Fuirena.] CYPERACEM. 1157 
2482, LIpOCcARPHA ARGENTEA R. Br.; F. B. I. vi. 667. Tunga 
levigata F. 1. i 
In all the provinces. 
A glabrous herb; stems 4-24 in. 
2483. ee SPHACELATA Kunth; F. B. I. vi. 667. Tunga 
triceps F. I, i. 183. 
Chota Nagas Behar ; W. Bengal. 
A glabrous Hiab stems 4—24 in. 
1043. Eriophorum Linn. 
Glabrous herbs; stems leafy only near the base ; leaves many, 
long, linear, Spikelets with many perfect flowers, in compound 
umbels. Glumes imbricate on all sides; hypogynous bristles 6, 
divided nearly to the base into erie comose pe ai nts. Stamens 
3 or 2 or 1, on the anterior side of the . Ovary ovoid; style 
slender, glabrous, usually short ; Same Fem 3, casually 2 
or 4, long. Frwit a sessile, trigonous, smooth, dusky nut with 
narrowed a 
2484, Bavomonoy comosum Wall; F. B. I. vi. 664; E. D. 
BR. 323, 
Chittagon, 
A robust, po oh herb. 
1044, Fuirena Rottb. 
nual or perennial, glabrous or pubescent, leafy herbs; leaves 
‘an lanceolate ; sheaths entire, with an annular membrane at 
the mouth. Sprkelets many-flowered, sessile, in dense, 
Peduncled, and terminal cluste ers; many flowers ¢. Glumes 
imbricate round the eae orbicular or obovate-oblong, mem- 
branous, with a stout, 3-veined ae farsi in a cusp or stout, 
Scabrid awn ; hypogynous Bis tles 3, min r 0; hypogynous 
scales 3, enclosing the nut, cad pase, eae 3-veined, 
glabrous or ciliate. Stamens 2-8. Ovary 8-gonous ; style slender ; 
stigmas 3. Fruit a trapezoid, trigonous nut, narrowed and stipi- 
tate below, with a long or short beak or cusp above, angles acute, 
sides smooth, pale; style finally deciduous. 
An nnual ; clusters of spikelets 1-3, approximate ; petals aig) Mince sub- 
quadrate h eads merata 
P €rennial, with creeping, woody, stoloniferous rhizome ; anal often 
Many, in an elongated panicle ; petals subsessile, oboveid sees embellata, 
