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(1) E. SETACETJM. (Lynn.) 

 Linn. spec. 129. — ^Mart. in Wall. pi. As. rar. III. 29, 

 Byn. EandaHa Malabarica, Petim. Gaaophyl. t. 33,^. 10, 

 JEkgrm. Eheede Mai. xii. t. 68. 



Spec. Chae. Stem simple, elongated, submersed, very densely 

 leafy : leaves capiUaceous, bi-fistular, pellucid, peduncles and sheaths 

 glabrous, the latter much shorter than the leaf, the former 6- 

 furrowed : heads of flowers glabrous : involucratiug bracts broadly 

 ovate, round at the top, floral ones short-aoumiaate : male flowers 

 hexandrous, females trigynous. 



Bengal. Peninsula. Elowering in the raius. 



(2) E. Hamiltonianxtm. (Mart.) 



Ident. Mart. 1. c. p. 29. 



Spec. Chab. Glabrous : scapes striated : leaves Hnear-lanceolate 

 acuminate, much smaller than the scapes : heads of flowers globose, 

 shining, testaceous, glabrous : bracts oblong, involucral ones slightly 

 obtuse, inner ones shortly mucronulate : female calyces scarcely 

 broader than the corollas. 



Goalpara. 



(3) E. hvzxrLXFOJAVM.. (Mart.) 



Ident. Mart. 1. c. p. 28. 



Spec. Chab. Rhizome perpendicular, short, simple, with a leafy 

 apex : leaves sub-ensiform Huear, narrow-acute, pellucid, glabrous, 

 exceeding the' sheaths : pedimcles 5-furrowed, glabrous : heads of 

 flowers whitish villous : involucral bracts obovate, rounded at the 

 apex, floral ones spathulate, acute : male flowers hexandrous, 

 female ones trigynous. 



Silhet. 



(4) E. AKGENTEm. (M.Wtt.) 



Ident. Mart. 1. c. p. 28. 



Spec Chak. Stemless : leaves linear from a broad base, narrow 

 acute, not pellucid, stiffish, densely beset above with very short 

 adpressed hairs, exceeding the glabrous sheaths : peduncles 6- 

 furrowed : heads of flowers snow-white villous : involucral bracts 

 obovate, round at the top, floral ones acuminate : male flowers 

 hexandrous, female trigynous. 



Bengal in rice-fiolds. 



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