenus Albus ; White-headed Bog Rush. Culm 

 three-sided, leafy, very long, filiform ; spikes lateral, pedun- 

 cled ; leaves bristle-shaped, channelled ; stamens two ; seed 

 beaked, with ten bristles at the base. Root perennial, creep- 

 ing. Native of the bogs of Europe. Found in England near 

 Gamlingay park in Cambridgeshire ; on Ampthill moor, and 

 at Potton andAspley,in Bedfordshire; in the Felthorpe bogs, 

 and nearliaydon in Norfolk; upon Birmingham heath; in the 

 New Forest; upon Bagshot heath; between Wickham and 

 Croydon in Surry ; near Tunbridge in Kent ; in Cornwall, 

 Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Scotland. 



35. Schoenus Gracilis ; Slender Bog Rush. Culm three- 

 sided, leafy, very lon^, filiform ; spikes lateral, peduncled. 

 Native of woods on the highest mountains of Jamaica. 



36. Schoenus Setaceus; Brittle-stalked Bug Rush. Culm 

 three-sided, almost naked ; leaves bristle-shaped ; spikelets 

 aggregate; flowers two-stamined. Native of tlie dry pastures 

 in the West Indies. 



37. Schoenus Pusillus ; Dwarf Bog Rush. Culm three- 

 sided, naked, filiform ; spikelets terminating, subfascicled, 

 sessile, with a leaflet beneath equalling the spike. Found 

 in the southern parts of Jamaica. 



38. Schoenus Capillaris. Culm three-sided, naked, capil- 

 lary ; leaves capillary ; spikelets fascicled, reflex, invo- 

 lucred; involucret two-leaved. It flowers in spring. Native 

 of Hispaniola. 



Schoepjia ; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix : perianth incrust- 

 ing the germen at the bottom, turbinate, angular, indistinctly 

 five- toothed. Corolla: one-petalled, bell-shaped, ten-grooved 

 at the base, five-cleft; segments triangular, acute, reflexed. 

 Stamina : filamenta five, very short; antherse twin, erect, in 



the mouth of the corolla. Pistil : germen turbinate, half in- 

 ferior, within the corolla, crowned with a semiglobular, porous 

 gland; style shorter than the corolla, cylindrical, erect; 

 stigma capitate, trifid. Pericarp : drupe with three cells, 

 but only one nut. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER, Calix: dou- 

 ble; ou-ter bifid, inferior ; inner superior, quite entire. Co- 

 ro/Za: bell-shaped. Stigma: capitate. Drupe: one-seeded. 

 The only known species is, 



1. Schcepfia Americana. Leaves petioled, alternate, ovate, 

 very smooth, attenuated, blunt, quite entire; peduncles axil- 

 lary, often in pairs, one-flowered, but sometimes two or three 

 flowered. A small tree, eight or ten feet in height, with round 

 smooth branches. Native of Santa Cruz and Montserrat. 



Scholia; a genus of the class Decandria, order Monogynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one-leafed, 

 coloured, permanent; tube turbinate, subcompressed, fleshy; 

 border half five-cleft ; segments ovate, concave, blunt, erect, 

 equal. Corolla : petals five, placed on the tube of the calix, 

 oblong, concave, blunt, erect, equal, lying over each other at 

 the sides, sessile, twice as long as the segments of the calix. 

 Stamina : filamenta ten, awl-shaped, erect, a little longer 

 than the petals, inserted in a ring into the tube of the calix ; 

 antherse oblong, incumbent. Pistil: germen oblong, com- 

 pressed, pedicelled ; style filiform, length of the stamina ; 

 stigma simple, blunt. Pericarp : legume, pedicelled. Seeds: 

 two. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calix: tubular, five-cleft. 

 Petals: five, inserted into the calrx, closed by the sides lying 

 over each other. Legume: pedicelled. The species are, 



1. Scholia Speciosa. Leaves pinnate, of from seven to ten 

 pair of oval-lanceolate pointed leaflets ; stipules awl-shaped. 

 A tufted evergreen shrub, about three feet high, of handsome 

 growth, with round, rigid, diffused branches ; flowers in a 

 cluster, of a bright pink or scarlet colour. Native of Sene- 

 gal, and of the Cape. For its culture, see Guiacum Afrum. 



2. Scholia Tamarindifolia. Leaves pinnate, of from eight 

 to ten pair of oval, rather obtuse leaflets, rather gibbous on 

 the upper side at the base. In habit this species greatly re- 

 sembles the preceding. Native of the Cape. 



3. Scholia Stipulala. Leaves pinnate, of five pair of oval, 

 acute, pointed leaflets ; slipules deeply divided into two seg 

 menls.- Nalive of the Cape. 



Schradera ; a genus of the class Hexandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. .Calix: a superior rim, 

 quite entire, closely surrounding the base of the corolla. 

 Corolla : thick, one-petalled ; tube half an inch long, gradu- 

 ally widening upwards, within smooth below, hairy above; 

 border five or six parted ; segments fleshy, lanceolate, a litlle 

 reflexed, above lowards the throat flat, in front triangular, 

 on the compressed sides keeled, at the base of the keel a 

 triangular fleshy toothlet, beneath flat. Stamina: filamenta 

 scarcely any ; antheree five or six, linear, between the seg- 

 ments of the border, three times shorter than the border. 

 Pistil: germen inferior, four-cornered at the base, the sides 

 a little pressed in the corners, acute ; style one, shorter than 

 the tube of the corolla; sligmas two, thick, oblong. Peri- 

 carp: berry four-celled. &eds: very many, minute. ESSEN- 

 TIAL CHARACTER. Calix: a superior rim, quite entire. 

 Corolla : five or six cleft. Stigmas : two. Berry : four- 

 celled, many-seeded; or, according to Willdenow, Involucre 

 Universal: many-flowered. Calix: superior, pitcher-shaped. 

 Corolla: five or six cleft, bell-shaped, hairy at the throat. 

 Berry : many-seeded. The species are, 



1. Schradera Capitala. Involucre toothed; calix quite 

 entire; leaves blunt; flowers in heads. This is a climbing 

 parasitical shrub, with square grayish branches. Native of 

 Montserrat. 



