522 



JEkgrav. Eottb. Gram. 15, t. 4, fig. 1. 



Spec. Chah. Culm slender: spikes in threes or fours, oblong, 

 sessile and peduncled : spikelets at first subulate, falcately recurved, 

 afterwards ovate-oblong, trigonal, erect, spreading, apex subulate 

 recurved: two lowest smaU. scales of tbe spikelets equal, ovate, 

 inferior one acute : involucre 2 — 4-leaved, longer than the umbel. 



Peninsula. 



(3) M. Etllingioibes. (Steudel.J 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 60. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, triquetrous, somewhat compressed, 

 J — 1-foot, striated, very smooth, leafy towards the base: leaves 

 flat, narrow, much shorter than the culm, very smooth : leaflets of 

 the involucre about 3, serrulate-scabrous, much longer than the 

 simple ovate-oblong capitulum : spikelets obliquely ovate, 1- 

 flowered: scales fertile and sterile combining at the base, many- 

 nerved, nerves coloured, keel green, bristlets remote 2 — 3, ending 

 at the apex into a recurved mucro : aohenium lenticular, roundish : 

 slightly striated and dotted. 



Neilgherries. 



(4) M. lEPTOCHiorDEs. f Steudel.) 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. p. 317. 



Spec. Chab. Culm obtusely triquetrous, smooth, 2-feet, long- 

 sheathed at the base : sheaths lax, membranaceous with a hyaline 

 margin, striated, smooth : leaves linear, almost equalling the culm, 

 scabrous at the edges: leaflets of the 3 — 5 -leaved iavolucre very 

 long, similar to the stem leaves, quite scabrous at the edge, many 

 times exceeding the compound umbel : rays 3 — 5, umbellulate at 

 the apex : involuoels equalling the raylets, very scabrous, spiculate 

 even to the base, thin : spikes imbricated, small, 2 — 3-flowered : 

 scales (lower ones shorter) oblong, acute; nerved, dirty brown, 

 greenish at the keel. 



Serampore, Bengal. 



GENTJS III. COUETOISIA. 



Triandvia Monogfynia,. Sex: Syst: 



Chab Gen. Spikes 1 — 2-flowered, compressed: scales 3 — 4, 

 lowest one small, channelled, empty, rest distichous, keeled and 

 boat-shaped, winged at the' keel, of these one empty : bristles and 

 smaU scales none : stamens 3 : style 3-cleft, pyramidate and 

 thickened at the base, continuous with the ovary : achenium lancco- 



