1134 BENGAL PLANTS. [Rynehospora. 
; hypogynous bristles 0 or 6, rarely fewer, scabrid, with 
aa teeth. Stamens 1-3; anthers linear. Ovary rounded ; 
style slender, glabrous, with aul base; stigmas 2. Fruit an 
ovoid or subglobose, turgidly 2-convex, smooth or transversely 
ed nut, crowned by the conical, much enlarged, often very 
long and persistent style-base. 
Spikelets in a single terminal head ; leaves all basal ........- Wallichiana. 
Spikelets in paniculately disposed corym 
Corymbs several, close, with many iidd - aurea. 
Corymbs few, loose, with few ibaris Hookeri. 
2378. Ryncnospora WALLICcHIANA Kunth; F. B. I. vi. 668. 
K. Bengal. 
A tufted herb, ‘5-2 feet high. 
2379. RyncHospora AUREA Vahl; F. B. I. vi. 670. Schoenus 
articulatus F. I. i. 184. 
N. Bengal ; C. "Bengal Chittagong. 
A stout herb, 2-3 feet high. 
2380. RyncHospora Hooxert Boeck.; F. B. I. vi. 671. 
S 
- Bengal; E. Bengal. 
A slender herb, 1-2 feet high. 
1031. Cladium P. Br. 
Stout, perennial herbs, glabrous or with minutely hairy inflores- 
cence; stems round or ia ie leafy or leafless; leaves when 
resent sae ant or tri rigonous near the apex or flat. shine 
im 
usually 2-8, empty, often smaller than the following 1-3, wit 
perfect flowers ; uppermost glumes male or sterile; eager 
bristles slender, small or obsolete. Stamens 8 or 2. Ovary 
globose; style linear; base dilated; stigmas 3, long. Fruit a 
small nut; style-base fused with its atest beak large pyt@ 
midal, or small umbonate, or indistin 
2381. ARIUM Be 
vi. 675. 
Sundribuns. 
A stout herb; stems 6 feet high. 
nth: var. crassa Clarke; F. B. i : 
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