531 



Sym. Scirpus comosus, Eoxh. — E. arundinaceum, iV. ah E. I. e. 

 p. m. — S. elongatus, Ham. in Bon. prod. 40. 



Spec. Chae. Root fibrous : culms csespitose, erect, round, 

 trigonous above, smooth : leaves rigid, narrow, keeled, folded, 

 3 -cornered at the apex, rough on the margin, twice as long as 

 the culm : involucre very long, about 5 -leaved : corymb supra- 

 decompound, umbellate : scales ovate-oblong, mucronate, 1 -nerved, 

 somewhat keeled and convex. 



Ravines in the Western Decoan, near looneer. 



GENUS IX. EUIRENA. 

 Triandrla Monogrynla. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. In honour of J. Euiren, a Danish botanist. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes many-flowered: scales everywhere imbri- 

 cated, very few of the outer ones empty : calyx, of 3 small scales 

 alternating with the angles of the ovary, commonly with as many 

 bristles between, increasing and persistent in fruit : stamens 3 : 

 style 3-cleft : achenium triangular, mucronate or beaked with the 

 persistent base of the style, covered by small scales and persistent 

 small bristles. — Culm 3^5-angled : spikes solitary, in threes or 

 capitate-congested, axillary and terminal, sometimes arranged as 

 umbels: scales convex, mucronate or awned below the rounded 

 apex, membranaceous, externally pubescent or hirsutely-pilose, 

 commonly greenish azure above. 



(1) F. "Wallichiajta. (Wall.) 



Ident. Wall. Cat. No. 3545.— Kunth 1. c. p. 182. 



Spec. Chas. Culms acutely triangular, villous at the apex: 

 sheaths triangular, glabrous : leaves slightly rigid, scabrous at the 

 margin : spikes somewhat in fours, glomerately congested at the top 

 of the culm, ovate, acute : scales mucronate and keeled, 3-nerved, 

 pubescent : smaU scales and bristles none : ovary attenuated and 

 somewhat beaked at the apex, glabrous. 



Hurdwar. 



(2) E. GtoMEHATA. (Lam.) 



Ident. Lam. 111. I. 150.— Yahl. 



Syn. Scirpus ciliaris, Idnn. Mont. 182. — F. Rottboellii, Wivht 

 Contrib. p. 94. 

 Emrm. Kottb. gram. 5.5 t. ,17. 



