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shaped, mucronate, upper 5, lower 7-nerved: stamens 2 : achenium 

 obovate-elliptic, compressed, rounded at . the apex, pointed, straw- 

 white, a half shorter than the scale. 



Lower Eengal. 



GENUS V. EEMIEEA. 

 Trlandvla aSonoerynla. Sex: Si/st: 



Deriv. Its name in Guiana. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes 1 -flowered : scales about four, distichously 

 imbricated, broadly ovate, convex, three lower ones gradually 

 shorter, empty, obtuse, terminal one acutely mucronate, fertile: 

 bristles and small scales none : stamens 3 : style 3-cleft, equal at 

 the base : achenium trigonal, mucronate with the persistent base of 

 the style, located in the terminal thickened tuberous hollow joint of 

 the rhaoheola and wrapped roiind with scales. — Maritime plants : 

 culms branched, creeping, branches erect, densely leafy everywhere : 

 leaves stiff, channelled, patent: capitules terminal, 1-— 3, conglo- 

 merated from numerous imbricated spikes, involuorated with many 

 leaves. 



(1) E. PEDTTNCULATA. ^E. Br.) 



Ident. E. Brown prod. 236.— Kunth 1. c. p. 139. 

 Syn. E. Wightiana, N. ah. M in Wight Contrib. p. 92. 

 Spec. Chak. Capitules peduncled. 

 Peninsula. 



SECTIOIV II. SCIRPEJEi. 



GENUS. VI. ELEOCHAEIS. 



Vriandria Monog'ynla. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Helos, a marsh, and Chmro, I delight, alluding to 

 the habitat of the species. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes many- seldom few -flowered : scales imbri- 

 cated on all sides, conforming, very few of the lower ones empty : 

 calyx — bristles six", more or less, very frequently retrorsely hispid, 

 very seldom none : stamens three : siyle 3- seldom 2-cleft, dilated 

 at the base : achenium triangular or lenticular, crowned with the 

 persistent base of the style. — Culms sheathed, leafless, 1-spiked. 



