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than the ctilm : leaflets of the involucre bristly from a broader base, 

 many times shorter than the umbel : rays simple or 3-spiked at the 

 apex and then again iavolucelled : spikelets oblong, many-flowered : 

 scales brown-rusty, oblong, obtuse : style 3-cleft : achenium tri- 

 quetrous, slightly verrucose at the angles, white, 



Bengal. (?) 



(30) r. TEMEA. (SehuU.J 



Ident. Schult. Mant. II. 57. 



8yn. Scirpus teneUus, Roxh. — Trichelostylis terieUa, Wight 

 Contrih.p. 103. 



Spec. Chae. Culm filiform, angular, slightly compressed : 

 umbel sub-compound: rays 3 — 1-spiked: spikelets ovate-oblong, 

 middle one of the rays sessile, lateral ones long-pedimcled, patent : 

 scales ovate, acute vnth a mucronule, keeled, glandular-dotted, 

 brownish: caryopsis obovate, obtusely 3-comered, coarsely tubercled, 

 white : involucre 2 — 3-leaved, much shorter than the umbel : 

 leaves linear-filiform, and with the culm scabrous at the apex. 



Peninsula. 



GENUS II. ABILGAAEDIA. 

 Triandpia Mono^ynia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. Named after Professor AbUgaard, of Copenhagen. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes many-flowered : scales distichous, fructi- 

 ferous ones bifarious by the twisting of the rhacheola, keeled, 

 deciduous, very few of the lower ones empty : bristles and calycine 

 scales none : stamens 1 — 3 : style 3-cleft, pyramidately thickened 

 at the base, articulated with the ovary, deciduous : achenium some- 

 what pear-shaped, triangular or trigonal, umbonate. — Culms leafy 

 at the base, seldom leafless : spikes solitary, twin, tern, congested 

 in heads or umbelled : umbel simple or supra-decompound. 



(1) A. MONOSIACHTA. fVahl.J 



Ident. Vahl. Enum. II. 296. 



Syn. Cyperus monostachyus, Linn. Eottb. — A. EottboeUiana, 

 Wight Contrib. p. 95. — Scirpus Schaenoides, JRoxb. — C. Cariboeus et 

 Indicus, Pers. Syn. I. 65. — A. Indica, JSTees ab. Usenb. in lAnnoea 

 ix. 289. 



Migrm. Eottb. Gram. 18, t. 13, fig. 3. 



