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the culm : leaflets of the involucre unequal, longer ones exceeding 

 the umhel, similar to the stem leaves, narrower ones (2 — 3) shorter 

 than the umbel : rays of the umhel unequal, very short, all spicu- 

 late at the apex, sometimes furnished at the base with minute 

 bristly invoiuoels : spikekta thin, somewhat compressed, and 

 loosely many-flowered, upper ones oblong-ovate, slightly obtuse, 

 somewhat lightly 5-nerved, rusty-yeUowish, much larger than the 

 acheninm. 



Bengal. 



OENJJS II. MAEISCUS. 



Tviandria lllonog'ynia. Sex Syst: 



Deriv. From a Celtic term, signifying a Marsh, in allusion to 

 the habitat of the species. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes 1 — 2, seldom 3 — 5-flowered : scales dis- 

 tichous, lower ones empty : bristles and small scales none : stamens 

 3 : ovary triangular : style 3-cleft, deciduous : achenium triangular, 

 received into the cavity of the rhacheola, often mucronulate. — ^Culms 

 triangular, leafy at the hase : capitules or compound spikes, some- 

 times solitary, sometimes fasoiculately congested, or arranged by 

 umbels. 



(1) M. inoELiATTrs. fVahl.J 



Idmt. Vahl. Enum. II. 376.— Wight Contrib. p. 90. 



Syn. Seirpus cyperoides, Linn. Mont. 181. — KyUingia umbellata, 

 Linn. Su^pl. Roxh. — K. Sumatrensis, Ret%. ohs. iv. 13. — ^M. 

 cyperinus, Wight I. c. — M. pictus, Wight I. c. 



Engrcm. Eheede Mai. xii. t. 63. — Rottb. Gram. 15, t. 4, fig. 2. 



Spec. Chab. Culm glabrous : leaves longer than the culm, 

 membranaceous, scabrous at the margin and keel : spikes compound, 

 11 — 16, unequally peduncled and sessile, umbelled : involucre 

 many-leaved, very long^: proper spikes very closely congested, 

 fructiferous ones much spreading and reflexed, linear-lanceolate, 1- 

 (rarely 2 — 3)-flowered : scales eUiptic, rounded at the apex, 

 muticous : achenium oblong, slightly curved internally, shorter than 

 the scale. 



Peninsula. 



(2) M. PANicETTs. (lAnk. ?J 

 Ident. Link Hort. Berol. I. 323.— "Wight Contrib. p. 89. 

 Syn. M. biglumis, Gesrtn. — Kyllingia panicea, Linn. Szeppl. 105. 



